The History of Microsoft - 1979

For Microsoft, 1980 means a new decade and new technology. Microsoft introduces the Z-80 SoftCard, Steve Ballmer joins the company and we announce XENIX OS, a portable, UNIX-based operating system for 16-bit microprocessors.
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The History of Microsoft - 1975
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The History of Microsoft - 1978
The History of Microsoft - 1979
January 1, 1980
Microsoft Consumer Products announces its first consumer-oriented application software, Typing Tutor.
April 2, 1980
Microsoft introduces the Z-80 SoftCard, a circuit board that plugs into the Apple II computer and allows Apple II users to run CP/M applications with only minor modifications.
June 11, 1980
Steve Ballmer joins Microsoft with responsibility for Operations, including personnel, finance, and legal areas of the business.
August 25, 1980
Microsoft announces XENIX OS, a portable, UNIX-based operating system for 16-bit microprocessors.
1980 Revenue/Headcount
The 1980 year-end sales total $8,000,000. The 1980 Calendar Year employee headcount totals 40 people.
Other products released in 1980: Basic Compiler 5.3, TRS-DOS COBOL and Basic, muLISP and muMATH, TRS-80 Editor/Assember, XMacro-86 Cross Assembler, COBOL-80 Compiler 4.0, BASIC Interpreter for Z8000, Olympic Decathlon (game), M/SORT, FORTRAN & COBOL for
Apple II, RAMcard (memory expander for the Apple II)
Other 1980:
Can you PLEASE use some convention for these download filenames. ForTinaHistory... WTF?!?!?
Super Cool! Thank you Tina for bringing us this video. I'm downloading all the series. Could you please make longer videos in the future? We always want to know more ! Bye!
I don't know if this is the right thread for this comment, but here it goes,
My platform since 2000 is mainly Mac, either at home or on the road consulting. I just recently bought my first non-ppc mac, the mac mini so that I can keep up with my personal interest in silverlight+.net.
We are divided no more, thanks to OpenSource and Linux, so this is not a platform gripe, it is something for the technicians to test.
I have VMware Fusion+xp home edition SP3, and I can run "in parallel" windows and mac.
I noticed using IE 8 in the Fusion virtualization of windows that the volume control for these movies works correctly, with decent decibel output.
Simultaneously, and logged in to the forum "twice" with a mac os x 10.5.7 (last night update), the volume output is totally unacceptable for the silverlight 2.0 I downloaded and installed as a plugin to Safari browser. You can up the volume control arrow all the way, and still you can't get decent volume.
Are there known issues about this ?
wow I've never heard of XENIX, you learn something new every day