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Revision as of 16:30, 1 August 2022
Microsoft Corporation is an American tech company founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA. The company began as a developer of programming languages, and slowly expanded to operating systems, office applications, entertainment, and a seller of hardware. They currently hold a dominant lead on the operating system of desktop computers with Windows.
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Personal
I have been using Microsoft products since the late 1980s when I first encountered MS-DOS v3.2. My family's first computer came loaded with MS-DOS v5.0 and Windows 3.0 with media extensions. Since then, I have used nearly every version of DOS and Windows as well as a large variety of Microsoft applications, programming languages, and gaming software. However, my use of Microsoft is not because I prefer their products, in general I tend to hate them and think they've steadily gotten worse since the mid-2000s. Instead, I use Microsoft because they have such a huge market share, that it's difficult to have access to all the software I like without using their products.
Software
These are programs that have a particular importance to me.
Applications
I used to use the majority of Microsoft applications, but over the years, I have found superior free replacements for nearly all of their apps.
Games
Microsoft rarely develops games in-house, and instead pays third-party developers to make games for them, and then publishes them.
DOS
Windows 3
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Windows
Operating Systems
Programming Languages
Logos
(1975-1980)
It's hard to read, especially at smaller sizes, the S breaks the theme with thinner lines at top, and it just reeks of the 70s.
(1980-1982)
Far too jagged.
(1982-1987)
The full-width Cs and Os make it look odd with the otherwise tight kerning.
(1987-2012)
This logo is fantastic. Like any good logo, it's legible at varying sizes. The italic Helvetica is plain, but the notch taken out of the o gives it flair. This is the first logo I viewed, and it's my favorite.
(2012-Present)
Bleh. Not only is it using the dull flat redesign of Windows, but it's associating the whole of Microsoft to only one of their products. Bad idea.
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