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This kinda almost makes it sound like VisiOn introduced Gates to the GUI which is not true. They were already using and developing for Macintosh machines at Mic
by wewewedxfgdf 2mo ago
This kinda almost makes it sound like VisiOn introduced Gates to the GUI which is not true. They were already using and developing for Macintosh machines at Microsoft and had hired Charles Simonyi from PARC with his expertise in GUI systems before Comdex 1982.
The story seems to be more that seeing VisiOn gave MS the nudge to get into action on the GUI due to a sense of competition/urgenbcy from VisiOn rather than learning about the GUI from VisiOn.
- walrus01 2mo agoStories about Xerox PARC aside, the Apple Lisa was released to the market at the end of January 1983, and I would be surprised if Microsoft wasn't big enough/rich enough at that point to acquire at least a couple of units from the very first batch to mess around with. Windows 1.0 RTM was November 1985.
- pjmlp 2mo agoXenix supported the Lisa, and Excel was born on the Mac Classic.
- reactordev 2mo agoMicrosoft was big enough as they were already selling DOS and DOS software.
- cmrdporcupine 2mo agoThe world of computers was much smaller then. Everyone motivated enough knew what everyone else was doing.