My Windows Experience

Posted on by wooway

On the eve of Windows 7 Launch.  I try to collect pieces of my Windows experience, started from 1991 in the computer lab of my university.

Windows 1.0 1991, Lab, SUT
 
Windows 2.0
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1 1992, 1st computer company I worked for
                     
Windows 3.11 1994, a customer’s office
                     
Windows 95 & OSR 1995, Tulip Computers
 
Windows 98 1998, DELL
 
Windows 2000 2000, DELL
 
Windows ME installed a couple times, but never really used
Windows XP 2002, 1st company I worked in Canada
 
Windows Vista installed once (beta), but never really used
Windows 7 2009, on my home computer
 

Screen sources:

http://www.withinwindows.com/2008/12/05/windows-7-to-be-first-windows-to-report-real-boot-progress/
http://neverblog.net/20-years-of-windows-boot-screens/
http://kartones.net/blogs/kartones/archive/2007/05/27/offtopic-windows-boot-screens.aspx
http://www.betanews.com/slideshow/Windows-95-Remembered/54/7
http://www.freewarefiles.com/screenshot.php?programid=5565

Other links:

http://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-61343-1.html?tag=content;leftCol

http://tashiwangdi.blogspot.com/2009/02/evolution-of-windows.html

http://aboutdev.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/running-virtual-server-2005-on-windows-7/

“The New Efficiency” Launch Event

Posted on by wooway
Microsoft will launch Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Exchange Server 2010 all together on October 12th, they call it the new efficiency launch event.  This made me recall last time they launched three products in year 2000.  I was the guest speaker in the roadshow when Microsoft China launched Windows 2000 Server, Exchange Server 2000 and SQL Server 2000.  As a product manager from Compaq, then key partner of Microsoft, I travelled with MS guys to Suzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou and Wuhan for two weeks, delivered the ProLiant Advantage presentations of the Compaq ProLiant server and StorageWorks to thousands of people from partners and customers.  ProLiant was the key platform MS developed and tested their server systems on.  One and a half year later, ProLiant became the flagship of new HPQ, and I started my transformation too.  Maybe, in several years, I will move back to product marketing or technical sales.  Who knows.