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	Microsoft Bob

slosd

12-17-2008 3:34 PM

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software, microsoft, windows 95

slosd says:

I just discovered this ancient microsoft software from 1995. It is the source of all the evil office assistants!!! Pfu, I'm glad to use Ubuntu

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0bdc4014-0781-4c5e-b068-a40a7ab46e3e/8F9489EB-F317-4B73-A4D1-D9EFF522B78D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html" href="http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html" style="font-size: 11px;">toastytech.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/toastytech.com/img/36C8D6EC-4857-47B5-97C5-E2539727FAD9" alt="slplash screen" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html"> in early 1995 Microsoft released a software program called "Bob"
designed to replace the desktop of Windows 3.1 and 95 with an interface
designed mainly for novice users.
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html"><P>Microsoft held a big advertising campaign and loaded up stores with
copies of Bob expecting huge sales. It totally flopped.
</P><P>A few possible reasons that Bob flopped:
</P><UL>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">
Bob required a minimum of a 486 with 8 megs of ram, 30 megs of free disk
space, and 256 color VGA. Many computers of the day did not meet these
minimum requirements.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">
It was too "cute" for the average PC users of the day.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">
Most people at the time who wanted ease of use would just get a Macintosh.</LI>
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Bob was not useful enough to justify its initial sale price of almost $100.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">
Windows 95, which was released later that year, had the new Windows Explorer
user interface which wiped the floor with Bob.</LI></UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8F9489EB-F317-4B73-A4D1-D9EFF522B78D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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