Why Microsoft Keeps Beating Apple And Google With Windows

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Microsoft Windows debuted in 1985 and for the past two decades it has been the dominant PC operating system worldwide. In 2020, Windows had almost 83% market share by unit shipments, while Google Chrome OS had 10% and Apple’s Mac OS had 7%, according to Gartner.
From solitaire to its iconic start button and start up sounds, productivity apps, gaming and corporate computing, Windows changed the way we use computers. The legendary Windows 95 helped propel the company to dominate the market in personal computing. Microsoft has introduced many versions of Windows since its inception with some more memorable than others.
It’s competed with IBM, Apple, and Google for market space. According to Microsoft, there are more than 1.3 billion devices running Windows 10 worldwide on a monthly basis.
Today, Windows only makes up 14% of Microsoft’s business but remains a critical part of it. The company just announced the latest version Windows 11.
CNBC spoke with former Microsoft employees including Terry Myerson, Michael Cherry, Brad Silverberg and Tandy Trower to get a look back at over three decades of Windows.
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@michaelv3340 3 года назад

I remember when Windows 95 debuted, they interviewed an older couple who bought a copy of the program, despite the fact they didn't even own a computer of any kind.

@DR128BIT 3 года назад

They returned to Circuit City and bought a PC afterwards.

@owenbevans6062 3 года назад

I remember the day I installed Win 95! The day I dialed up AOL, the day I got my cable modem! Great days all of them!

@JCcreates927 3 года назад

I remember Windows 95 coming out. My hubby and I were invited to a big showing of it, it was a big deal back then.

@martiddy 2 года назад

Maybe they were going to buy the computer the same day.

@omegalpha777 2 года назад

I was a teenager in the 90s, Windows 95 was everywhere. Very exciting and nostalgic time, including also Windows 98. Now every new Windows version doesn't have that magic like before.

@JPPorcaro 2 года назад

SPOILER: this video NEVER ANSWERS "Why Microsoft keeps beating Apple and Google with Windows"

@nevim007 2 года назад

I will give you the answer: Because they got (almost) a monopoly in the sphere of personal computers. Back then in the 80's, there were several competing PC platforms - Apple, Commodore, Atari, Sinclair, Sharp... (Who remembers them nowadays anyway.) All were very protective about their know-how and computer architecture. Microsoft happened to land a deal with IBM, although MS-DOS was lagging behind some other operating systems at that point of time. However, IBM surprisingly (unlike the competitors) decided to release their IBM PC architecture and allow cheap clones to be built. Of course, that was a major disruption to the market and the IBM PC quickly became the prevailing PC architecture on the market. They were all running on MS-DOS, of course. By an accident, Microsoft, a mediocre company with mediocre products, suddenly became a world monopoly.

@jamesm0909 2 года назад

@@nevim007 It's NBC, not surprising. Millenial/Gen Z 'jounalists' are amatuer hour losers save a few.

@bunzeebear2973 2 года назад

Because it is there. Many people I have talked to did not know there was OTHER BROWSERS such as Mozilla which were more preferable to use over the changing I.E. browser that came with Windows. The whole idea of searching for whatever you want was not a concept easily understood. M$ is loaded onto the cheaper IBM type computers so price matters at that time. So if you use the I.E. browser you get windows type pages with advertising. Apple has an expensive computer. Google is a browser you got to look for and download and install.(much extra work) I am guessing that is the answer.

@sungiant2000 2 года назад

@@jamesm0909 you're not wrong but they are better than the brainwashed gen x/boomer journalists that don't know anything about the world.

@rahulverma8774 2 года назад

@@nevim007 Are other OS good in gaming ??

@acbgames1766 2 года назад

Never knew Solitaire was there to practice drag & drop.

@hypothalapotamus5293 2 года назад

Minesweeper was to train you to close popups in your browser.

@deadlypyre 2 года назад

@@hypothalapotamus5293 lmao

@nikhilmwarrier7948 2 года назад

@@hypothalapotamus5293 facts.

@wdbland0820 2 года назад

That stood out to me too.

@sambotros1918 2 года назад

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@SK-lt1so 2 года назад

I love when company executives state they don't want to leave Windows, because "we would have to retrain our workers", when in reality they don't train anyone to begin with.

@solovoypasando 2 года назад

probably all their workers have a pc at home, so they already know the basics

@nonionbeezness 2 года назад

That’s because no one wants to incur the cost of jumping first to retrain them on “their job tools” to be the Linux variants (that may have to be created first ) for saving some license fee. Until the pain gets big enough no one is moving.

@kevinbradshaw1420 2 года назад

They wouldn't have to retrain anyone to use chrome os, and like 99% of all work tasks in the corporate world can be done in Chrome.

@AhmadZul 2 года назад

@@kevinbradshaw1420 They definitely need to retrain them. Even with Office Online, which have the same layout with desktop version, user still don't utilize it...

@hulkhatepunybanner 2 года назад

@@kevinbradshaw1420 *No one knows if Chrome OS is going to last. The corporate world needs to be guaranteed that it will before upending their systems.*

@jmtrad1906 2 года назад

If Microsoft didn't missed the timing on smartphones and internet search it would be too powerful.

@metinhesenov 2 года назад

Agreed. They are actually doing not that bad on Bing but can't say same for Windows phones. I really miss them

@mountainfox8455 2 года назад

Microst sucks at innovation , it can never create software that could compete with what Google or Apple create, for example the Chrome browser, compare that to IE or the Edge browsers.

@metinhesenov 2 года назад

@@mountainfox8455 Bruh cry hater Edge is way better than chrome only the ones who used it. And apple isn't a software company both Samsung and Apple partnered with Microsoft so many times because they couldn't create good alternatives as Microsoft made so they switched to Microsoft alternatives for example Bing and Office apps.

@metinhesenov 2 года назад

@@mountainfox8455 and that is why It is one of the world's reachest companies

@clausnielsen9700 2 года назад

Everyone think Microsoft is ahead of all. But that is not true. First they didnt think the internet would have a future, 6 month later they changed everything and went the way everybody have told them they should go. But they could advetice a lot for bad products but not make any smart new things themselves. If IT community was as clever as any line you can go on at an university it could have been fine. But the IQ in this bussiones is the lowest overall IQ,

@yosfikalqadri1917 2 года назад

OS Market share be like: 83% Windows 10% Chrome OS 7% Mac OS Me watching from my Linux machine: You know, I'm something of a ghost myself

@duckpotat9818 2 года назад

It's shipment shares, Linux doesn't ship with hardware except ocassionally Ubuntu

@dirg3music 2 года назад

Ironically all ChromeOS is, is a proprietary reworking of Gentoo linux. Same with Android.

@miket4234 2 года назад

seeing all this took me back in time for a moment. kinda missed those days, everything seemed a little simpler

@marko2298 2 года назад

I use arch btw

@farisfathoni 2 года назад

we are linux master race

@joeblack4436 2 года назад

It's difficult to convey how amazing Win95 was. It was like magic. And the best thing... Progress bars that showed you almost exactly where in a process you were. It's odd that I miss that so much.

@persona83 2 года назад

Sad we don't experience that awe level anymore simply because nothing is really revolutionary nowadays.

@RaheelFida Год назад

for us, Windows 98, XP and 7 was, is awesome

@djea3589 6 месяцев назад

IT was used in industry in CAD/CAM. After W95/98 stability for such uses was always a problem as well as interface support for CAM. Cost even small companies hundreds of thousands of dollars and lead to software leasing instead of purchase. With OS changes almost Weekly by MS one could never be sure that the system would interface and work properly 100%, especially on systems that were networked VS stand alone. We kept many machines off intranet due to this, loading programs for CAM manually at the machine. The CAM SOFTWARE UPDATES meant no longer owning the software. We ran W95 as long as possible because of this. But new equipment was being sold and required upgraded windows. Interfaces without problems became more and more impossible.

@paisastic 2 года назад

It's funny how the product was named Windows instead of Gates.

@mourgos1234 2 года назад

Gates have different shape :P

@unruler 2 года назад

What a Balmer!

@geekmeee 2 года назад

@Wandering Wombat Funny how if an entrepreneur takes all your money, he’s a genius. But if immigrants take all your money, it’s illegal. Funny how that works.

@geekmeee 2 года назад

@Wandering Wombat Thanks Wombat, you learned really well how to bully your opinion... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ymLFqI8qD_c.html

@pqrstzxerty1296 2 года назад

Was going to be called Doors but Billy's wife said close that Door when you come out.

@thevexengineer 3 года назад

who remembers that just a decade ago, putting "computer skills" on your resume would make you stand out as a potentially better job candidate lol

@christophermoreno3668 3 года назад

It still does

@akhilp3559 3 года назад

lmao theres absolutely no way in 2010 ppl were applying jobs stating "computer skills".... atleast not for any business thats not super small scale like a family business or something

@christophermoreno3668 3 года назад

@@akhilp3559 what are you getting at? Putting computer skills didn't help you stand out? There are so many people nowadays that lack basic computer skills and work extremely slow compared to others with computer skills. And it was even moreso significant/important a decade ago

@akhilp3559 3 года назад

@@christophermoreno3668 I should clarify I guess - most ppl have been putting more specific things like "ms office" rather than computer skills for as long as I can think of... That sorta generally conveys the overall competency of having computer skills rather than saying "computer skills" directly

@MrAmericaninUK 3 года назад

@@akhilp3559 also being able to code is important

@themis6905 2 года назад

Let's not forget that Microsoft sends updates to both: the legal and pirated versions of Windows. I don't care if windows gets messy sometimes, but for this, they have my utmost respect.

@themis6905 2 года назад

@@goahnary True. But I can't ask my 80+ year grandparent to run linux. Same goes for a first time user.

@goahnary 2 года назад

I couldn't ask my 80 yo grandparents to do anything. I have on many occations in fact lol. But my 54yo mother runs linux. I set it up for her barely beyond what was stock on there and she used it for a long time. Ubuntu has it's own software center just like an app store. It's really easy to use now. Build an image with their normal apps which 90% of their use is going to be google chrome... then they'll be pretty happy. That's the basic idea behind chrome os.

@goahnary 2 года назад

New user interfaces are always going to be difficult to those who don't want to learn it. Children learn ubuntu very quickly. I think anyone who has a less than average attention span can learn it if you tell them it's not that hard. The fear is what keeps people from learning. That's why my grandparents can't use their MacBook. They fear their going to mess something up rather than just paying attention to what they're doing.

@themis6905 2 года назад

Yup

@volvo09 2 года назад

@@goahnary i prefer linux for my grandmothers computer because she doesn't click the fake adds and install spyware. Printers are plug n play, it's great. When i gave her windows she was always installing "driver managers", "system helpers" , "wallpaper spyware apps", "shopping helpers" that redirected web traffic to odd stores, and so on. Can't get mad at her for being confused, but on linux that crap doesn't even install, so she closes the browser and clicks her email link un the desktop again.

@bbnCRLB 2 года назад

As long as smart phones come with OS installed and without opportunity to install different OS, the status quo in terms of market share can never be overturned.

@unruler 2 года назад

You can install different OS if you have root, there just isn't one (apart from some barely working linux mobile).

@sonofage 2 года назад

@@unruler I would say that works for tech enthusiasts but not the casual user. Have you seen those before? they really don't even change ringtones, let alone an OS haha. I hope i get proven wrong on this in the future. Would be cool to see happen.

@blank2707 Год назад

@@unruler For some phones you can't. For example Samsung phones have knox (a hardware fuse) which will be tripped by changing the base OS and cannot be untripped. Many apps will refuse to work after the fuse is tripped (like Netflix for example). In other cases you just can't support an OS without Google play support and Google is very heavy handed in allowing that. Many alternative android OSs are intentionally crippled due to how Googles shaped the platform APIs. For example if you use Lineage OS support for Google Pay (one of like 2 payment apps and the only one supported on Android directly) is iffy at best depending on which device you're using. This entire ecosystem is built with band aids and locked cages that takes away user freedoms. Not specifically an android problem, Apple isn't much better, but it's disheartening to say the least.

@funeralhouse6280 Год назад

So what is the problem if a phone has google or apple service 🤔

@somesalmon5694 Год назад

I don't use any google services on my phone and do not use the stock version of android that came with it. I also have a Linux phone and their support has definitely gotten significantly better in the past couple years but battery life still isn't there just yet although the app support has gotten a lot better thanks to gnome circle and flatpaks

@smesui1799 3 дня назад

EXCELLENT ! Brings back memories developing today's technology. I worked as a contractor for Microsoft's Windows 95 support & marketing. Windows 95 was big and changed everything to even now ! Without Windows 95 ۔۔۔ no Windows XP would have happened.

@davinp 3 года назад

Microsoft doesn't limit their OS just one computer which Apple does. Also, the PC is cloned, their are many manufactures of PCs and you can build your own custom PC. Apple does not allow this with the Mac and allow MacOS to be installed on MAC's only. This limits your choices.

@justinnguyen1290 3 года назад

You can install a fresh copy of linux on an intel based Mac. I did it using two separate partitions. One mac os and one linux. You can do windows but have to use boot camp. Not sure if it works with apple’s new M1 chipset.

@AW4WAL 3 года назад

@@justinnguyen1290 Wow, the point is miles over your head.

@brianm3160 3 года назад

@@justinnguyen1290 did you read the comment?

@marcuskruse1 3 года назад

Microsoft sees themselves as a software company first.

@MrWhoevr 3 года назад

Limits choices but increases security

@datagrab 3 года назад

*Whoa, I didn't know Chrome OS has surpassed MAC OS in terms of shipments?*

@rohith9439 3 года назад

cheap and schools.... ya know....

@thunderingeagle 3 года назад

@@rohith9439 Yup many schools are using em

@marcuskruse1 3 года назад

Affordable

@Jeffcrocodile 3 года назад

where have you lived on? Mars.

@WPaKFamily 3 года назад

Bill Gates can still gargle my sack

@theaterofsouls 2 года назад

that windows 95 start up track though... goosebumps

@too-da-loo 2 года назад

What has frustrated me with Microsoft is them adding more junk to each OS and trying to force me to work a certain way. They can't stand the thought that users are different. Windows XP and 7 was great because you could uninstall a lot and start with a nice, simple, clean OS.

@harshdhiman2690 2 года назад

Agreed, I went to Windows 10 from 7, and somehow it felt like a downgrade too

@raginald7mars408 2 года назад

on my 4 PCs I run win 7 as long as it exists. Surprised - I still get updates...

@romancernjak 2 года назад

you can clean up windows 10 pretty well actually. and windows 7. i know, sometimes you need third party apps to replace the functionality that older versions had, but we have no choice. now, if only they could simplify the navigation pane without cloud services acting as volumes (going into registry doesnt fix this either) it would be awesome. but yeah. every new version is a visual upgrade and a functionality downgrade. thank god for classic start.

@matt-eu-poland Год назад

Windows 10 and 11 are a huge progress for me personally. I'm happy that they raised the bar of how system works. It also feels more secure by default.

@matt-eu-poland Год назад

I'd say if you have a powerful PC, there is really nothing to clean up IMO. I bought mine some 5 years ago in Poland. They disallowed me to upgrade to 11. Was it bad move? I don't think so. At least I noticed that my computer isn't secure on the hardware level & I upgraded. After to upgrade everything is smooth, and I'm more productive on Windows 11 than ever before. Definitely a good change. What they could work on is performance of animations maybe. I keep mine disabled, works well.

@edlee8949 3 года назад

Everybody needs some windows in their house, so that's why Microsoft is winning.

@yogalD 2 года назад

Everybody needs some windows in their Office too

@philipmcdonagh1094 2 года назад

@@yogalD Yea and a window you can open for air while its still free.

@danisk7175 2 года назад

Lol

@paulkiarie6538 2 года назад

underrated comment lol

@philipmcdonagh1094 2 года назад

@B. Jackson You either have a big house or a lot of computers.

@ravishankars6707 3 года назад

I never used a Mac because it was hardly available in India and even when it did become its extremely pricey. So it’s Windows and Linux all the way..😀

@souviksen. 3 года назад

The base model m1 macbook (needs dongles, lacks upgradable ram and storage) costs 4X my whole university fees while the repair costs being 2X as much!! Hence no incentive of buying such thing!

@madmotorcyclist 3 года назад

@@souviksen. You think only short term. I have used macs that have lasted me over a decade my record one lasted 13 years. If you amortized the costs over the long term Apple's are just as cheap. Now with the M1 cheaper mac laptops outperform their windows counter laptops.

@srimasis 3 года назад

@@madmotorcyclist this depends on the hardware not the OS. My i5 3570 pc is about 10 years old and is still in great health. No lag, or slowdown even today.

@Rhaspun 3 года назад

@@souviksen. What's bad is that Apple makes it difficult to repair their computers/laptops. It almost seems like they're trying to push you into buying another computer.

@VijayKanta 2 года назад

Macs are for professionals that make a lot of money. Many have indeed moved on from Windows to Mac for that *ease of use* feeling with a Mac

@Hehehe-hf7rq 2 года назад

Ok here are the reasons: 1. cost. Macs are not consumer friendly bec theyre costly. 2. chrome and linux systems arent as user friendly and available 3. windows and office goes hand in hand. And many users use PCs for the sole reason that they have to use office. 4. Apple systems are much more closed. Hardware wise and software wise. 5. Microsoft did not have their own dedicated PCs. This is the biggest factor. This ensured diversity of machines that suits all budgets and use case senarios. 6. Apple never took the gaming industry seriously.

@heyaisdabomb 2 года назад

I agree with everything you said. My gripe with windows is that it's not user friendly. You install a program, and the files are split all over the place. Apple contains all of these files in the .app file, so deleting is as simple as dragging it to the trash can instead of finding the uninstall app that you have to know where to even find in the os. Windows also spreads the settings out all over the place while apple puts everything in one place. So adjusting the time on windows? You don't go into settings, you have to right click the time and adjust it from there. Theirs a control panel with some settings, there's program manager with more settings, and a few other places with settings. It's quite difficult for me with a computer science degree to find what I'm looking for quickly, where as you know in mac os where the settings, which is in the settings lol. Then you have inefficiencies. The new apple silicon use's 1/10th the power of windows machines running x86. Intel and AMD processors are super power heavy, which is not good for servers where electricity is the main cost. The MAIN reason imo why apple isn't more popular is the cost. But look around silicon valley, and you'll see most people here use macbook pros.

@evacody1249 2 года назад

@@heyaisdabomb and about 90% of programs people need and use don't work on Macs so whatever.

@evacody1249 2 года назад

@Victor Joseph here's the big thing that's stops me from using Linux and MacOS. As you pointed out hardware options. MacOS and Linux users like to act like they know everything about computers. When it comes to software that maybe true. But they are limited on hardware. The software is only as good as the hardware and if there is poor hardware options which Linux and MacOS have who cares how good the software is.

@akaimizu1 Месяц назад

Back in the mid 80s through the mid 90s, computers like the Commodore Amiga had all of things, on that checklist, and did them all better with the exception of half of 4. The only exception was a closed hardware, but not software. But also was a lot cheaper than IBM PCs and their compats, and had full blown preemptive multitasking and could do it in less than 1 MB of memory. Windows users didn’t have that until Windows 95 came out. The Amiga, and the op system that could do that, was 1985, ten years earlier. Microsoft basically outmarketed that, and took advantage of businesses that already had old PCs they could install the Windows software on. Even if, at the time, their performance was worse. And you know what would blow your mind? A HUGE reason for some of the counter advertising against the Amiga was the claim that it was a “Games machine”. So, in reality, it was seeing it NOT as a games machine that skyrocketed Windows, not the opposite. The reputation for PCs and gaming being a positive factor didn’t come into play until Doom. And there’s some “lived in” accurate history for you.

@beaudene2021 2 года назад

I just remember feeding winXP any and every piece of software I could find, and it ate it up! 😋

@pqrstzxerty1296 2 года назад

and crash, Spent 99% of the time Scandisking 1% of the time updating

@kingleonidas6558 3 года назад

Minesweeper was epic & hard.

@mazibukomail 3 года назад

It's easy once you know how to play it.

@miguelperdomo786 3 года назад

@@mazibukomail i never figured it out lol

@SkRiLL420 3 года назад

@@miguelperdomo786 the number is the number of adjacent cells that have a mine, using them you could rule out one that doesn't have a mine

@bahabak 3 года назад

Use twin click (left+right simultaneously) to clear, right click to flag

@juliane5632 3 года назад

@@mazibukomail I tried practicing the game for a week, sadly i failed to understand spite being a quick learner, well looks like im not smart enough

@808BLAddict 3 года назад

I miss XP so much.. it was my first ever computer and probably the best I’ve ever had..

@chetpomeroy1399 3 года назад

Yeah, I was really bummed out when Micro$oft decided to stop supporting XP. It was so robust and dependable!

@__ZANE__ 2 года назад

i still run windows xp on my main machine. when i can't do something (which is very rare), i boot up my windows 10 desktop.

@lelenny3021 2 года назад

GUI of XP is worst in all Windows versions, especially main "colors theme", Green and Blue take over all area in the screen. Even Windows 95 start button is better. You will know don't use "colorful color" in background but small icons only. If you learn basic color theory why Microsoft just can't get the concept within a decade.

@groovinhooves 2 года назад

XP was the closest to a real OS Microsoft has ever come.

@philipmcdonagh1094 2 года назад

XP was Microsoft's biggest mistake it was to reliable.

@glenfordburrell2133 2 года назад

Windows for phones was quite impressionable. Here in the UK we called it "The Brady Bunch Mobile" due to its graphical screen display and its blue, turquoise and purple hues. We were quite surprised that it failed.

@TheFourthWinchester 2 года назад

Man those windows phones were amazing.

@aljongibaga1583 2 года назад

It failed because it has no apps

@emmausgamer 2 года назад

@@aljongibaga1583 which is strange, because the previous mobile os they had had tons of apps

@remix4098 2 года назад

@@emmausgamer why didn’t they just build off of that then?

@emmausgamer 2 года назад

@@remix4098 That's the million dollar question. I had a windows mobile 6 phone and it was so easy to use and could do anything. Games, yes. Office, yes, play high quality videos yes.

@6Planet 2 года назад

The windows feature I'm still waiting for is to have programs actually close when I hit the close button without me having to open the task manager and force close them.

@nickbutter9270 2 года назад

When that happens to me my method is this 1. Frown a bit 2. Rip the power cord out of the wall. 3. PUNCH the computer or Laptop. 4. Grab another one and start my project again... But I have found out that running programs on a solid state drive can increase a programs start up and close time. So all of my machines run SSD's No moving parts in that drive means their is no spinning disk and reader arm to move over back and forth just to find files as that is the case with standard drives. That eats up a lot of time while working on projects especially if you have lots of files and programs stored on a standard drive.

@nickbutter9270 2 года назад

@Wandering Wombat yep... No argument here. I'm in all agreement

@6Planet 2 года назад

Also when transferring something with zero programs running and it saying the program is in use and it can't transfer it. Why is there no option to close programs accessing it and transfer anyway? Instead I'm just supposed to what, restart my computer? Go through my task manager closing everything until the file is no longer in use?

@RK-um9tu 2 года назад

Warning, Warning, Troll Alert...

@metalicarus8372 2 года назад

@@nickbutter9270 a

@gamingtonight1526 3 года назад

I had a 30-year career based on understanding basic programming (learnt on the Commodore 64/early PCs in the 80s) and MS-DOS (very complicated) in the early 90s. Technology slowly got simpler to use, so wages went down. I did I.T operations in 1992 and earned $80,000. Today, in 2021, you would earn $30-35,000 for the same job. I moved into computer gaming in the mid 90s, seeing its growth, and so kept my wages high. As gaming became more "corporate" I left and retired, at 57. Understanding technology so early allowed me to buy cheap Microsoft and IBM shares, they have stood me in good stead for my retirement. So thank you Commodore, thank-you Microsoft. You gave me such a great career and a great life!!!

@ramirenriquez6795 2 года назад

And thanks for sharing your experience and observation about how even specific tech skills can become less valuable over time.

@asoka7752 Год назад

True. Back then frontend development a kind of difficult, but nowadays you can just use any framework or library to build a simple site within a few minutes. It's getting simpler and simpler in the future.

@pongop Год назад

Nice! Great points about changes and investing!

@SeldomPooper Месяц назад

@gamingtonight1526 Give me some money !

@user-po8vd5gp5w 3 года назад

those youtubers say like the MAC just got 80% of market share. In fact it is 8%. LOL

@plinyelder8156 3 года назад

No, in fact, it’s 63% as of yesterday. You don’t have any facts.

@user-po8vd5gp5w 3 года назад

@@plinyelder8156 do you have any fact showing 63%?

@RickZune 3 года назад

@@plinyelder8156 Lol it's 6.5%, heck if you look at just desktop market share it's just 15.5%. So yeah... keep on dreaming...

@dingdong2103 2 года назад

There's a thing called a Gauss curve. Only a small percentage of people are intellectual so the majority keep using Windows.

@aurelian1 2 года назад

Haven't ever seen RU-vidrs claim the Mac has that much. It has an outsized influence in the creative world, but all the creators I've seen would readily admit as much.

@Candide1776 2 года назад

I switched to Apple in 2006. Loved the interface. Ended up changing gears to study Human-Computer Interaction in graduate school, and I remained an Apple person for several years. Then, for whatever reason, Apple all but abandoned the MacOS in favor of iOS, and the interface, the interoperability, and the joy of Apple software just went out the window. I switched back to Microsoft Windows in 2019.

@kevinwillis6707 2 года назад

apple will never get my money as long as their hardware is ridiculously overpriced, that and the shady practices towards repair shops.

@RK-um9tu 2 года назад

"joy of Apple software" - someone really needs to get a girlfriend/wife...lol

@asoka7752 Год назад

@@kevinwillis6707 true.

@AbidAli-bo8sv 29 дней назад

@@kevinwillis6707exactly my point. Their repair policy is pure planned obsolescence contributing towards e-waste.

@vignesh.balasubramanian 2 года назад

9:26 - that's what heaven sounds like!🎵

@MrVibil2009 2 года назад

I felt that Micheal Cherry almost sounded like Bill himself

@iGame3D 2 года назад

Surprised that voice isn't built into Windows yet.

@winstonbeckford785 2 года назад

Did notice that as well 😃

@riderstorm101 2 года назад

I totally thought it was Bill Gates talking till they showed Michael Cherry😆

@ScottyDMcom 2 года назад

*There cannot be an accurate history of MS Windows without including MS Windows NT.* About the same time MS and IBM were splitting apart over OS/2, Digital Equipment Corp laid of a group of OS developers, who'd just completed VMS. Their leader approached MS about doing a stable and secure operating system, and MS hired them. MS released Windows 3.1 in 1992, and Windows NT 3.1 in 1993 (NT started with v3.1 for marking reasons). Traditional Windows ran on top of DOS, and (as mentioned in the video) was a graphical application launcher. Windows NT was a complete operating system, could run on DOS but didn't need it (and ran better without it). I first picked up Windows NT (as v3.5) in February of 1995. It was true and full 32-bit, used preemptive multitasking, and was stable and secure. I used to reboot once a month. An application could crash without affecting the operating system or other applications. However Windows NT had a serious limitation: graphics performance was horrible and so it could not run many games. MS knew Windows 9x was buggy and insecure, but they could not give up the video performance and full Windows APIs the gamers demanded, so they worked to merge the two code bases. Windows NT 4.0 moved the video driver into the kernel space and improved the IP stack. Windows NT 5.0 was renamed Windows 2000 and was much closer to MS's goal, but still not good enough for games and home use. *Windows XP was the first full merger between the stable and secure internals of Windows NT, and the full functionality games and home users demanded.* If Windows NT had not existed, the history of MS Windows would be very different. In my opinion Windows NT had a far bigger impact on today's Windows than OS/2 ever could have.

@matthewjeffery3686 2 года назад

That's a great and important side note to this story. I remember the drama of the merging of NT(the professional operating system) and the 95 graphical libs.

@bloqk16 2 года назад

@ScottDM . . . Ah! Yes! Windows NT. I recall helping a neighbor of mine on a landscaping project in 1994, where she paid me with a CD-ROM of Windows NT, as she worked for MS. I installed it on my workplace PC that was not connected to the network; and while all my colleagues were dealing with the buggy Windows 3.11; my PC with NT was stable as a boulder.

@jimwatchyyc 2 года назад

OS/2 was superior at running multiple applications simultaneously than Windows. That’s all I have to say.

@MasterKoala777 2 года назад

@@jimwatchyyc From experience, I absolutely agree. Multitasking was smoother, and the OS never felt like it was choking on too many tasks. It (OS/2) was much more responsive than NT, but the interface was not as nice. I worked with both back in the late 90s.

@CoreyChambersLA 2 года назад

I saw Windows in 1984. My very smart friends had a copy and told me how impressed they were. I was not able to spend a lot of time using it until 1990. Was very powerful, but extremely unstable for some software, such as Corel Draw.

@wowJhil 2 года назад

One thing is very lucky for Microsoft, and that is exactly this thing about being so open to variety and different companies using their OS on different machines through the years. Even if Mac would be much better in many ways, I would never support that protectionistic philosofy that Steve loved so dearly!

@sathvil Месяц назад

That philosophy worked much later for Apple, with the prevalance of smartphones which greatly benefits from tight integration between hardware and software. Android struggles to achieve similar optimization due to the need to run on several different hardware.

@wowJhil Месяц назад

@@sathvil Yes, there are pros like you mention. But it comes with a cost also.

@bluetiger2557 3 года назад

I liked that Tandy Trower(Ex-GM of Microsoft) has a picture of Steve Jobs and an Apple sticker in his office 😂. Microsoft and Apple, tech frenemies till the end!

@ninadk30 3 года назад

I was looking for this comment!

@filanfyretracker 3 года назад

Heck MS bailed out Apple right at the end of the 1990s. Though it was not a kindness, They kept a competitor alive to reduce regulatory scrutiny

@PhantomO799 3 года назад

2:06

@namishbaranwal3522 3 года назад

@@filanfyretracker yes

@aurelian1 2 года назад

@@filanfyretracker I'm sure Microsoft is kicking itself to this day. That's the money that ultimately let Apple make the iPhone and (along with Google's Android) end Windows' absolute grip on personal technology.

@mrsansiverius2083 3 года назад

"They feel like it's THEIR operating system" Haha, good one.

@robert1200 3 года назад

Haha forced Microsoft accounts for Windows 11 Home users

@politicallyambiguous8424 3 года назад

@@robert1200 Try ReviOS. It's Windows without that enforced account crap.

@Q_QQ_Q 3 года назад

@@politicallyambiguous8424 or just dont

@garethjoestar 3 года назад

@@politicallyambiguous8424 or just use linux lol

@politicallyambiguous8424 3 года назад

@@garethjoestar If you're skilled with using it, sure, but not something that will work for most people.

@nflynn 2 года назад

Also an excellent company to work for. One of my fav jobs, genuinely decent folks all round in my experience.

@thesakriyagram7668 2 года назад

I've been using windows since the Win 98 and still I am using windows (Win 10) as its the best OS that I am comfortable to work on. No matter which the computer is, if it's running on windows, it feels home. I think Microsoft understands PC better. Totally excited for Win 11.

@est9949 Год назад

Win 10, 7, XP have served me so well they feel like home. Win 8 was quite pointless but ok I guess, but Win 11 is a real pain. "Upgrading" to Win 11 felt like devaluing your full computer into a mere unusable mobile device as you can no longer customize the taskbar or quickly switch multitasking between windows. I reverted the upgrade immediately and stay happily with Win 10 ever since.

@El-Rico 2 года назад

"Start me up, you make a grown man cry." Perfect song to introduce W95.

@MiloDC 2 года назад

LOL!

@fwingebritson 2 года назад

Plug and play is a conspiracy.

@geekmeee 2 года назад

@@fwingebritson Can you say? Vaporware

@watchingworm 3 года назад

This feels like a Microsoft ad.

@agps4418 3 года назад

Depends on how you look at it. If it's through some Windows, sure!

@amirsattar 2 года назад

This surely is.

@Antphoneigh 2 года назад

I love how the Windows logo started as blue squares, and have seemed to have ended with it.

@aznsensation44 4 дня назад

it's extremely difficult to get people to change operating systems, as so much of it is the ecosystem which once established, is hard to change. That's why no new desktop OS or mobile OS has been able to overtake Windows or Android/iOS.

@Wolf-hd1hr 2 года назад

When I was 10 years old, my grandfather gifted me a windows xp pc back in 2007. I have lot of memories with that, thank you grandfather 🙏🏼

@kwenamedia 2 года назад

What did you use it for

@tumelor.9218 2 года назад

Windows XP 👌🏾

@Ryan-dq9sl 2 года назад

Nobody cares.

@Wolf-hd1hr 2 года назад

@@kwenamedia Gaming ofcourse. NFS 2 and Spiderman were first of few

@roxcyn 2 года назад

XP was a great OS!

@Shot007 2 года назад

Windows: businesses Chrome OS: schools MacOS: hipsters Linux: RU-vid commentators

@leobrocato3230 2 года назад

spot on

@theendoftheline 2 года назад

Windows:Most users Chrome OS:Freebies/handouts MacOS:Money Burners Linux:Most servers everywhere.

@bondgabebond4907 2 года назад

Windows: Gaming, both at home and at casinos.

@theendoftheline 2 года назад

@m o t i month old account harassing linux? Computer lliterate or microsoft paid bot?

@JohnnyMotel99 2 года назад

My Mac has allowed me to create regular 5 figure yearly incomes.

@wompa70 2 года назад

It's nice to hear Microsoft executives saying they missed the boat on different things. I like where they're going now. Windows Terminal is great.

@groszak1 2 года назад

Windows Terminal is extremely worthless.

@edwardrolenc7012 2 года назад

I am so fortunate to have lived through all this as a high school computer science teacher. Microsoft gave me exquisite tools to get young programmers excited about their futures in the world of computing. It makes me feel good about what I did with my life. Thank you Microsoft!

@julioantonionoronalamas08 Год назад

Is a shame such a narrow vision in a school teacher, I feel sorrow for the kids you teach

@somesalmon5694 Год назад

If you wanted to prepare them for computing and give them great tools I think you probably should have set them up with a Unix environment and taught them in the environment most used in corporate settings. A POSIX compatible commandline? Heck even apple might have been a bit better since they have zsh

@vncstudio Месяц назад

@@somesalmon5694 Exactly! Windows is quite horrific for using open source tools and packages for development.

@xybersurfer Месяц назад

@@somesalmon5694 i strongly disagree. the point is not to distract them from programming and make them into system administrators. also, when everything runs Windows it's easier for them to go home and continue learning

@senryuuhoutaro3353 3 года назад

The MacOs is really really good, however it is limited only to their apple products and itvis very pricey. Windows got successful because even the shitties computer can be used thanks to windows. Everybody in the third world could make their homework and office work easier without draining wallets.

@scratchx7909 3 года назад

Have to disagree, look at windows system resource usage, and look at any linux distro, plus Linux is free

@maxi-g 3 года назад

no macos is not good

@Roshan_420 3 года назад

@@scratchx7909 linux not user friendly

@russty7569 3 года назад

Pricey?

@lordvold9486 3 года назад

Everyone in first world do use windows too.

@LMacNeill 2 года назад

I can remember standing in line at the local CompUSA store, waiting for them to start selling Windows 95 at midnight. Hard to believe that was almost 26 years ago!

@sexygeek8996 2 года назад

I never understood why people waited in line for that crap. There was absolutely no reason why anyone needed it the moment it became available.

@balesjo 2 года назад

I was at the Comp USA in North Dallas for the Win 95 launch. A local radio station had a trailer set up where beverages and food were distributed and they were broadcasting about the launch. It was like attending a street fair. I ended up that night buying a copy of Win 95 and a copy of Office 95. It was definitely a memorable launch of an operating system.

@BookClubDisaster 11 месяцев назад

That's the most 90's story I've ever heard. Was there a Nobody Beats The Wiz next door?

@omegaman1409 Месяц назад

I considered the 1990s the golden age of personal computers. My adventure began in 1992. Never forget. My whole family ended up buying a computer. I considered the web a big part of this.

@JamesMullarneyIsAFraud 13 дней назад

XP was an amazing OS. Lasted 10 plus years in a lot of corporates

@smesui1799 3 дня назад

I still sometimes use it on my XP dedicated computer.

@Carvin0 3 года назад

Yes, Microsoft. JUST FIX THE QUIRKS!! There are so many annoyances that NEVER get fixed.

@Splexsychiick 3 года назад

Yes.

@NaNa-lt1po 3 года назад

And yet, there is no OS that is more user friendly (not nerd friendly )

@alexanderg1935 3 года назад

"Quirks" *No* . Bugs, faults, incongruities, vulnerabilities, crappiness. Those are the words you're looking for.

@claycoates5056 3 года назад

they do not want to fix because they have you Fixed like a drunk one Go to get more Just Say NO

@justfortheviews1383 3 года назад

And yet they want a new one

@smartasskickass4260 3 года назад

Windows 7 was the peak of Windows, simple functional, optimized, everything worked with it. Now it is overly complicated, stupid menus, 2 diffrent locations of the settings..

@acostasanchez1 3 года назад

Agree. Its the windows settings for me, i feel like it’s all over the place

@davinp 3 года назад

Microsoft needs to copy every control panel to settings in order to get rid of the control panel. By the way, the Settings apps has been redesigned in Windows 11

@SuperPlayz 3 года назад

right now half of the menus look like windows xp and the other half look like a phone

@TekkLuthor 3 года назад

I remember watching a video showing they funded the settings problem in W11

@armanke13 3 года назад

Just search it

@isabellaereshki Месяц назад

5:03 those windows 3.0 icons look great and are so much easier to read/understand then most icons now days

@ractmo 2 года назад

After reading comments I realized that linux fanboys are overly sensitive toward their os. Calm down 🙏

@Prizm44 2 года назад

_“linux fanboys are overly sensitive towards their os”_ It’s the ‘sunken cost’ fallacy... they’ve put all their time, resources, and text command lines into getting Linux builds working, that they can’t admit the effort is not worth it 😆 The fact that Linux is still not a user-friendly OS to install after 30 years of development, says volumes.

@kevinbradshaw1420 2 года назад

They should have realized that it could only ever have appealed to people like them.

@seffundoos 3 года назад

Every time I heard the Windows link click sound you triggered something inside me 😂

@nothereandthereanywhere 2 года назад

Yeah, running win10 here and I was like - WTF did I open this time? 😂

@loafandjug321 3 года назад

Kmart and Walmart are the reason Microsoft exist today. In the mid 1990s nobody went searching for an OS, the internet didn't exist as we know it today. Your only option was to buy from local big box retailers which only sold Compaq and Hewlett Packard PCs that included a Microsoft OS. NOBODY sold Apple.

@itypar 3 года назад

That's not true. I was in a small country town in the 90s and we still had Circuit city and sears that sold macs back in the day.

@loafandjug321 3 года назад

@@itypar Wromg. Circut City was like Best Buy, only around city malls. Very rare store compared to 1000s of Kmart and Walmart stores that only sold PCs.

@babagandu 2 года назад

Mac sucks anyway

@Jenacide 2 года назад

@@loafandjug321 What are you talking about? We had lots of Circuit Citys where I lived, they weren't at all rare and they weren't all by city malls, not even close. From my house I knew of at least 3 different Circuit Citys and only one Walmart and I don't even know if Kmart exists here because I've never seen it around

@loafandjug321 2 года назад

@@Jenacide lol

@TheNewGreenIsBlue 2 года назад

@8:08 A bit of retcon when he said the Internet started on Windows in the 90s. The WWW was invented by Tim-Berners Lee on a NeXT machine (precursor to OS X)... and although Windows was a BIG piece of the pie (eventually), Windows was LATE to the party.

@RFGfotografie 2 года назад

Loved this a lot, very interesting :D

@re431 3 года назад

Windows 7 will always be in our memories

@UnitSe7en 2 года назад

Still use it.

@phiksit 2 года назад

Plan on upgrading to 7... someday :) I'm not an early adopter.

@Ryrynz2000 2 года назад

@@phiksit Ur better off going to 10.

@Jenacide 2 года назад

I was on XP so long I missed it entirely

@thepcuser5469 11 месяцев назад

@@Ryrynz2000 he’s not, he may have some older computer since he’s an early adopter and 10 would run TERRIBLE on that, besides he doesn’t want an OS to spy on him

@ashutoshyadav7385 2 года назад

Best advertisement for Microsoft Windows brought to you by CNBC

@robert8984 2 года назад

At least it wasnt MSNBC.

@salina_mohammed 2 года назад

@@robert8984 If it was, it would of been ironic.

@botbeamer 2 года назад

Forget windows frosted glass slow and restrictive mess, install Linux folks. Windows is not worth it after Windows 7.

@kritomasP 2 года назад

@@botbeamer am i the only one who thinks Windows 11 looks awfully similar to Linux?

@botbeamer 2 года назад

@@kritomasP Linux is not a desktop environment

@SlightlyTechnical 2 года назад

i remember my dad teaching me dos and terminal commands as a kid good memories

@cricuts1 2 года назад

Windows XP was the real legend. Opened a whole new world for the users of the time.

@benj1236 2 года назад

*The key to this - Compatibility . Apple and Google refuses to be compatible with all hardware vendors. The reason Unix/Linux is taking over is because they are compatible with all types of hardware.*

@famousmwofficial8046 Год назад

Uhm isn't googles operating systems all Linux apart from fuschia and isn't apples operating system certified Unix? I'm I missing something here?

@prcvl 3 года назад

love how linux is missing from the chart at the beginning

@Joel11111 3 года назад

Linux is free open-source software. They don't have a market share because linux isn't a business.

@huckleberryfinn6578 3 года назад

@@Joel11111 Tell that to RedHat.

@acostasanchez1 3 года назад

@@huckleberryfinn6578 what happened to redhat?

@shashank2164 3 года назад

@@acostasanchez1 ask Ubuntu

@acostasanchez1 3 года назад

@@shashank2164 can I ask you?

@davidknightx 2 месяца назад

Holy crap that nostalgia hit at 5:17

@thomaskember4628 2 года назад

I have two PCs with Windows 10. I have had them for a few years. Lately they're both been running terrible slow. I tried all the fixes I could find on the net, but I can't get them go as they used to. Will Windows 11 solve this problem?

@tristankordek 3 года назад

I totally agree with Michael Cherry, the system we are still waiting for is one that will be rock stable, secure and private!

@woop1418 2 года назад

you could always use linux as that checks of everything you want

@tristankordek 2 года назад

@Graham Twine Show me linux with windows gui, with support for all libraries, drivers and technologies such as direct x so that everything works like under the wing of a microsoft product and I will immediately reinstall the system

@tristankordek 2 года назад

@Graham Twine It's absurd to think that DirectX is an indicator of system speed ... It's just that all games written for Windows should run under Linux without any problem, of course those that are based on DirectX I mentioned the GUI because of older people and or less experienced with computer skills, who have huge problems with navigating the operating system anyway, and because windows is the most popular of them and therefore the most famous, it is easier for them to find their way even by asking someone on the phone. Support for alternative file systems is a great idea, although Microsoft is barely able to cope with its own NTFS, it probably has no intention of introducing alternative, and 100% dedicated servers to disk arrays (ZFS) Sorry for my English

@uribak9144 2 года назад

@kryptonos rand For what the hell do I need Linux or Mac, with Windows giving me all the options and support for hardware, of course gaming as well.

@joylox 2 года назад

@kryptonos rand Elementary OS looks almost exactly like Mac, to the point that even my user interface class TA called it Mac! But with things like Steam, Lutris, and other WINE related stuff, most software runs. The only issues I've had with Ubuntu based systems, is that I can't use the Canon photo editor for my RAW files, and Canon refused to let the open source community (Darktable, Rawtherapee) use their CR3 file decoder. I also have my Linux SSD encrypted, where Windows never had that option. I'm trying Pop!_OS now rather than Xubuntu, and it's very different with it's default GUI (based on GNOME), but I didn't have to mess with any drivers as they have an Nvidia version, which is fantastic! Super easy to install, but not so easy to customize the appearance without installing something like KDE or XFCE. Is the shade feature and close button on the left too much to ask from GNOME? Apparently.

@ariez84 3 года назад

Wow Terry Myserson is unrecognizable.

@4.0gpa44 2 года назад

How can Windows feel like your os when its impossible for the search bar to search documents without searching the internet?

@Acinc-lr2jp Год назад

The MS and Windows journey and computer journey is a metaphor for many business particularly music. Like an OS a genre in music represents the foundation and the artist is the software.

@nathanaelmasuka7685 2 года назад

"What I need is to not restart my computer every week because it cant find the printer"

@todortodorov940 2 года назад

Did you try the other way, restarting the printer instead?

@jekalambert9412 2 года назад

I need to stop restarting my computer every couple of days because without the restarts it takes literally minutes to process a simple command or see the text I entered long ago appear on my screen, not to mention that a bug in Win10 that prevents my battery from charging when my laptop is plugged in. With some updates, my battery charges, with others it does not, mostly it does not. My next computer will likely be an Android. I currently use Open Office, the open source version of Excel - anything to avoid MS. Does anyone use still use Skype now that it's part of MS? Raise your hand if you think Microsoft makes great products.

@metinhesenov 2 года назад

@@jekalambert9412 Your PC just trash mate

@metinhesenov 2 года назад

Yeah then let your PC hacked? No THANKS!!!

@Pocosebas 2 года назад

"Tell me you are a dinosaur without telling me you are a dinosaur" I still hate printers even I don't use it anymore

@albertjackinson 2 года назад

This was a very well put-together collection of interviews and explanation about Windows. You explained the history, development, and the future of the operating system concisely and effectively. I especially enjoyed your explanation of Windows 11 (you could have talked some about the important touch improvements and multitasking capabilities, the latter of which was likely spurred by the pandemic, though, but that's besides the point). Good job CNBC.

@jlshoem 2 года назад

I agree with the guy that said Windows 11 should just be a less quirky operating system with less problems, and not a change in how cute it is.

@cultusdeus 2 года назад

I loved Windows phone. Sooooo good with so much potential. I really was sad to see it's demise.

@politicallyambiguous8424 3 года назад

Most people run Windows, thus people use Windows for maximum compatibility. Windows is also usually easy to use. It's also popular because it became popular in the early days.

@johnl.7754 3 года назад

and owning a PC was much cheaper than a Mac because of OEM manufacturing.

@vascomanteigas9433 3 года назад

Even Linux needed a native Windows sub-system (Wine) to make usable.

@asandax6 3 года назад

@@vascomanteigas9433 No it doesn't but it was because of the Developers not porting their apps to Linux. If Adobe and other big companies like it ported their apps to Linux, Windows would lose.

@politicallyambiguous8424 3 года назад

@@asandax6 It would be helpful to the Linux community no doubt, but it probably would not be enough for a mass exodus from Windows. People like what they're familiar with. It would probably require Windows 11 being absolutely terrible, though it very well might be.

@markBalentine123567 3 года назад

popular don't mean better though either.

@niekwushu 2 года назад

I still hope that one day we'll see a full desktop version of Windows that also runs on a phone. Not like Windows Continuum or Samsung Dex, but an actual full Windows version on which we can run the desktop version of Office, other Windows programs, plus Android apps. If that ever hits the market, I'd switch from Android to Windows in a heartbeat.

@floatingrabbit3556 2 года назад

Finally, someone who calls a mac a PC. Respect.

@roxcyn 2 года назад

It is: PC = Personal Computer. Which would include any Mac 🖥, right?

@chubbyBunny94 2 года назад

are you sure? I bought my first Macbook this year. It's not without its issues but man, Windows has some catching up

@sock7481 2 года назад

not really

@Hristoo 3 года назад

Even if microsoft tries to make great windows systems, and fail, the top 3 will be the same forever. 95, XP, 7.

@dijoxx 3 года назад

I see you're not old enough to remember 3.1

@smartasskickass4260 3 года назад

Windows 7 was the peak of Windows, simple functional, optimized, everything worked with it. Now it is overly complicated, stupid menus, 2 diffrent locations of the settings..

@RaymondHng 3 года назад

@@smartasskickass4260 I'm still using Windows 7 now.

@christophersalmon9303 3 года назад

@@RaymondHng Me too, running smooth as ever.

@bowez9 3 года назад

95 was junk 95SE and 98 fixed 95.

@LegendaryPhenom 2 года назад

I used ALL version from 98 to Windows 11 Dev beta now and i gotta say that outside of Windows Me and Vista(though not entirely) they were really great specially 7. On a side note... Windows Vista wasn't that BAD it just came at the wrong timing without much support for 3rd partners, however vista after SP1 and some performance updates was very good OS but then Windows 7 arrived....

@PC4USE1 2 года назад

Vista was more memory intensive than XP and a lot of PCs hadn't caught up to it yet. Vista Basic was more or less as memory intensive as XP but did not have all the fancy bells and whistles.

@mho... 2 года назад

my first one was win3.11, after that 95 was bad, 98 good, ME bad, XP good, vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, (9?!) 10 is good, 11..... idk if i want that! only ever owned every good 2. version 😅

@LegendaryPhenom 2 года назад

@@mho... haha respectable. Though i gotta say that Windows 8.1 was better than 7, i used it till win 10 came with classicshell, never looked back.

@Chrispy9393 2 года назад

I really wish Windows Mobile would've taken a larger hold. I had a Lumia 950 with Windows. It was FANTASTIC. The display was great, the home screen was natively attractive and convenient to use. I miss it.

@TomMariner 2 года назад

I developed for Windows 1.0 through 3.1 -- (the first released version). BIG changes along the way from code called from MSDOS to the dominant OS on the planet.

@mechajay3358 2 года назад

CNBC: "Microsoft created MS-DOS" Me: "Where did you get that source from?"

@templet45 2 года назад

Digital Research

@nandananvekar921 2 года назад

Xerox labs

@finckoff879 2 года назад

joke of culture, its reachability is limited by ignorance of the most

@darrenclift6704 2 года назад

Microsoft didn't create dos, way wrong, it was a guy in seattle that created, and bill gates's team went to seattle and the guy needed money and sold it to microsoft for 50 grand. check your sources!

@MrJabez89 2 года назад

What was the point of making this comment?

@MatthiasKrijgsman 2 года назад

Windows is like HR. It's not there for you, it's there for your company.

@HoneyFighter_BCW Год назад

I remember my first Windows PC: a windows 7 laptop by samsung. I was 10 at the time and I remember feeling like I was partaking in the future. Its incredible to see how Windows - and the computer market including Linux and Mac - has evolved in just the last years.

@isaacclarke5234 10 месяцев назад

I was born in 1996. I'm going back over the technology history of the 1995-2005 timeframe because that is my core personality that I haven't considered for years.

@IKEMENOsakaman 3 года назад

Wow, 1985! My dad was still 5!!!! Time flies eh?

@alwynsam5349 3 года назад

..when you're having fun, yes....

@vladimirseven777 3 года назад

16:50 - exactly that. Twice today restarted PC to find wi-fi meter away as hotspot from smartphone.

@robertshelton3796 2 года назад

Then you're doing it wrong. My 2015 Dell finds my phones hotspot every time.

@Jenacide 2 года назад

@@robertshelton3796 Oh, you're one of those "If I haven't experienced the problem it must be you doing something wrong" types

@johnforde7735 2 года назад

I used to write C on Windows 3.0 when it first came out. Many thousands of lines of code for just some simple GUI. Enterprise software for Windows didn't really start until Visual Basic came out.

@anandhunt1000 2 года назад

no matter what happens i owe my succes to windows and other people who developed computing infrastructure excluding apple

@phabove7 2 года назад

No, they didn't build MS-DOS. They bought DOS from a small company, Seattle computers or so for $50K then just renamed it.

@unreliablenarrator6649 2 года назад

Actually, the OS you refer to, 86-DOS was itself a clone of Digital Research CP/M, so Tim Patterson was himself a copycat programer, so no reason to celebrate him.

@phabove7 2 года назад

@@unreliablenarrator6649 : You are right. But, I am not celebrating him. Just pointing out that it wasn't original from Bill Gates. Just like how the concept of GUI was developed by a NASA engineer, perfected by XEROX and later used by Apple and Microsoft.

@davinp 3 года назад

Windows XP was the first version of Windows not on top of DOS, making it a true operating system.

@StevenSiew2 3 года назад

Wrong. Windows NT was the first that is not build on top of DOS.

@politicallyambiguous8424 3 года назад

@@StevenSiew2 Indeed. I have them running in a virtual machine. Much more stable than Windows 9x, which is why they were used for business workstations.

@Regme 3 года назад

Windows NT 3.1, 4.0, 5.0, and Windows 2000 were the first one to use the NT kernel while the last Windows on top of DOS is Windows ME

@stevenlatus6936 3 года назад

@@StevenSiew2 He's likely referring only to consumer desktop versions of Windows. www.howtogeek.com/132488/does-windows-still-rely-on-ms-dos/

@lelenny3021 2 года назад

Windows NT 3.1 begins before win95.

@DR-xm9ck 2 года назад

Simple. It's the Installed and entrenched base. Not because it's the best but because it became the standard for Business and Manufacturing decades ago. Way too many legacy installations for it to change.

@hagriddy8 2 года назад

I feel like these are the markets Microsoft are bad at: 1. Web browsers, they had there days in the 90s and 2000s but nowadays everybody uses chrome 2. Smartphones, they thought they had a real chance back in 2013 when they bought nokia but buy then nokia was struggling 3. Tablets, 2011 was really the year where Microsoft annoyed everybody with touchscreens which caused the fail of windows 8 4. Education, it is more of a hit or miss but most schools are now targeting chromebooks and finally... 5.Todays marketing , I would like to see more of that classic old school vibe with there commercials

@happyatheists9361 3 года назад

xp.vista.7 is the best ui experience,i wish they bring back those themes to upcoming windows 11.

@MichelDEV 3 года назад

In a weird way, they are doing that. They have transparent and blurred areas, round corners, more realistic icons and a (in my opinion) better settings app. It's definitely not the same as windows 7 but many design elements slowly find their way back

@gordongekko2781 3 года назад

I still use XP and Win 7! In my opinion they were the best versions from their series.

@seigfredancay4963 3 года назад

🎯

@bahabak 3 года назад

You guys never heard of Stardock WindowBlinds or open-shell? Why limit your OS when there's already apps to change UI? Heck even macos UI in Windows is possible with Cairo shell.

@MichelDEV 3 года назад

@@MitchMitch77-77 Windows ME was so bad

@lumeronswift 2 года назад

The only reason Microsoft keeps beating Apple and Google and Linux... is computer games. Nearly anything non-computer-game can be done more smoothly and more reliably in Linux, and the whole "customizable" concept is just a joke - most consumers barely customize their desktops, let alone their operating systems more broadly, and if you care about customization... Linux has had (for years and years) MANY more options for customization than either Windows or Apple.

@olivercuenca4109 2 года назад

That and the familiarity of the interface compared with less popular options. Most individuals and businesses don’t see much need to start messing about with other OSes if there’s not a clear benefit and some obvious disadvantages to shifting to a new system with new programs.

@NguyenTran-mf9gj 2 года назад

Windows 7 is the best version of Windows in term of customization. You can change literally everything in Windows 7, from the surface to the core of the OS. Windows 7 give you more freedom than you could ever dream of. But for some reasons, Microsoft decided to restricted those freedom from Windows 8 onward. Make it harder to even customize on the surface, let alone to the core of the OS.

@BookClubDisaster 11 месяцев назад

It's games but that's secondary to businesses where Windows completely dominates.

@manny7886 2 года назад

If Microsoft makes their OS very reliable, a lot of support technicians like myself are going to lose their job. I hate Microsoft OS because of its constant updates but at the same time, I loved it because it keeps me employed.

@NguyenTran-mf9gj 2 года назад

Yeah. If Windows 10 was just as good and stable as Windows 7, you definately gonna loose your job.

@ricdonato4328 2 года назад

@@NguyenTran-mf9gj "...gonna loose your job." Loose means something not tight. The word you wanted is lose as in loss, losing, lost, notice they have one letter o. Hope that helps you.

@Ali_ReBORN 2 года назад

If it wasn’t for the PC gaming support, Windows wouldn’t be where it is today!

@SomeUserNameBlahBlah 2 года назад

Exactly. The only reason DX12 exists is because Mantle threatened to move gaming to cross platform. Once developers move to Vulkan people will stop using Windows.

@Ali_ReBORN 2 года назад

@@SomeUserNameBlahBlah i am so looking forward to it 😆 competition is needed among them for us to get better products!

@daartistboi 3 года назад

Another reason why I love Windows is you can pirate off games & apps easily :v

@master6435 3 года назад

@Sarthak Mishra There is hackintosh if someone wants a Mac

@MoneyR236 3 года назад

Run BootCamp and you can have windows on your Mac

@master6435 3 года назад

@@MoneyR236 I wonder how would the new M-mac would work now

@_Digitalguy 3 года назад

@@master6435 No more bootcamp, only Windows on Arm via Parallels

@bhoqeem1975 3 года назад

You can do just the same on a Mac, if you know how.

@THE16THPHANTOM 2 года назад

i'm with that guy before the last, just make windows stable. make it predicable and stable. make it reliable. don't freaking forcefully restart my PC when i look away for a minute, losing my work. even though i went to hell and back to stop it, even used registry edits but the thing still ignores and restarts anyway. don't traumatize me into saving every 5 seconds in fear that the thing could crash at any moment. no, i'll get Apple instead or move to Linux.

@unruler 2 года назад

Oh, it reboots? Poor you! I used to reinstall Win 98 and XP every half a year with mandatory disk format, otherwise it will not work. Windows 10 is very stable, I haven't reinstall it in 7 years and it works fine. If you think Linux or Apple is better, you are gravely mistaken: Linux is very easy to break and it's glitchy, MacOS can brick your device - better buy a new one!

@ljwhitmire200 2 года назад

I used to make my living from Windows. It's a security nightmare. I know from first hand experience that MS could make Windows bullet proof, but they choose not to. Where Windows/MS is weak is mobile. I believe that more "computer" users around the world are on mobile which is a huge loss for MS. This will show up in 20 years. A lot of millenials don't use a laptop/desktop at all, just a phone. I personally have to have a "real" computer. The big move for Apple was porting MacOS to the Unix platform. MS had the chance to do the same thing before NT but chose not to which was a big mistake in my opinion. The collapse of the Zune showed MS was going to lose in the mobile market.