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Bill Gates
Chairman And CEO
Microsoft Corporation
European OEM Briefing
April, 16th 1992
Monte Carlo
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Bill Gates
Chairman And CEO
Microsoft Corporation
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PC Is Becoming Central To Computing
* Hardware costs/power
* Proven "track record"
* Software capabilities
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Technologie Driving Costs Down
 | Intro. | Clock | After 2 years | MIPS |
80386 | 1986 | 16 | 33 | 5 - 10 |
80486 | 1989 | 25 | 50 | 15 - 30 |
80486 DX2 | 1992 | 50 | 100 | 30 - 60 |
80586 | 1992 | 66 | 133 | 60 - 120 |
Technologie has never flowed so efficiently to the user
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Personal Computers For Individual And Corporate Computing
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Windows Strategy
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Market Perspective
 | Installed
base | Annual run
rate 1992 |
| 9.0 M
96.0 M | 9.2 M
24.3 M |
| 6.5 M
1.0 M
1.2 M | 2.2 M
.4 M
.7 M |
Source IDC, October 1991
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Graphical Application
1990-91 sales
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Microsoft Windows
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System Architecture

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System Architecture

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WOSA Services
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* Data Access
* Messaging
* Distributed file
* Print services
* Directory services
* Distributed security
* Systems management
* Licensing
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Systems Open Process
Design previews
* Object linking and embedding 2.0, Aug '91
* Messaging API 1.0 (MAPI), Oct '91
* Open database connectivity (ODBC), Nov '91
* Windows user interface, Feb '92
* Object linking and embedding 2.0, Mar '92
* Multimedia synchronization and filtering, Q1 '92
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Windows Open Services Architecture - WOSA
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Information At Your Fingertips
What is it?
* File, retrieve, and browse information easily
* Access information independent of its location
* Integrate various kinds of information
* PC as an information "appliance"
* A distributed, object-oriented vision
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OLE 2.0: Richer Integration
Make objects behave more like a part of the dokument, less like foreign bodies
* In-place editing
* Drag-and-drop
* Layout negotiation
* Property inheritance
* Search, spell check
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OLE 2.0: Architectural Improvements
* Enabling programmability of applications
- Standard way to expose commands
- Macro recording and playback engine
* Protocol extensibility
- Negotiable object capabilities
- Dynamic loading of handlers
* Efficient handling of large objects
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Windows Cairo Overview
* Integrated object management system
* Integrated information services
* Native distributed computing model
* Standard systems management
* Object-based user interface
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Object Filing System
* Core technological advance
* Combination data management and file system
* Central system data store
* Extensible with new objects
* Distributed, secure, replicated
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Windows Cairo:User Shell
* Object-centric
* Property Sheets
* Content and property-based query
* Containment and query for all data
* Network-enabled
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Programming In The `90s
* Developers use higher level tools
* More user participation
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C,C++
Visual Basic,
Microsoft database
Microsoft Excel,
Microsoft Word macros
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Operating Systems Comparison
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Operating Systems Comparison
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Windows Lets OEMs Innovate
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Windows For OEMs
* Help sell system
* Preinstall
* Advance video, sound, and networking
* Share in marketing programs with logo
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Windows Computer And Consumer Opportunities
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