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THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL

THOMAS MCDONALD

THE LIST

9 Things Microsoft Got Right

THE LIST

9 Things Microsoft Got Right

THE LIST

Bringing Internet multiplayer to the

mainstream is a massive gaming

accomplishment.

XBOX LIVE

7

SUPPORTING

LEGACY

DEVICES AND

APPS AT ALL

COSTS

4

PUSHING MINSPEC

HARDWARE

Each version of Windows brings a new

baseline hardware spec for developers to

build against, forcing change and ensuring

progress.

2

THE “MOSTLY

OPEN” PLATFORM

It’s not open source, but Windows’s

well-documented APIs foster application

development.

3

5

MOUSE AS A BIZ

TOOL

Prior to Windows 3.x, the mouse was a

fringe tool for Mac users and other hippies.

6

BRINGING TCP/IP

TO THE MASSES

Bundling TCP/IP (and a fully fl edged web

browser) with Windows 95 made the Internet

accessible to people who wouldn’t pay

$100-plus for Win3.1 TCP/IP stacks.

MAINSTREAMING THE PC

PCs used to be expensive and hard to use. Thanks to

Windows’s least-common-denominator approach, we

now have ubiquitous, inexpensive computers.

1

8

DIRECTX

Remember

Dos4gw?

So do we.

CHURROS: CHEWY.

9 CINNAMONY. DELICIOUS.

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So do we.

CINNAMONY. DELICIOUS.

Photo thanks to Star5112http://tinyurl.com/4v5mof