6/5/2015
`
`E: Microsoft
`
`A history of Windows - Microsoft Windows
`
`1° 5‘9" i"
`
`A history of Windows
`
`1975-1981
`1982—1985
`1937—1990
`19904994
`1995—1998
`
`1998—2000
`2001—2005
`2005-2003
`2009—2011
`
`2012—2013
`2013
`
`__ T:
`
`‘
`
`.
`‘
`
`7
`
`
`and domain networking support and, for the first time, PCs
`
`1990—1994: Windows 3.0—Windows NT—Getting the graphics
`1-.
`7 R
`.
`
`W'”d°W5 3'0
`On May 22, 1990, Microsoft announces Windows 3.0, followed
`shortly by Windows 3.1 in 1992. Taken together, they sell 10
`million copies in their first two years, making this the most
`widely used Windows operating system yet. The scale of this
`success causes Microsoft to revise earlier plans. Virtual
`Memory improves visual graphics. In 1990 Windows starts to
`look like the versions to come.
`
`.
`
`_
`
`@ “1.th m 1%
`ow”. mom, sompmm mm ”mm“
`
`m5
`Mv‘kfig‘flwm”:
`
`WWmMM
`V
`
`-
`,
`
`-
`
`l‘
`
`is?
`
`The Windows 3.0 desktop
`
`Windows now has significantly better performance, advanced
`graphics with 16 colors, and improved icons. A new wave of
`386 PC5 helps drive the popularity of Windows 3.0. With full
`support for the Intel 386 processor, programs run noticeably
`faster. Program Manager, File Manager, and Print Manager
`arrive in Windows 3.0.
`
`Windows software is installed with floppy discs bought in
`large boxes with heavy instruction manuals.
`
`The popularity of Windows 3.0 grows with the release of a
`new Windows software development kit (SDK), which helps
`software developers focus more on writing programs and less
`on writing device drivers.
`
`Windows is increasingly used at work and home and now
`includes games like Solitaire, Hearts, and Minesweeper. An
`advertisement: “Now you can use the incredible power of
`Windows 3.0 to goof off.”
`
`Windows for Workgroups 3.11 adds peer—to—peer workgroup
`
`Bill Gates shows the newly-released Windows 3.0
`
`become an integral part of the emerging client/server
`computing evolution.
`
`Windows NT
`
`When Windows NT releases on July 27, 1993, Microsoft meets an important milestone: the completion of a project begun in the
`late 19805 to build an advanced new operating system from scratch. "Windows NT represents nothing less than a fundamental
`change in the way that companies can address their business computing requirements," Bill Gates says at its release.
`
`Unlike Windows 3.1, however, Windows NT 3.1 is a 32—bit operating system, which makes it a strategic business platform that
`supports high—end engineering and scientific programs.
`
`Geek trivia: The group that develops Windows NT was originally called the "Portable Systems" team.
`
`Last updated November, 2013
`
`http://windowsmicrosoft.com/en—usANindows/history#T1=era3
`
`Samsung v. Straight Path, |PR2014—01367
`Straight Path _ Exhibit 2014 _ Page 1
`
`Samsung v. Straight Path, IPR2014-01367
`Straight Path - Exhibit 2014 - Page 1
`
`