Provision of Universal Desking Software for decades, Microsoft Came for jibs, mockery and even hatred, even if it helped millions of people do everything.
Each design solution is felt all over the world for the better or worse – it often remains with people for years as a pleasant memory or meme.
Here are some ways Microsoft noted the computational culture:
The blue screen of death
Match from the very first versions of Windows – If these days are mercifully rare – the blue screen of death or BSOD, it is displayed when the Microsoft operating system faces a fatal mistake in the program or the app becomes not responding.
Most often it was a complete blue screen with white text – originally composed by Steve Balmer, which later continued to manage the company – a warning about the problem.
Some screen versions include error codes that help power users find out what’s wrong.
Later editions Windows added a sad smile to a clear application for compassion.
Although he often offered the opportunity to continue working, closing the program or restarting the computer, many users have found the only way to avoid it, it is manually disconnecting the car and again.
Blessed background
In the depths of fresh air from the previous versions of Windows, users who download the 2001 edition were presented by the vision of lush, sun -invited hills under the bright blue sky.
For many who grew up using computers in the 1990s and 2000s, the idyllic desktop is now reminiscent of extra-school games or using online chat programs to talk to your friends.
The Vinny Industry Photographer Chuck O’Rarr took what was called “The most considered picture in the world” in 1996, after driving a place in California in the Sonom District, where the vines were torn to fight the pest of Filaxer.
The main “blessed”, the background can still be seen in the wild today in systems that have not been updated, and gave birth to endless memes, parodies, and now II imagine what the rest of the stage may look.
Inviting tunes
2001 was far from Microsoft’s attempts to create a soothing environment for PC users.
The 1995 operating system was played by essential start -up chimes when the car worked in life.
Enchanted Startup -Guk Windows 95 was developed by the legend of electronic music Brian Eno, who told News Site Sfgate in 1996 that this work looked like a “tiny little value”.
It is presented to do this “inspiring, versatile, bla-ba, da-up, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional”, Eno made 84 clips before choosing the best-double-longer than the original short second.
“Useful” clip
Long before Chatgpt helped write essays or create emails, Microsoft tried to back up the users of its Office performance set with Smart Software.
From the end of the 1990s, the interactive animated character “Office” will appear to offer help in the task, which he believed at hand.
The best borrowed is the Chirpy PaperClip “Clippy”, whose often mistakenly suggests that the users need help by writing letters, giving rise to a million memes.
The assistant came out of research that suggests that users felt interaction with the computer as working with human colleagues.
Later he said “a truly tragic misunderstanding”, the designer of the interaction of Alan Cooper later.
“When people are going to respond to computers as if they are people, the only thing you don’t have to do is anthropomorize them,” he said TroupCaster G4TV.
However, nostalgic can find Clippy as a face -working chat, for Windows 11, built by Firecube developers.
Secret flight simulator
Microsoft produces a very detailed and favorite series of games, just called a “flight simulator” with recreation of real places and planes.
Office workers without a joystick and high -end graphic card can escape into a bizarre neon hilly landscape they could fly using only a mouse with a number of hidden inputs in Excel 97.
A scene, which also included loans for the spreadsheet program, is just one of the dozen hidden “Easter eggs” scattered on the company’s software over the decades.
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