Windows Pioneers
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The Windows Pioneers are the seven individuals who received awards from Microsoft
in 1994 in recognition of their contributions to Microsoft Windows
. Bill Gates
presented each pioneer with an award.
The seven Windows Pioneers were:
Microsoft
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in 1994 in recognition of their contributions to Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
. Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...
presented each pioneer with an award.
The seven Windows Pioneers were:
- Alan CooperAlan CooperAlan Cooper is known for his role in humanizing technology through his groundbreaking work in software design. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic," Cooper is the author of the books, About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why...
– Known as the father of Visual BasicVisual BasicVisual Basic is the third-generation event-driven programming language and integrated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model...
. - Lyle Griffin – Created Micrografx Designer, the earliest graphics application for Windows.
- Joe Guthridge – Led development of Samna AmíAmíAmi was the name of a word processing program developed and marketed by Samna in the late 1980s. It was the first WYSIWYG word processor and was an obvious threat to command driven word processors such as WordPerfect and Microsoft Word who borrowed their use model from the Wang word processor...
, the first Windows word processorWord processorA word processor is a computer application used for the production of any sort of printable material....
, later renamed Lotus Word ProLotus Word ProLotus Word Pro is word processor software produced by IBM's Lotus Software group for use on Microsoft Windows-compatible computers and on IBM OS/2 Warp. Word Pro can be obtained as part of the Lotus SmartSuite office suite.... - Ted Johnson – Led the development of PageMakerAdobe PageMakerPageMaker was one of the first desktop publishing programs, introduced in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, initially for the then-new Apple Macintosh and in 1987 for PCs running Windows 1.0....
desktop publishing software. Co-founder of Visio CorporationVisio CorporationVisio Corporation was a software company based in Seattle, Washington. Its principal product was a diagramming application software of the same name. It was acquired by Microsoft and is now in a division of that company, which continues to develop the application under the name Microsoft...
. - Ian Koenig – Led the development of the ReutersReutersReuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
Terminal financial information software. - Ray OzzieRay OzzieRaymond "Ray" Ozzie is an American software industry entrepreneur who held the positions of Chief Technical Officer and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft between 2005 and 2010...
– Created Lotus NotesLotus NotesLotus Notes is the client of a collaborative platform originally created by Lotus Development Corp. in 1989. In 1995 Lotus was acquired by IBM and became known as the Lotus Development division of IBM and is now part of the IBM Software Group...
. Would later (2005-2010) serve as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect. - Charles PetzoldCharles PetzoldCharles Petzold is an American programmer and technical author on Microsoft Windows applications. He is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional....
– Author of Programming Windows series from Microsoft PressMicrosoft PressMicrosoft Press is the publishing arm of Microsoft, usually releasing books dealing with various current Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Press' first introduced books were The Apple Macintosh Book by Cary Lu and Exploring the IBM PC by Peter Norton in 1984 at the West Coast Computer Faire...
, as well as many other classic programming books for Microsoft.
External links
- Cooper Consulting
- Ted Johnson bio on Microsoft's site
- Charles Petzold's site