In the impression, Microsoft is a company, Windows operating system, office office software, SQL database, etc. Software makes people understand, but it is said that Microsoft's history, few people know that Microsoft's development history is The hardware is not open. In 1983 20 years ago, Microsoft produced the first mouse, so that the waist rod was hard. Until now, Microsoft is in the world's absolute leader in the world in mouse, keyboard, wireless devices, games. At present, there are more than 200 Microsoft's hardware teams, including many of the industry's best ergonomics experts, industrial designers and engineers. Although this group is not a large number in Microsoft, its entrepreneurial spirit and invention can be in the company There is an oral monument inside and outside. In China, even a few brands have a hardware manufacturer, I am afraid it is not necessarily to achieve this scale. Microsoft's strength in hardware can be seen, and we have always called "Software" when we talk about Microsoft.
In the US market, the Microsoft brand mouse is already the first product of the market share. In addition to some other places abroad, Microsoft has been selling related products, in China, mouse, keyboard, and unpackored 荘 荘 c fans pursued the best. As early as 1989, Microsoft's mouse sales had exceeded 2 million pieces, which greatly exceeded the sales record of this product at the time.
This year, Microsoft's hardware has gone through 20 years, while Microsoft's hardware has a close relationship with Microsoft's mouse, the development of keyboards. Before Xbox, the Bluetooth device has appeared, Microsoft's hardware is only concentrated in the mouse. Two aspects of the keyboard. So this time Microsoft hardware 20 years of articles, mainly from these two products, introducing Microsoft 20 years of wind and rain, how to vicissitudes, how to see success and failure. How did Microsoft came over? Let's take a look at Microsoft's hardware 20 years.
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Microsoft mouse for twenty years main line and iconic products
In 1982, Microsoft officially established a hardware team, responsible for studying and making Microsoft's first mouse with Microsoft Word, and the picture below is the icon used when it is set up.
On May 2, 1983, the first Microsoft mouse was born. This is the first mouse that is developed by the company based on production software. This mouse looks more like a mouse than the current mouse, especially two black buttons, more like a mouse. And the mouse that sold $ 195 was really scared.
(Click here to view the news from the first mouse at the time. English)
Microsoft's first mouse finally came out. Compared to now, the mouse does belong to antiques.
This mouse is outside the outer package and mouse
The appearance of the mouse and the base
In 1985, the newly designed Microsoft Mouse 5.0 officially facing the city, the mouse has a higher resolution and a small work noise. The mouse change is that the left and right buttons are in the middle, so that the user does not have to keep your fingers to the front.
The appearance of Microsoft Mouse 5.0, is not large with the first mouse
This is the mouse that foreign friends also have collection.
In 1986, Microsoft Mouse 5.0 mouse became the first award-winning hardware product of Microsoft, driving the market's consumption boom and quickly popularized in users.
