[url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/10/happy_20th_birthday_microsoft_bob/[/url]
[url]http://winfuture.de/news,86179.html[/url] (German language)
[quote=The Register]Tuesday, 10 March 2015, is a day of infamy, for on that day in 1995 Microsoft gave the world Bob, the “social interface” for Windows 3.x and 95.
In 1995 PCs were nowhere as ubiquitous as they are today, not least because they weren't very easy to use. Microsoft knew that Windows 3.x wasn't welcoming the rising numbers of first-time home PC buyers: the operating system's unlovely GUI was illogical and unpleasant. Bob was an attempt to give users something easier to understand.
For a time, Bob development ran in parallel with Windows 95. So while Microsoft was working on the Start button it was also coding Bob's cartoon home interface.[/quote]
And here I thought sharing my birthday with Bin Laden was bad enough already
But when is Sams birthday Microsoft??
Bob's a misunderstood person. He just wanted to be helpful.
[QUOTE=markedOne;47297500]But when is Sams birthday Microsoft??[/QUOTE]
SAPI.dll (MS Speech API 4.0), Sam's debut, was sometime in 1998.
But of course he didn't take off in his roflcopter until 2000/XP's SAPI 5.0
microsoft bob spawned the creation of comic sans as well
[QUOTE=Ellistron;47297682]microsoft bob spawned the creation of comic sans as well[/QUOTE]
It was actually: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat[/url]
I used to love this program as a kid. I always used the rat.
When is Clippy's birthday?
This is such a strange program. It was just a "friendly" interface for the OS for people who don't know computers, and yet it provided hours of fun for me as a kid just decorating rooms. It was a simpler time...
[video=youtube;DtaduB1qRjk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtaduB1qRjk[/video]
Happy birthday, Bob.
I still prefer Ark Navigator. Feels so much more professional.
[img]http://toastytech.com/guis/pbnav35arkmap.png[/img][img]http://toastytech.com/guis/pbnav35arkfoyer.png[/img]
[img]http://toastytech.com/guis/pbnav35livingroom.png[/img][img]http://toastytech.com/guis/pbnav35workspace.png[/img]
happy birthday bob! To celebrate, let's try to kill google+ again.
Oh man, this reminds me, we used to have something similar to bob, and ark navigator, on our old compa, except it was a mall instead of a home. Anyone know what I'm talking about? It's been bugging me for ages
I remember someone livestreamed decorating the room on twitch
brings back memories
also ark navigator was awesome
How old is that wizard thing? Hell I think it was just clippy with a skin, but it has been so long since I used it
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