Evaluation:
Published: 22.12.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'The Start of the PC Industry', 1.
Extract

Module 1
Section 3
3.2<Tab/>Microsoft Sets the Trend
1.<Tab/>Gates and Allen took an existing product and adapted it to make it a Microsoft product. The same happened with DOS, and much of the Windows interface is borrowed from the Macintosh one.
2.<Tab/>BASIC was originally run on mainframes and through Gates's and Allen's efforts it could now be run on a microcomputer.
3.<Tab/>Microsoft establishing a standard for the industry as a whole. The Microsoft motto has long been 'We set the standard.'
4.<Tab/>Gates and Al…

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