The History of Microsoft (1975-2001)

[@ferryansony2161]

happy new year 2007!! i hope this message made it in time. Sent From Internet Explorer.

[@elijah_9392]

Ferry Ansony lol

[@DrewTNaylor]

I heard that NCSA Mosaic 3.0 will be released tomorrow! I'm so excited as it's probably the best browser so far. Sent in 1997 if it's important. (I'm not making fun of you; just noticed a perfect opportunity to make a joke.)

[@dorinpopa6962]

Ferry Ansony Internet Explorer is the future cuz it predicts posts on the Internet like yours.

[@AwesomeSauce7176]

waogh i think ur internet is broken dis vdeo was relesed in 20117

[@Nithyanandan.S]

Wow. What an Advancement from Internet Explorer , Message sent in 2007 was sent to the future" 2017" Instead of 2007 How Really fast is that thing!!!!.. ;-p

[@user-hk3ej4hk7m]

the history of Samsung, believe me, it's quite amazing

[@ZILtoid1991]

They even manufactured consoles (3DO, Korean versions of Sega consoles) as well, as published games for MS-DOS (Astrocounter of Crescents in a pretty good one, although it doesn't run very well in DOSBox).

[@saltyrat6920]

The first thing Samsung created was noodles. It was founded in 1938 as a small trading company that made noodles and sold dried seafood. What a market shift they made...;)

[@Mira_linn]

besides being a trading company mainly for rice i believe and a contruction company....

[@TheAmaretsu]

Facundo Karanik watch the Video from Coldfusion, her made one about samsung and it is amazing

[@jules1495]

I think this would be an amazing TechQuickie episode

[@LazlowRave]

The original Xbox. That hard drive felt like I could fit the world on it, compared to PlayStation Memory Cards.

[@blinksenemafandrummer1826]

Xbox is great. Especially the og one and the 360.

[@Theogvineofthedead]

history of Linux, GNU or Debian would be really awesome. show some love to open source :p

[@jowt5588]

yeah or just history of 'nix and it's derivations

[@TheSportCompact]

+Stephen Inness He got so much wrong with this one that all he would do is fuck up telling the history of Linux. He tried saying CP/M became DOS. Which it did not. He also said Windows 9x runs on top of DOS. Again, it does not. He messed up a lot of things besides these two too.

[@anonymusptbo8704]

TheSportCompact DOS Copied CP/M which was originally going to be settled until the CP/M creator was "persuaded" otherwise. And yes, windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, and ME run over DOS. If you were to remove DOS from those operating systems, they would not run. Don't say shit that's not true. It fucks with people

[@TheSportCompact]

Anonymus ptbo Let me start out by saying, it is clear you weren't even alive when CP/M was around. The same is true for Windows 9x as well. I was. If you were you wouldn't be talking out of your ass right now. Go learn about CP/M and Gary Kildall for starters. Because you do not know what you are talking about. Kildall never settled anything. Windows 9x, as in 95, 98, and ME did/does not run over DOS. Windows 1 to 3.11 did/does. Nothing past those versions does. With Windows 9x, DOS is nothing more than a bootloader for 9x and shuts down. When Windows 9x is up and running, it is used in a VM as a legacy 16bit device driver layer and to run DOS programs. See you are too stupid today, and weren't alive back then, to know that DOS is 16bit, Windows 9x 32bit, and you cannot run a 32bits on top of 16bit. blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24063 I suggest you take your own advice and don't say shit that isn't true. Not only do you look like a fucktard, you look like an asshole when proven wrong by the person you were one to. Now, apologize, go to your corner, and shut the fuck up.

[@TheSportCompact]

Anonymus ptbo Oh, and also, cloning something, does not make the clone the original product, considering they don't share the same code. So, saying that, yes DOS is loosely a CP/M clone. But, it is not CP/M. By your logic, ReactOS is Windows

[@henryjiang9664]

I remember watching porn on Internet Explorer, and getting a virus. :/ Good old days.

[@ETphonehomek]

cool

[@LeftCZ]

Which one? HIV? :D

[@GewelReal]

+LeftCZ +1

[@mellamohonas]

I remember before I knew to clear browser history on the family computer. Thanks Dad - you started me down the road of IT.

[@Tristand09]

Apple rules because of ur profile pic

[@luigiymario2xd]

Microsoft has a great story

[@JJMza]

"Don't release it for free" You call that great? It's not revolutionary in anyway. I would love to hear the reason to keep things closed in regards to the big moola besides personal gain and a tremendous Middle Finger (NON-CALI STYLE). I find the direction of (not just free) open-sourced software to always cover my needs. In a business you could picture it - This PC needs to talk to this PC (let's make our money) - PC 1 speak, Hi PC 1 you see? I guess I could understand if you don't get it but convey your response to make me see what's wrong with my question besides a 1-word ignorant response or something really similar or in the same lane (call it a new game).

[@GreekAssasin101]

+Sir SPeakz A Lot He didn't say anything about that you fucking fat 30 year old virgin

[@JJMza]

Well I agree w/ the game aspect, I don't play anything free of charge unfortunately. I suppose It would then all boil down to how much knowledge you have. The whole "Don't release it for free" isn't really covered just yet. What you told me is a good reason for commercial licencing which is related to a confined controlled environment where people can decide what can be used and what shouldn't be seen. What wasn't explained is the reason for the whole entire attitude of POLICING it "shouldn't be free". But, linux being messy? Are you reading those top10 Linux distro pages :P I believe *the real Don's use Arch Linux*. Ubuntu is out of the question is terms of reliability whether it's from crappy updating systems to what's compatible. So if you want to be hassle free you gotta learn how to use the Arch way. Oh yeah, you can't do shit on a Mac, so.

[@JJMza]

I've heard some horror shock stories w/ Ubuntu within the last year. Linux Mint is even presented in that regards of "This works, look at how simple our website looks" I have also tried Linux Mint and found it to be a very neat & simple linux distro where everything that you expect from a Window's machine will already be laid out for you in Mint. Ubuntu has some hiccups like getting codecs to work, isn't that right?

[@martinkunev9911]

1:41 You forgot to mention how they "produced" DOS. Basically they told IBM they have an operating system and signed a contract. They actually had no OS so they went on to buy one. Pirates of the Sillion Valley is a good movie on the topic.

[@CamiloGomezDev]

This was awesome, and yes, a complete video with all of their history would be even better

[@josevarela72]

You guys should do a once a month longer tech episode for the things you need to send longer time explaining, rather then small pieces

[@nwbopop1217]

I will always be thankful that i was alive during those times and got to experience the tech invitations that now define are world first hand.

[@modenie]

Cover everything! This was super entertaining

[@malik_chaabane]

The history of Apple might be a great idea for the next video.

[@neromana2]

just no

[@malik_chaabane]

neromana2 Why not?

[@neromana2]

apple is an overpriced shit company

[@malik_chaabane]

Yes, but i love stories of success lol

[@ChewyTurtle]

The android version that was in development before the iPhone was more Palm/Blackberry type of interface with a keyboard. Look up early renderings for the OG Android, what you know and love today was heavily influenced by the iPhone. The history shows what Android looked like pre iPhone and post iPhone. It's pretty apparent.

[@Rowsdow3r]

Ya know. I'd really, really like to see this team get even more in depth with the history of computing. I think a lot of people could really benefit from seeing LMG do heavy history of computers and how we ended up where we are. To a lot of us nerds it's a story we've heard a thousand times, but I think you guys could tell it well for a new audience that is unaware.

[@ZRovas117]

I for one vote that TechQuickie branch out and start doing the "All Your History Belong To Us" documentaries like back then. History of tech companies and even game companies. : 3

[@djemergency512]

Windows 3.0 was my first computer OS I gamed on. I was like 6 or 7 years old.

[@ArchieOng]

Windows 3.1 was my first OS I ever used. I was mostly just playing Minesweeper and using MS Paint.

[@MrJavaman5]

The Apple II at school was mine. Monochrome green screen. Played games like, The Organ Trail, Number Munchers, and so on...

[@o0camilo0o]

This and the nintendo history is a really good idea. Good job guys. Greetings from Colombia

[@cee128d]

Point of clarification. CP/M did NOT become DOS. Completely separate products, that while achieving the same end goal were not related. In fact they were competitors. CP/M was the dominant (and vastly superior) OS and until IBM started shipping their PCs with DOS was the preferred OS. It's always interesting how mistaken young ones are about computing history, especially those that weren't around to actually experience it first hand.

[@stephenchase7711]

Microsoft sold 15,756 PC software units worldwide x $17.50 = $275,730.00!! They also sold 149,000,000 consoles worldwide x $9,799.99 =$1,399,860,000,000.00!! Total sales: $1,399,860,275,730.00!!

[@nochannelaccess9461]

Poop mcbutt

[@stellarfirefly]

Windows ME was actually very solid for me and worked so well that I was largely unaware of its reputation for having problems. Even the issues that my friends and workmates had with it at the time were reasonably minor, equivalent to problems that they had with the supposedly more solid Windows 95.

[@braydennturner]

Is it bad to say that Luke is my favorite at LTT... I mean his voice is just so soothing to listen to.

[@ganaraminukshuk0]

Computer keyboard and mouse as fast as possible. Because nearly every prediction of computer technology from the past (up to the 70s) never foresaw the computer mouse.

[@WAQWBrentwood]

Ganaram Inukshuk The mouse was demonstrated in 1968.

[@ganaraminukshuk0]

WAQWBrentwood Try 1964 for the first ever prototype, and even then, it took a long time for people to bandwagon onto the idea of a computer mouse. What I'm more interested in is whether or not people ever saw the computer mouse ever becoming mainstream, not the concept of the mouse ever becoming a thing.

[@billyashworth3944]

Ganaram Inukshuk Haha would be interesting to go back to 1964 and show them a modern day gaming mouse or something haha

[@alessandrodonadi1368]

Ganaram Inukshuk a

[@ganaraminukshuk0]

Billy Ashworth Or for that matter, 2005 and either an iPhone or a Samsung phone.

[@NiGHTSChao689]

I legit miss my Zune. I loved that thing, and had such a fun time using all of its features (yes, even the "squirting" songs).

I like longies over quickies ☺️

[@andrewdockan9314]

looking forward to a sequel to this

[@sylvershadow1247]

The history of Unix

[@Crashjr86]

I'm so glad that shirt buttoned itself up midway through the video...

[@ericpa06]

An episode about hololens and windows as a universal platform would be nice.

[@ArchieOng]

That's actually interesting especially that the growing popularity of AR and Mixed Reality devices this CES. Looks like consumer AR glasses are not too far off. Current HoloLens is basically just a Dev kit but its almost ready except for the field of view and battery. Software-wise seems ready and they are pushing that software to VR use.

[@mellamohonas]

Fascinating video. Thanks Luke!

[@LifeWulf]

As he was saying, "Internet Explorer", the video suddenly cut out and refused to buffer. On Firefox. Maybe he's telling the truth? :P

[@meepmeepimajeep]

Awesome video! As usual Luke!

[@sush2142]

Holy shit that belly is starting to show

[@CbarMiiXaaS]

Kingslayer he yo-yos write a bit eh?

[@JohnSmith-nc9ep]

Yes please! Do the long version if possible. Also please do the history of other things, thank you very much.

[@ElectronicsForFun]

l love that pinball game!

[@Ozoingo2]

same here :D

[@PoleTooke]

I grew up on it. It has a special place in my childhood 🥰

[@randallsmith2521]

This is one of those topics that Techquickie can never do justice to. Not without doing it as a series anyway.

[@JackLe1127]

I wanna see luke's techlongie

[@victoriamorrison5454]

what the fuck

[@RegisBodnar]

History of Mobile optimized Windows distros! It could include all of the Windows CE, Windows Mobile/Windows Phone stuff as well as Windows 8 and 10!

[@thesliceyofthedicey6369]

God bless Microsoft for giving us WYSIWYG

[@ThunderWorldInteractive]

haha, I legit got this link from my Intro to Operating Systems class Love you guys!

[@LukeRaus]

Aw, I read that as "The History of Minecraft." Disappointed...

[@omperial9870]

Windows '39 is my favourite, as it hosted my favourite game, WW2.

[@audieliem4843]

Things I like covered For Modern Microsoft History DirectX Windows Phone (duh) Windows 8 (duh?) XBOX ONE initial release controversies Their still currently annoying forcing updates for users Their surprisingly good Hardware business with the surface line

[@sirkllr]

I would like to thank you for all the techquickie. you guys have caught me up on a lot of technology that has just passed me by, the last time I built a PC wasn't 2004 and I never looked in on technology since then and I would just like to say a lot has changed thanks again

[@nez777thafish]

What ever happened to Encarta?! I used to love playing the maze game thing. lol

[@mjc0961]

Yeah me too.

[@JJAB91]

Microsoft shuttered Encarta in 2009.

[@nickmudd]

Explaining how tunnel bear works actually made me interested in the "ad"

[@Ayo22210]

History of Apple! Do a segue to NeXT Computer and how they used Berkeley Unix (BSD) and the Mach Kernal from Carnegie Mellon and how that led to the WWW. Then Apple bought NeXT and did Mac OS and iOS...

[@iant720]

John Adams yes!

[@bohdaniatsenko8428]

That's an awesome video, good job guys!

[@harvindersingh5119]

No word of Windows copying apple when it's clearly known that windows did copy apple

[@SamFirthDesigner]

They both stole from Xerox at PARC

[@bpfuels]

Sam Firth Apple paid royalties to xerox, Microsoft did not

[@00Klingon]

Also no mention where Microsoft basically screwed the guy who developed 86-DOS by selling IBM a product they didn't yet own and using the deal money to buy it.

[@stephandelaat]

An hour long documentary would be very nice!

[@Tetris556]

I would watch a Tech Longie channel. I would watch a Tech Longie channel so hard.

[@mascotty02]

wow, a few memories there, Thank you

[@robertshuxley]

no mention of Windows 3.1? that came before win 95

[@ray73864]

Not even a mention of Windows 2, and the BASIC side could have been touched up a bit more with the likes of GWBasic and QBasic. Could have also added in that MS had an Antivirus program back in the DOS days called MSAV.

[@marvism331]

I'd like to see you cover everything. Maybe do it in parts, like a series.

[@robinpierrebaessler]

Microsoft's Mistakes as fast as possible Please

[@robinpierrebaessler]

xD

[@Flyingsquirrel69420]

Great video guys, super interesting

[@JackieBright]

I still use my windows me laptop just to play space cadet pinball

[@gwgux]

You should go into the Berkley Software Distribution. That's an interesting history topic and it's responsible for a lot of code that computers use today, especially OSX.

[@brbbiobreak]

"very angry" quite the creative licence there. 1:00

[@brandinsider4527]

thats a really good video, thanks for sharing this content.

[@jschroedl983]

Windows phone wasn't a misstep

[@ZILtoid1991]

As a proud user of a Nokia Lumia 925 (which has a pretty good battery), I have to agree with you. Could have been the perfect middle road between Apple and Android, but ended up more closed than Apple.

[@jschroedl983]

László Szerémi I would go back to my lumia 833 if you could run certain android apps on it

[@sheiber]

I am so glad to have a phone which is directly connected to my PC and laptop. All MS Office products run perfectly on the Windows Phone and I don't experience as much bugs as on my Android phone

[@MikevanLieshout]

I used android before windows phone and with windows it's awesome that the simple things just work like they should

[@rjfaber1991]

I'm using a WP10 phone now, and by all means, it's a very decent and usable mobile OS. It just feels a bit hastily thrown together with no real sense of purpose however, and that's why I still have very fond memories of when I used WP7 (which I did for about five years), because that was an OS that was truly visionary. Arguably MS went too far with it and that restricted its market appeal, but for true ease-of-use and consumer-friendly design, nothing tops WP7.

[@bungholio81]

Good vid, I really like things like this, the history of computing is extremely interesting. More please :)

[@gamer34551]

Clippy!

[@YowFengNyon]

this brings back so much memories. god i'm so old.

[@Xeph0r]

History of Linux!!!

[@joep8520]

I would very much like to see a modern history of Microsoft episode. Good fun!

[@ThePieas]

history of linux or GNU ....

[@AlexVasiluta]

Pieas Asif yees

[@FluffyPuppyKasey]

It's GNU/Linux

[@AlexVasiluta]

Will Dresner this is the normal full name, people just call it simply linux because they want to put it short

[@brandinsider4527]

i really enjoyed watching this video. very informative

[@Jameshair007]

well all you have to know about Microsoft since 2001 is they created the zune and used it to kill off iTunes.

[@Atom44wat]

Dig into the issues with Vista and the beginnings of MS getting into the mobile phone space (Nokia)

[@DoomWalker42]

Do Blue Screen of Death as quickly as possible! those were awful with Windows xp!

[@AlexVasiluta]

Tom Brown and they still are on Windows 10 sometimes.... Left your Laptop awake all nght? We'll throw a BSOD at you!

[@rjfaber1991]

If you think bluescreens were awful with XP, you clearly never used one of the 9x Windows versions...

[@joesterling4299]

Then you didn't know how to set it up properly. XP is the first consumer-level OS based on the rock-stable Windows NT. App-level code cannot bring down the OS. Only system-level code, such as bad drivers, can do that. Once you clean up all your drivers, and assuming your hardware works properly, the BSODs go away permanently. I've had an XP machine for over 15 years, often running for months without a shutdown for weather, going on vacation, or whatever. This OS does not crash.

[@fahrenheit2310]

MS-DOS: I'm your Father Windows 10: *NOOOOOOOOOO*

[@mccarthyp64]

First

[@bigwinnerinc6604]

mccarthyp64 damn it!!!

[@feloria1862]

mccarthyp64 grats

[@sethbingo]

mccarthyp64 Gee Gee

[@TerrySterling-Thatguy]

you should do all of the big three modern operating systems

[@keco185]

Screw microsoft. bow down to Richard Stallman.

[@robertdowneyjr.9424]

Bad manners

[@inkinen]

Windows 2000 was a really good os. It was so stable that i my computer rebooted only when the power went out.

[@kennybiel4832]

I understand why you omit Microsoft Bob, but OS/2, Windows NT (4 in particular) and Windows 2000 were significant milestones.

[@TobiG4mer]

I don't understand why people dislike videos of objective information...

[@Beansman-gp3ws]

cuz it got things wrong or left important parts out, which thi video definitely did

[@Chris_The_Sam_Man]

I would suggest 'The History of Microsoft (2002-2016)' as the next part of this video.

[@SirGeraltMC]

Maybe do three videos split up as followed Microsoft (Xbox 2001-2016) Microsoft (OS 2001-2016) Microsoft (Hardware 2001-2016)

[@MesoJevlar]

Windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, ME are based on MS-DOS and Windows NT3, NT4, NT5 (2000), NT5.1 (XP) are based on the NT-kernel (mentioned in the video). The history about Microsoft's development of NT from OS/2 and the filthy war between IBM and Microsoft could have been mentioned as well. IBM OS/2 Warp was a more sophisticated operating system than the NT-versions in the 90's.

[@neiltsakatsa]

Please cover the topic of C# vs. Java, which one is better ?

[@cmusic52]

I say break it into history of MS Hardware products and software and then modern OS's as you covered

[@ravimaurya2533]

Make a video about 2010 to 2017 and the future of Microsoft... And by the way really liked this video. Please do make this video. :)

[@ed-edd-n-eddy]

Talk about how the Zune was actually a solid product.

[@mistaecco]

I'm impressed you didn't mention Microsoft BOB

[@1697djh]

Gates and Allen never had an Altair to write basic on

[@Turbo614]

life becomes boring without learning....thank you for not letting me get bored :)

[@TimVels]

Wow learnt a lot today!

[@Knight_Astolfo]

History of the Microsoft Surface. Not the new stuff they call surface, but that freaking giant screen-table that was supposed to revolutionize everything from how we pay for meals (just drop your credit card on the table and divide the check up through a simple GUI) to how we play D&D (or maybe that's just why I wanted it.) I think the product was being discussed like 2006 or so, but I never actually saw any of them.

[@uthmanbaksh3530]

That iconic Space Cadet pinball game. You don't know what you had until it's gone!

[@Hier00]

Hey, would you mind doing an episode on power-line communication? Thanks.

[@TheNthPeterLEE]

we've came a long way..., hope R&D developments will continue

[@jeevahacoelho6556]

This episode was awesome, i don't think you guys should limit your content just because of the name of the channel. And yeah i want a tech longie episode of Microsoft, and even Apple or Samsung.

[@ianhamilton350]

It's worth noting that Gates and Allen didn't own or have access to an Altair 8800 when they wrote Altair BASIC. Allen wrote an emulator for the machine for them to develop their software on and the first time it was run on native hardware was at Altair headquarters when they were pitching the product to Altair. Pretty damn impressive.

[@tkenietz]

lol, the Zune. I still have that old brick laying around somewhere...

[@Dr.SHERIFF]

the history of LinusTechTips

[@perfectdiversion]

continue the history of Microsoft please

[@VicodinElmo]

I killed Paul Allen with an axe in the face, his body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen.

[@RadimentriX]

i'd prefer this vid as a tech-longy... how about a part 2? :3 also i like my lumia 1320 with windows :3

[@NeedlessMemeing]

do an entire episode dedicated to windows vista, the best os since windows me.

[@HaydenX]

I actually thought that the Bandai-Apple Pippin had an HDD...I was wrong...and quite surprised about it.