The_Graphical_User_Interface_Revolution

The Graphical User Interface Revolution Today, more than 90 million copies of Microsoft Windows are used in businesses worldwide. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft Corporation, popularized the user of graphical user interfaces in the 1990s by introducing Microsoft Windows. As early as 1977, Gates realized the need for operating system changes. A key element missing in operating systems was the capability of application software to interface easily with a computer's input and output devices. Although he recognized the need for change, it was several years before Bill Gates and Microsoft Corporation would take action. At .A 1982 computer convention, VisiCorp Corporation demonstrated a software interface called VisiOn. VisiOn contained many of the operating system changes Gates had imagined. In response to VisiOn, Microsoft Corporation began the development of what was called the Interface Manager . A design team was formed and announcements were made that Microsoft was working on a product superior to VisiOn. The graphical user interface concept used to develop the Interface Manager was a descendent of the experimental versions of the graphical user interface from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center graphical, interface, revolution, microsoft, windows, interface, version, corporation, vision, released, operating, manager, user, system, gates, 95, 30, years, widely, three, software, recognized, personal, need, name, made, environment, development, computer's, changes, called, 1985, 1983, 31, year, xerox's, working, wide-