Microsoft twenty-five years
Bill Gates
Forehead
I am always amazed to us so far.
Microsoft's story begins in 1975. At that time, my friend Paul? Allen and I saw an article describing the "Personal Computer" of MITS Altair 8800 in "Popular Electronics). Altair is very different from the large machine us used at that time. This is something that is ready to be assembled for computer enthusiasts - it is not fully assembled when mapping, just some discrete and a copy of the copy. After a few days (or few weeks) soldering, assembly can finally complete this size-like bread box, computer with several row switches and flicker indicators. It is largely ornamental, almost impossible to take any substantive work, of course, now we know that Altair has set off a revolution that changed the entire world. The core of Altair is a very cheap Intel 8080 microprocessor, which makes the large machine that has been in size with the people to be placed on a normal table. At the time, the computer is usually placed in a glass room equipped with air conditioners, and the surrounding rings are sitting in a well-trained technician. Therefore, this thing is also a surprised invention at the time. If you want to convert inventions into a breakthrough, Altair needs to make it software that works. This make Paul and I started to build my own software company. We know that the performance of the microprocessor will increase, the price will decrease, so the price of the computer will also decline. We envisaged the computer will walk into thousands of households, from entrepreneurs to students to home users. This will eventually lead to the rise of the software demand. We set up a company named Microsoft and added this change. Through a few years of development, PC has grown from the toys in the hands of the enthusiasts into an indispensable tool that constantly changes the world. It has a revolutionary impact on the way we handle information, communication, work, learning and entertainment. At the beginning, Paul and my small company established in my college dormitory is now the world's largest software company, with 40,000 employees in more than 50 countries. From the programming language and operating system, we invented everyone to imagine the software, from enterprise-class servers to the game. When we start, there is such a view: let Microsoft's products enter each family, computer on each table. This book introduces how we have turned this view (many people think that it is not worth mentioning) into a reality story. We interviewed hundreds of Microsoft employees in the past and the past, let them talk about the success and failure of the past 25 years, personal and professional challenges, and their embarrassment to the future. These can be written for 10 books to record our trails from a negligible entrepreneurial company as the rough experience experienced by the industry leaders, telling the risks we have undertaken, with fierce competition, and our new thinking. They interpret a good idea to become a complex process of good products, revealing how our new technologies improve scientific and changing the world. It is related to our original intention and values of our company. We rarely review the road, now maybe it is a good opportunity. We don't want to be happy with nostalgia, but in order to motivate yourself, "there is no difficulty in the world, as long as Kens Dance climb". In 25 years, we have completed many people who have considered impossible, we break the myth of some of the tasks about the personal computer. In our original ambition, we haven't thought of become such a huge, such a company, and have never thought of we can lead such an industry that can play a lightweight effect in the global economy. Review the achievements we have achieved in 25 years, I am convinced that we will have more things worthy of memories in 50 years. Every day we will find abundant and improve people's skills. We have just started.
Step by step, step by step
How can I create revolutionary software? Is there a good idea to make this
It is more important to transform into a product? Will we conduct a pre-study, or should we continue to improve existing products until the requirements? Should we become a giant, or stand on the shoulders of the giant? The answer is often both, and most of the software fuses the invention, inspiration, and continuous improvement. Regardless of the integration, only a good idea cannot be successful. You must also build a product and service that can convert these ideas into use, great value and extensive utility. You must also be able to face the future of adventure, you can have an endurance of some kind of technology and a strategy for several years. It is easy to spend time in the current market and competitors, but it is not prepared for things that will encounter in the future. This is why I arrange a few "considering week" in the year, I interpreted in this time and analyzed the future development trend. It is not easy to make a conjecture in the future. In 1975, people believe that the personal computer industry should purchase software from the business of the computer at the time of the entire computer industry. Almost no one finds this is a completely different "software industry". Paul and I don't look like this. We believe that computing power will be more cheap, computer from different manufacturers will flood every corner, and the software should benefit from this trend. So we decided to write and provide software for your personal computer, but do not involve hardware manufacturing and sales. Our first product is Microsoft Basic. At that time, the Basic language has been applied to large computers, but we know that it is also ideal for personal computers. Because it is very simple and easy to learn, and can create complex programs to make computer complete useful work. Once we have created a Basic version that can be applied to early computer memory, we start to expand it - add new commands to play the advantages of more powerful machines. Today, Visual Basic is the most widely used programming language in the world. The software that uses it written is exciting. In the past years, Basic is critical to our success. We have also made us different licensing methods for future PC development. We are not selling our software with a high price to a hardware developer, but is provided with a very low price. We gamble is quantity. At that time, the vast majority of other companies took a high price because they believed only to sell very little copies. In addition, when we develop MS-DOS PC operating systems, we work closely with all PC users to ensure that the various features they need can enter our system quickly as quickly as possible. We don't want to miss any consumers. Developers' support for MS-DOS is the key to the mainstream of the PC. Starting, young PC companies, such as Kangbia, know that the PC is compatible with each other and makes users similar and identical experience. Since MS-DOS helps compensate for the difference between computers, soon become the most popular operating system on your computer. Software developers developing applications running on MS-DOS understand their products will run on millions of computers. So starting a benign loop: more and more applications for personal computers, more and more users buy PCs, and then more and more developers want to write applications for PC. This makes the PC have achieved huge success. As the power of the PC increases to graphics processing, we found the opportunity for computing technology to continue to develop: Graphical User Interface (GUI). GUI began to appear in the mid-1970s, and some companies began to build GUI-based computers. We believe that our experience in establishing platform and development is greatly beneficial to promote GUI. So, we pressed the company's bet on Windows. Initially, people think we were crazy. Why do you want to turn to Windows when others use MS-DOS? Through our hard work of improved Windows, we are very happy to see everything that MS-DOS has happened on Windows. Windows makes the PC use more convenient to make more people use it.
Plus Visual Basic for Windows Software, Simplified Visual Basic, encourage developers to develop many Windows-based applications. Subsequent years is like our work for Basic, we continue to introduce new Windows that is getting better and better. We greatly improve its performance and multitasking support, we will continue to add new components for GUI. Improved work should be done. We changed people's business calculation by Microsoft Office. We will improve our work efficiency as a whole, and develop a development tool that bundles some of our daily different tasks. Although most software companies still provide separate applications, we realize that most people want to share text, data, and graphics between applications. They also hope that these applications can work seamlessly and have a certain similarity in appearance and operation. Office is just satisfying this need. We still have a big bet on many new concepts. Obviously, one of our biggest bets is on the Internet. But there are many other aspects. For Windows NT, we conducted a huge long-term gambling: expecting the power of the PC to support business operations. Our Cleartyper font technology reads e-books in most people in a day. Microsoft Bob is a special interface for gambling for the "humanized" computer. It seems that some advances are not strong enough, and it is unable to complete the work we want BOB to do, so this product is commercially failed. But we have learned a lot from the middle school, and some of the techniques and theories that have been tried in BOB have been used in other products. We are very lucky, living in a computer technology will change the era of our lives unlimited. Mixing of PCs, Internet, wireless and broadband technology will have a revolutionary impact on our work, learning and entertainment. We are looking forward to the revolution brought by Microsoft .NET. This impact on the next generation calculation is not impact on MS-DOS and Windows to computers, that is, through cheap, handful, easy to operate, to change people's lives. Although I have some big risk issues, I shows a certain number of alert and spirituality, but I can't use other methods. I always want to build new things and use creative methods to solve the problem, so I look forward to the creation of software that will increase computing capacity in the next 25 years. I believe we will succeed. We have human and technical conditions to achieve this goal. We are also full of enthusiasm for technology as in 1975. Feel the market
At the beginning of Microsoft, I almost seriously, and pay the payment of the pay.
Lee, draft contract, indicating how to sell our products. Everyone in our small company is a developer, and I have also made a lot of development work. In fact, we have written a lot of code. Our life is this: get up, programmed, maybe you can catch a movie, eat some pizza, then program, sleep on our chairs. We madly write procedures, sales software, we have little time to do other things. Fortunately, our customers are fanatics, not being affected by the weak function, the simple manual and the advanced user interface. This is the situation at the time of computer software. Some companies put their software in a plastic bag, with a copy instructions and a phone number (you can call this phone to seek "Technical Support"). For Microsoft, when there is a user calls asking for some software, whoever picks up the phone who is "Delivery Department." They have to ran to the back of the office, put it in the email, and then return to their seat to continue writing code. As our customers are gradually maturing, we pay more attention to providing high quality software, not just high quality code. Creating software begins to become an extremely complex process. I often compare a good software into one piece of art. But to a large extent, it is necessary to create our products from beginning to end. In order to make the current software perfect, you need a variety of special skills. Of course, you need a good programmer, but you also need many people to test and support the software developed by programmers. You need product planners and constructors, document writers, practical experts, and smart managers that make them work together. You need to answer the technician who can answer customer questions and advice experts who can help customers get started faster. All of these only large companies can provide. Each software company must solve these people. With the development of the company, we must learn these questions. Start, I appoint some temporary workers who do not write programs. We are a software company consisting of excellent programmers, we should concentrate. I think we don't have to take traditional ways to manage our programmers because the quality they work is the source code. You have to manage them by browsing code. But I immediately realized that we needed a technique that would not know how to technologically, like Steve × Balmim, working with our developers to make our software a successful product. In fact, the introduction of Balmmer into Microsoft is one of the most important choices I made. Among these days, I hired many savvy people, most of them did not write procedures. They talk to customers, understand the current needs of the market and tomorrow's trend, and report these content to the developer. They localize the software into a variety of languages. They design the user interface, customers can use our software more efficiently. They are in contact with the company to determine our software to meet their needs. They help the company IT manager deploy a huge computer network, and help Grandpa sends the first e-mail to the grandson. They also studied advanced technology to ensure that our companies will continue to be in the leading position in the future. When Microsoft began to take off, we still think that we are still a relatively small company. Despite our dreams, "Let every family, every table has a computer", we can't fully understand how much software needs people. When I drive into our park or attend the company meeting, sometimes I am proud of the development of the company. Although we have developed from a programmer-filled house a company with more than 38,000 employees, Microsoft spirit and the difference in 1975 have not much different. We still work hard, bookbuses, drink cola, and joking between each other. Regardless of whether to write code, everyone is full of enthusiasm and concentrates on our customers to develop excellent products and services. The spirit and enthusiasm of the company have urged me to work every day. How is Microsoft succeeded?
We are very surprised that Microsoft is quite successful from the beginning. This
Most of them are because we have a total of life with the software in addition to hours of sleep and eat. We are full of confidence in success. Of course, we also make some successful business decisions, such as intending to focus on Intel8080 chips and use MS-DOS to IBM, although at that time, these seem to be gambling. Sometimes we are indeed adventive, and our promise is much more than any company to make a practical promise that customers can make. To this end, we have to pay more efforts than others, we have to work more than one, work harder, and you have to challenge anything impossible. Sometimes we are doing very well, such as Intel let us write software, we can say that we can make good in 5 to 6 days, they don't believe that they think that it takes a few months, the result is that we spent about 10 days. The time completed this job, which assembled their computer to spend our 5 days. It's always surprising that our customers is always happy. We are good at making some people think that it is impossible. Throughout our history, we created a myth of a personal computer. At the beginning, few people think that the PC has become a mainstream successful product, but we have prompted him to become possible. It is believed that you can't provide high quality software for the PC, lack of real technical support, and it is impossible to provide millions of people at low prices. However, we did it. Today, some people think that PC technology is not strong enough to run high-end servers or handle complex business operations. We have to prove that they are wrong. At the beginning, we were just a small company, with a group of smart programmers. At that time, our office was not like a company but as a campus of a college. We are all very casual, there is no meaningless level, anyone asks if there is a problem, or imagines a new product, or considering our competitors are doing, they will enter my office. We don't think about our programmers, or how they organize a meeting. We only care about the great software they make. We feel our outstanding reflection in our products, and everything else is secondary. We recognize that with our company's growth, we need to keep more freedom, like us, as a small company. When there is 40,000 employees, it is impossible to have 10 employees, in fact, I can't meet with all people in the company. But we have the same spirit, I think this is the key to our success. In countless aspects, we are still like a small company. We rely on what we can rely on doing anything, scientifically use our resources to avoid waste of unnecessary expenses such as head class and expensive hotels. We still insist on open policies, people can talk to their manager talking in their group, or in the company, or in the industry. But our most important thing we have not changed is that we hire smart people. There is no alternative, nor is it easy to say. Some people should be very good, but after work, it is increasingly noticed. Others are completely losers at the time of employment, but you will find that he will become a great contributor. Often, this is full of your inner feelings. We will discover the right people. We ask our employees to participate in the interview throughout the year, not only the vacancy of this group, but any position in the company. I don't think this is unusual until we hire Mike Maples from IBM. At that time, we asked some to interview him with senior people who worked hard, this seems very surprised to him, but it is normal. The new employee is very important, we have to be sure that he has our expectations, but also makes him compatible with our ambiguity. Once you have selected the best, I think the most important thing is to trust them.
From the beginning, I just rely on others' thoughts and experience to support my own, many times, they fill the gap in my knowledge. We divide employees into groups to give them power to shape our product image, provide their own technology and resources to help them complete their work. We have given them a successful opportunity to allow them to fail, as long as we learn something from their mistakes. Of course, we also give them a chance to share their success of the success. But if all the smart people in the world work in a bureaucrat, they can't show their personality, ink, the company will not be ignored. The company will fail because of a lot of reasons, sometimes it is not good, sometimes because they do not produce products needed. But I think that the company has the greatest reason, especially the company in high-speed development, is a ruling, and is unwilling to change. Change is inevitable, technology is always developing, the market is always changing, and people always want to get more from the product. Throughout business history, we can see many companies, their acting methods rigidly dead board, satisfying their success, but not to realize that the world will change. Therefore, for Microsoft's most precious thing is our ability to adapt to changes, we can quickly seize new industrial directions, with the evolution of technology, constantly reshape themselves, thus always maintained success. Today's industry still reminds me of Microsoft to start this business in early days. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became the public's hotspot, and the technology is progressing with incredible speed. At the same time, it seems that a lot of new companies appear every day. A large number of great products, some best appeared at that time. But many companies created in that era, including several industrial leadership companies, are now no longer existed. Today, the interconnection network is evoge the same enthusiasm. Competition is more intense than ever. Because we are already a bigger company compared to the past, our impact is greater. If we make the right decision, the positive impact of the world, you will not be able to say it yourself, will be unmeasureable. But if we make a wrong decision, we have established in the past 25 years will become history. I believe we will be a winner. We always observe new trends or want to extrude our competitors, we are always happy to solve a tricky problem overcome huge challenges. So I am not only confident that we will succeed in the future, and I am also happy for us to make the intelligence and excellence efforts. We are all swimming in the same swimming pool
It is always difficult to predict how a new technique will quickly dramatically change the world.
JOHANNES GUTENBERG invented an economic approach to producing a vehicle in the 15th century, but when his invention truly impact on information transmission, it has passed for hundreds of years. The printing of the inventions is also a hundred years away from the world. However, less than 50 years later in the 1903-listed power flight, we have seen air travel to change our views on time and distance. In the past century, it is full of inventions, and they have brought revolutionary changes to our lives, learning and work, from vacuum tubes to cathode rays to PC. Each new technology is faster than ever, political and social. In fact, the current change is so fast, I often think about how people in the middle of the 19th century will evaluate today. When we create Microsoft, the idea of accessing, doing business and using computer networks has not yet formed. However, the computer and the Internet have done everything even more. They changed our lives in a record time, but they have not ended. In the next few years, the combination of wonderful software, fast processors, and wireless technology will apply PCs to any device you can imagine and some of you can't imagine. No matter where you are, a lot of information, rich communications and powerful software will be easy to use. Advanced new user interfaces will allow you to use these technologies with more natural methods, such as through voice or even gestures. These development will change and improve our lives in countless aspects. They allow information to share and make it possible to immediately communicate with anyone else. They will provide unlimited markets and business opportunities for large and small companies. They will exceed the national boundaries and may create a global economy. They will also make workers more effectively and more, and more meaningful work, it will be better. They will also enable developing countries to entertaire and enter the information age. They will help people with many people and commercial people and business that are dispersed, helping minority to participate in the global economy. We have seen how your computer has had a positive impact through education. When I am in high school, the computer is not a tool for everyone to learn, except for me and my friends, because we have a mystery against him. But what you can do is programming. Today, strong hardware and software have opened the door for the Knowledge World to enable people to create a computer. A few years ago, I visited some schools in the United States, where we are building a technical project, I am very surprisingly found that some children are using a computer-shaped laboratory, I realize that if every child has a computer, no matter whether it is At home, still in school, you will explore yourself, we will see the potential of computers in education. Satirist Ambrose Bierce depicts the future into our career, friends are sincere, life is full of joy. I hope these will become true. But I am more realistic to see the future, because any fundamental changes will bring a certain issue. . With more and more people store information on the Internet, how to ensure the security of this information? Because our economy becomes more and more relies on bits rather than atoms. How do we protect these resources from corruption or hackers? How to avoid children's adverse effects due to accessible information How can we help all kinds of cultures and global cultural cultures? I want my child to grow in a world with powerful technical tools. I want technology to enrich my child's knowledge and improve the quality of their lives. To this end, I personally and Microsoft will go all out. In many ways, this is more challenging than the most complex software issues. Only by technology or even money cannot solve these problems, you must do hard thinking, how to achieve greater and more beneficial effects, and then achieve fundamentally real changes in long-term vision. It is easy to cope with the daily work challenge, but it is very important to reflect on how to put our technology in the world. It is very important.
When I heard that our project has had a good impact around the world, I often feel very encouraged. I think as an industry, a company, one person, we adhere to our policy, developing a positive software for people's lives is a very great thing. What is our future?
Since John Atanaov and Kreft Beiler, two people have built the first
Since the table digital computer, the time has passed for more than half a century. We have seen the process of computer evolution - from huge, air-conditioning equipment and need to be able to manage the behemoths to manage, to the small desktop machine, and then to the operable computer of more than ten years ago, the speed of the fastest computer's portable computer . Now, our potential to them is just a semi-solving. As early as 1975, Paul and I have dreams to make the computer become omnipotent, and it is omnipotent. We envision that the portable computer will be able to record, process all daily transactions, and huge computer networks will allow us to keep all the world's knowledge, our exchanges between our computers are like we are chatting with each other. At that time, these were just dreams, but now many of them have become reality, and we are about to achieve more great breakthrough results. Computers are getting smaller, faster, cheaper, more features. Computers can identify handwritten and speech commands, which make them into the network, send information to the world. Now, you have embedded your computer into a variety of devices such as refrigerators, gas meters, and credit cards. Smart families embedded in computer smart to protect our family's safety, exempt from many of their daily lives. With a global connection and e-books, children can find various knowledge in an instant, but in the past, I need to go through the encyclopedia books that can be reached. Powerful mobile devices will liberate us from the desktop, so that we can operate anytime, anywhere. With the increasing size of the microprocessor, the function is increasing, and our surroundings will have operations everywhere - perhaps even in our clothes. Support all these technologies, is to help people get greater creativity, keep in touch with each other, making life more enriched great software. In a person concern, I like to notine the size of the computer, which can be high-speed wireless access to the Internet, and the size and weight are both enough to display many useful information, which is easy to carry. For me, this is really excluding many obstacles, allowing me to deal with various digital memo, documents, images, music and movies. The reason why I was attracted by a computer because you can make a lot of programming, and you can control a lot of control on your desire. However, most people just want the computer to work for them. Today, we are close to the best state of success at the same time. I look forward to the intelligence of the software is enough to manage my information, simplify my life, and the flexibility it has allows me to actually create creative during use. When I search online about a subject - such as biotechnology - information, my software should be smart to eliminate the information I have already mastered. When I need to arrange a visit, my software should only show me what available in the days I plan to enter the city. Breakthroughs in wireless technology are also incredible opportunities. In Microsoft, we have entered a wireless network, which allows me to bring my computer or other smart devices to leave the office into a conference room or other office building without loss. It is also unimaginable for the possibility of the family. I can shoot a video outside for my children, and store the digital stream on my computer and send it to my father. We are entering a new era that will bring us unprecedented magical experience. We expect to access high-speed Internet at home, will become like electricity today, followed by inending wireless access. We believe that the microprocessor will further become small, cheaper, and more powerful. We believe that a personal computer will receive a large number of equipment and household appliances with PC intelligence, including pocket PCs and notepad PCs, smart vehicles, refrigerators, and even a complete home intelligence equipment. We put all the bets all in Microsoft's .NET strategy - this is a new platform, a new user experience, a series of advanced software and services that allow all of these devices to work and achieve seamless connection . In this way, you can get the information you need for your work whenever you are.
In order to make this become a reality, I have served as a new job of Microsoft's chief software designer in early 2000. Now I use most of the time I think it is the most appropriate thing - thinking about technology development trends, planning how to make those exciting new achievements to be useful for everyone through our software and services Indispensable tools. This is going to do a lot of work, such as how to let the software help your equipment exchange, best configuring and self-management? How to help them see, listen and understand your needs? How to help them provide you with what you need in an appropriate manner? How to protect your valuable data is not stealing or eavesdropped? We used technology from Microsoft .NET from our researchers for a long time, they have been forecasting the future demand for software. At the beginning of the creation of Microsoft, I have dreams to build our own laboratory, to explore new computing areas, new user interfaces, advanced programming technology, and even research can promote basic science of computing science. I have been envious of the work of those famous research rooms, such as the world's earliest large industrial research laboratory - General Electric's "Magic Palace", Bell Labs and Xi La's Parro Alto Research Center (PARC), prompted us Many techniques that have changed in life have originated from these research institutions. We launched Microsoft Research Institute in 1991. From then on, it has created numerous new technologies, making our product functions more easier to use. Microsoft Research has launched code optimization procedures and test tools to help us create more reliable high quality software. The natural language processing tools they provide add a rich syntax check function for the Word system. The Clear Type program they develop has doubled the clarity of the LCD display today, which greatly improves the experience of reading on the screen and promotes the development of e-books for cheap and easy reading. Currently they are studying natural interface technology to help computers understand your voice, your posture or even face expression. Today, they are helping us to develop and configure many technologies needed to achieve Microsoft .NET strategy. A full-time work in Microsoft Research Institute is to look forward to the future. However, all kinds of ideas promoting our progress are from all departments of the company. Some of these ideas will become the software tomorrow, while others may become the software that we will use by our grandson. When I retrieve Paul and my childhood, I really surprised our achievements. However, when I look forward to my own child's future world, I realized that the future change is even more exciting. A PC change is being staged
Mid-1970s
In 1975, in the automotive repair between the United States, a new hobby was being discovered, this is a miniature computer. These early microcomputers look similar to the assembled metal box, able to perform simple computing and run a few simple games.
There are two young people who have developed a software application to develop a computer to the dream of daily life, so that the functionality of the PC has become useful and tentacles for everyone. Using Altair 8800, Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed the first microcomputer programming language and started their extraordinary, creating a history of life.
In 1975, Paul Allen and Bill Gats were developed and sold their first product. Encourse, Allen and Gates developed a Basic computer language for ALTAIR 8800. The Alan and Gates developed by "Popular Electronics" magazine.
In 1978, the annual sales exceeded US $ 1 million
In 1979, Gates and Allen, Seattle, move Microsoft from Albuquerque from New Mexico to Bellevue in Washington.
Rise of PC
In the 1980s
By early 1980s, personal computers became more popular and became a billions of dollars of industries. Microsoft's development of operating systems, programming languages, applications, and games makes several major computer companies such as Apple and IBMs begin to enter schools, families, and businesses.
There are more and more features, and the PC that is increasingly efficient is no longer limited to the computer hobbies that make those full-day bubbles in the garage, but gradually enter the office and family, helping people to change their work and lifestyle. . In the end of the 1980s, there were more than 90 million computers, Microsoft was quickly realized for PCs.
The 1981 MS-DOS operating system is loaded into an IBM personal computer.
In 1983, Microsoft Word used in the MS-DOS system first settled in.
In 1983, the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface was first released. It was officially launched in 1985.
In 1984, Microsoft software runs on the first Apple Macintosh computer.
In 1985, Microsoft held a 10th anniversary celebration of the company.
In 1986, Microsoft stocks were listed on $ 21.00 per share. The first publicly raised was predicted by investors to predicate one of the most successful stocks in the 1980s.
1989 Office 1.0 puts the market for Macintosh computers.
Windows beginning
In the early 1990s
Microsoft continues to maintain a rapid growth momentum. Windows 3.0 This easy-to-use multi-function operating system is available, millions of people recognize the power of personal computers.
In 1995, people were looking forward to the long-awaited Microsoft Windows 95 became the best-selling software products in history. The success of this product prompted PC to enter 250 million companies, families and schools around the world.
1990 Microsoft released Windows 3.0.
1991 Visual Basic is an exclusive development in graphical application development, becoming the fastest and most convenient Windows application development.
The 1992 Microsoft Research Group was formally established and is committed to expanding the application of personal computational technology.
1993 Encarta became the first multimedia encyclopedia designed for computer.
1994 Microsoft launched an integrated information system designed for corporate network environment - BackOffice.
1996 Windows 95 was released, and more than 100 million copies were sold within 4 days.
Internet explosion
Mid-1990s
The entire world is in the surroundings of the Internet. In 1994-1999, Internet users increased from 3 million to 200 million. Microsoft has increased development based on the power of the PC with tightness.
At the end of the 1990s, the amazing growth of portable handheld devices allowed users to connect with the network anytime, anytime. A new digital world is present in front of people, while emerging technologies affect all aspects of work, life, learning and entertainment.
In 1995, Microsoft hosted "Internet Strategy Day", claiming that it will add Internet features in all products.
In 1996, the Windows CE was held. Windows CE is a new small and portable device operating system.
In 1997, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 provides users with an unprecedented Internet client solution.
In 1997 Office 97 officially released, it is a completely integrated smart app, and a set software containing web access.
