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	Factiva
		Bob is designed to be immediately useful to home PC users, providing the essential tools for home computing in eight interconnected programs that help users organize, communicate and play with their computers.
		Bob is an alternative to the paper-based systems used in most homes, such as marked-up handwritten lists, tattered address books, misplaced calendars, and "sticky notes" on or falling from refrigerators.
		Bob is expected to be available on March 31, 1995, for approximately $99.
	blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com /microsoft/library/bob.html (1345 words)

	Microsoft Bob - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Microsoft Bob was a product released by Microsoft in March 1995 as an adventure game-like interface for performing tasks on one's computer.
		Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has admitted as much, naming Bob as one project "we [had] undertaken...
		Microsoft originally had the domain name bob.com for the product but traded it to Bob Kerstein for the windows2000.com domain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Microsoft_Bob (459 words)

	Workbench: microsoft bob
		I'm one of the only people who has gone on record with my love for Microsoft Bob, the mid-'90s product that has unjustly come to be known as one of the greatest disasters in software history.
		A third book, Microsoft Bob for Dummies, was cancelled by Wiley prior to publication, robbing technical literature of a book that would have been an enduring classic.
		Clippy, the hated Microsoft Office Assistant, is a direct descendant of Microsoft Bob.
	www.cadenhead.org /workbench/tag/microsoft-bob (1085 words)

	Bob is dead; long live Bob
		Bob was a noble, if failed, experiment, and one from which the computer industry can take some valuable lessons.
		Microsoft Bob, an early "user interface," a smiley face with glasses, was introduced in January 1995.
		The closest Microsoft has ever come to a proper eulogy was a passing reference in a January 1997 column by Bill Gates: "Unfortunately, the software demanded more performance than typical computer hardware could deliver at the time and there wasn't an adequately large market," he wrote.
	www.post-gazette.com /businessnews/19990523bob6.asp (975 words)

	Augusta, Georgia: technology@ugusta: Microsoft's Bob lingers in new programs 2/2/97
		Microsoft Bob, that is. One of the shortest-lived software titles the company has ever marketed.
		Bob was designed by Karen Fries and Barry Linnett, two Microsoft programmers who developed, and patented, the ``help wizard'' concept used by most of the company's products.
		Within Microsoft, though, programmers were listening to the speeches about user interfaces and approached the Bob group for ideas.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/020397/tech_bob.html (528 words)

	Online NewsHour: Microsoft Ruling -- April 3, 2000
		Microsoft's Bob Herbold responds to the decision that Microsoft is a monopoly.
		One theory was that Microsoft, after properly achieving a position of preeminence in the operating system market, proceeded to use improper tactics to increase its control in that market.
		Microsoft has a confident belief that the appellate judges will view its position more sympathetically, and even if they don't sweep aside all of Judge Jackson's conclusions, in many respects, they'll deal a fatal blow to the government's arguments.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/cyberspace/jan-june00/microsoft_law_4-3.html (1358 words)

	Microsoft Bob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Microsoft Bob was created in January 95, as a user interface.
		Bob's failure in the marketplace to date is that people don't buy anything unless they recognize a need for it.
		Bob's sort of the equivalent of OS/2 Warp for the low end; it supposedly improves the operation of your computer and includes neat applications.
	mason.gmu.edu /~anaeem/edseldraft (666 words)

	MICROSOFT
		Microsoft is scheduled to release a new version of its Windows operating system, Windows Vista (formerly known as 'Longhorn') in the second half of 2006, although it has been recently announced that the operating system may not reach consumers until January of 2007.
		Managers at Microsoft are expected to have a general attitude of long-term strategic and to be ready for any challenge from the competition or the market, and to keep in mind that being the largest software company in the world is not seen as a form of safety or a guarantee of future success.
		Microsoft has also been called a "velvet sweatshop" in reference to allegations of the company working its employees to the point where it might be bad for their health.
	www.solarnavigator.net /sponsorship/microsoft.htm (6623 words)

	Microsoft Bob
		Bob required a minimum of a 486 with 8 megs of ram, 30 megs of free disk space, and 256 color VGA.
		Bob was not useful enough to justify its initial sale price of almost $100.
		Microsoft Bob can be run as a regular application or it can be set to start up automatically when the computer starts.
	www.toastytech.com /guis/bob.html (476 words)

	Microsoft Bob - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft software product, released in March 1995, which provided a new, nontechnical interface to desktop computing operations.
		Microsoft Bob was intended to be a user-friendly interface for Microsoft Windows version 3.2, replacing the Program Manager.
		Microsoft originally owned the domain name bob.com, but traded it to Bob Kerstein for the windows2000.com domain.
	duggmirror.com /microsoft/Happy_Birthday_BOB_2 (580 words)

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		After Microsoft Bob had spent about an hour on the phone with Dan learning how to use Microsoft Graph, Dan asked for a refund since he had no more time to spend on the problem.
		Microsoft charges a flat rate per "solution," which is a single problem and can be handled in multiple phone calls.
		Like Microsoft Bob, Ray quickly informed us that he wasn't fully up to date on the programs that we were working with, but he was willing to help us anyway.
	www.mit.edu /people/jcb/humor/microsoft-psychic-friends (1722 words)

	Microsoft Bob - DriverHeaven.net
		"Bob" was designed to replace the desktop of Windows 3.1 and 95 with an interface designed mainly for novices and children.
		Bob really makes it easy and enjoyable to use your home PC to manage your home because you get personalized help from the Personal Guides within Bob.
		Bob gives you on centralized place to keep track of everything and the links between the programs make it even easier to stay organized.
	www.driverheaven.net /showthread.php?t=29975 (244 words)

	Smart Computing Article - Meet Microsoft Bob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The folks at Microsoft Corp. are betting the answer to the ‘90s version of that Rex Harrison-sung question, "Why can't a computer be more like a person," is Bob.
		Bob guides are smart enough to remember what modules you used in the past and whether they should be giving you tips or staying out of your way.
		Microsoft suggests using it to track your "goals for the year" or to "build a list of must-have items to take with you on a vacation." Certainly in the next version both modules need to be beefed up.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/article.asp?article=articles/1995/apr95/pcn0415/pcn0415.asp&guid=yq7kkfl8 (2263 words)

	InformationWeek \| Business Innovation Powered By Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This another bungled Microsoft foray onto the "stealth marketing" battlefield, where they have been getting their butt kicked lately by word-of-mouth endeavors like Google and Ubuntu (and for ages by Apple).
		Microsoft is really the stupid company who never listens but tells its users how great their company are.
		If its not mobile its not wanted so unless Microsoft was trying to turn the tide this one is doomed to failure and the happless companies who decided to back it hopefully have a way of backing out now.
	informationweek.com /blog/main/archives/2006/03/origami_or_micr.html (3198 words)

	Microsoft Agent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Microsoft developers and executives thought this was good and sought to replicate it on the desktop, albeit with the goal of writing standard letters, making spreadsheets, and easing into using a computer, instead of gaining the love of another person.
		Microsoft still has groups working on Bayesian algorithms and software agents, and they seem to be paying more attention to the annoying interruption issues, if their reported research can be used as an indicator.
		Microsoft also has people who are very much aware of the issues behind peripheral movement and have developed information awareness software which bypasses the problem completely, such as Sidebar in the Aero user interface or User Experience for Windows Vista.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Microsoft_Agent (967 words)

	Microsoft - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Microsoft (comes from the German words "micro schaft", meaning "small twit", and, quite appropriately, was coined by Bill Gates' first wife on their wedding night), a now defunct software company, was a victim to rampant software piracy.
		Microsoft Copulations was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1882 by Benny Hill and Margaret Thatcher to turn Hill's doctoral work at MIT on ambiguous computing architectures into a commercial product called the Confusion Machine.
		Microsoft is a contraction of "Mike Rowe Software", named after the CEO who was born in 2101 and took over the old "Copulations" company at the age of one, brilliantly turning it around as an acquisitive, monopolistic money-grabbing behemoth.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Microsoft (4461 words)

	Strategymag.com - Microsoft's Bob is new family member (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Microsoft will launch a user-friendly product March 31 into the home computer market designed to be part of the family.
		Bob consists of eight home computing programs made easy to use for the entire family through cartoon characters and desktops or screens designed as changeable room settings.
		Bob's program icons are arranged in room settings that can be personalized from a choice of more than 40 combinations.
	www.strategymag.com /articles/magazine/19950123/10078.html (342 words)

	IT Conversations: Bob Wyman
		Bob Wyman has been developing innovative, industry leading products for almost 25 years.
		During this time, Bob represented DEC on the European Economic Commission's PCTE Interface Management Board and was a member of the European Computer Manufacturer's Association (ECMA) Technical Committee 33, developing standards for the Portable Common Tools Environments (PCTE).
		Bob moved to Microsoft in 1991, becoming Senior Product Manager for Applications Programmability in the Visual Basic group and was responsible for driving the first versions of what was then called "Macro Manager" but has since grown into OLE Automation, Active/X, etc. -- the first widely used and practical architecture for implementing reusable code components.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail655.html (706 words)

	Microsoft Clarifies Bob Trademark Policies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The new licensing program, called Microsoft TrueName™, offers persons who want to continue being known by the name Bob the option of doing so, with the payment of a small monthly licensing fee and upon signing a release form promising never to use OpenDoc.
		As an added bonus, Bob name licensees will also be authorized to display the Windows 95 logo on their bodies.
		Microsoft also announced today that Bob™ Harbold, its Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, has become the first Microsoft TrueName licensee and will have the Windows 95 logo tattooed to his forehead.
	www.beeker.com /htm_links/humor/links_humor_microsoft_bob.htm (305 words)

	Microsoft Bob - OldVersion.com Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Microsoft Bob is a shell for Windows 3.x and higher that was marketed for the novice user.
		Microsoft Bob was also the beginning of the Office Assistant as there were many characters that would guide you around your "home".
		The only thing about Office is that the Office Assistant was based around the Microsoft Bob guides.
	www.oldversion.com /talk/showthread.php?t=161 (243 words)

	Business: Redefining Microsoft (Seattle Weekly)
		In 1993, Microsoft hoped to appeal to the masses of "multimedia PC" buyers (that is, PCs with both a CD-ROM drive and a sound card, revolutionary at the time) by introducing a line of software called Microsoft Home.
		Microsoft's Smartphone initiative took a hit late last year when U.K. handset maker and longtime Smartphone supporter Sendo abruptly dropped the Microsoft operating system for one made by a rival.
		"Microsoft's biggest challenge is its size, its cross-matrix structure, and constant reorganization," says Pam Miller, a public-relations executive and former PR consultant to Microsoft.
	www.seattleweekly.com /2003-07-23/news/redefining-microsoft.php (1544 words)

	Death at the Hands of Microsoft Bob (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		REDMOND, Wa - The Microsoft Redmond Campus was rocked by tragedy today as Paul Fitzgerald, Test Engineer on the Windows NT Team, was brutally murdered in an apparently psychotic tirade by one of the "personalities" of Microsoft's latest operating system shell program, Bob.
		The beast was quickly subdued by Microsoft Campus Security upon failing to produce a valid Microsoft keycard, avoiding what could otherwise have been a tragedy of much greater proportions.
		Microsoft Legal could not be reached for comment, but an undisclosed source asserted "We couldn't have him puffing away like that.
	www.cs.bgu.ac.il /~omri/Humor/ms.bob.death.html (331 words)

	MacAddict Forums / Microsoft Bob was real! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But i remember the funniest thing about it was the outraged letters to the magazines telling horror stories about attempts to remove BOB from their systems that resulted in total failure, and loss of the OS.
		You encounter the last remnants of Bob each time you run into Clippy or any of the other help personalities in MS Office97 or newer (so, yes, you have a bit of MS Bob on your Mac if you are using MS Office98 [or newer] for the Mac.
		IIRC, Microsoft Bob was about the only thing Microsoft ever created in-house, without buying/sneaking/stealing/etc. But then, I think At Ease came first, so not even that might be true.
	www.macaddict.com /forums/post/602318 (1280 words)

	Microsoft BOB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Um das Prinzip von BOB näher kennen zu lernen, hab ich ein kleines 20-teiliges "Lernprogramm" erstellt
		BOB wird ganz normal unter Win 3.1x installiert, es kann sogar automatisch nach Windows geladen werden.
		Ein nicht wirkliches BOB Programm ist das Backup-Programm, es scheint nach einer gewissen Zeit von selbst zu starten und speichert die benutzerdefinierten Einstellungen auf einem Verzeichnis der Festplatte.
	www.winhistory.de /more/bob/bob.htm (1114 words)

	RedOrbit - Technology - Microsoft's Bob Muglia Announces Great Strides Forward for the Dynamic Systems Initiative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With Microsoft's continued commitment, and with partner support and implementation of the WS-Management specification, Microsoft is leading the way in driving standardization that will help streamline how management and development tools communicate operational information across distributed systems.
		Signaling Microsoft's commitment to the promise of System Center, Muglia also said the next version of MOM and SMS will be renamed to align with System Center.
		Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
	www.redorbit.com /news/technology/481498/microsofts_bob_muglia_announces_great_strides_forward_for_the_dynamic/index.html?source=r_technology (1057 words)

	Microsoft Bob [Archive] - OldVersion.com Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Louie C. Microsoft Bob is a shell for Windows 3.x and higher that was marketed for the novice user.
		Yep, MS Bob was even worse than I imagined -- especially the purple speaking elephant that is in the geography game.
		I exited, and then went back to it later, and the sounds were gone from Bob and the only way I could exit out of the program was to manually end the task or hope for a program crash.
	www.oldversion.com /talk/archive/index.php/t-161.html (1994 words)

	Mini-Microsoft: Bob Herbold, The "Fiefdom Syndrome," and Bob's Message to Microsoft
		Herbold isn't outright calling for massive layoffs and reorganizations at Microsoft, but his book does cover how you have to look out for parts of your organization that grow and then put intensive effort in to justify their current size and even try to grow more.
		I'm pretty sure he means Microsoft because we started that given all the good people leaving the company and all the bad clunkers we really need to fire but don't seem to have the gumption to.
		Herbold's hesitant observation during his presentation: yes, Microsoft has indeed hired a lot of people since the year 2000 and their focus, and their purpose, is very unclear.
	minimsft.blogspot.com /2005/06/bob-herbold-fiefdom-syndrome-and-bobs.html (5294 words)

	Bill Gates' Legacy: Microsoft's Top 10 Flops
		BOB was Microsoft's first foray into making user interfaces more interactive and intuitive.
		Microsoft recently decided to make Tablet PC functionality part of the base Windows Vista operating system, rather than to continue to champion it as a separate SKU.
		Of all the QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) derivatives, it seems to be the 4.0 release that Microsoft historians recall as the buggiest nightmare.
	www.microsoft-watch.com /article2/0,2180,1977870,00.asp (1400 words)

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