Today, more than 90 million copies of Microsoft Windows are used in.
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corporation,.
popularized the user of graphical user interfaces in the 1990s by introducing.
Microsoft Windows.
As early as 1977, Gates realized the need for operating system changes. A.
key element missing in operating systems was the capability of application.
software to interface easily with a computer's input and output devices.
Although he recognized the need for change, it was several years before Bill.
Gates and Microsoft Corporation would take action.
At .A 1982 computer convention, VisiCorp Corporation demonstrated a.
software interface called VisiOn. VisiOn contained many of the operating.
system changes Gates had imagined. In response to VisiOn, Microsoft.
Corporation began the development of what was called the Interface Manager .
A design team was formed and announcements were made that Microsoft was.
working on a product superior to VisiOn.
The graphical user interface concept used to develop the Interface Manager.
was a descendent of the experimental versions of the graphical user interface.
from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center and the commercial version from.
Apple Computer's Macintosh.
Throughout 1983, Microsoft Corporation promoted the Interface Manager and.
the graphical user interface revolution. The name Microsoft Windows was.
introduced when marketeer Rowland Hanson insisted on replacing the name.
Interface Manager with Microsoft Windows. By late 1983, Windows was.
widely recognized even though the development of Windows would not be.
complete until 1985.
Microsoft Corporation released Microsoft Windows Version 1.0 in 1985.
Version 2.0 followed in October 1987. When Microsoft Corporation released.
Version 3.0 in May 1990, Windows became a success. In the year following.
the release of Microsoft Windows Version 3.0, more than three million copies.
were sold. In 1992, Microsoft Corporation released Version 3.1. Microsoft.
