A bill gates photo(very funny)
areyoupp: This thread is bad and you should feel bad about it. It's so bad, in fact, that I'm going to shamelessly hijack it.
Microsoft Bob was one of the company's greatest failures. It was meant as a non-technical replacement for the desktop (?).
The main interface is portrayed as the inside of a house, with different rooms to correspond to common real-world room styles such as kitchen and family room. Each room can contain decorations and furniture, as well as icons that represent applications. Bob offers the user the option of fully customizing the entire house. The user has full control over decorating each room, and can add, remove, or reposition all objects. The user can also add or remove rooms from the house and change the destinations of each door. Bob offers multiple themes for room designs and decorations, such as contemporary and postmodern.
The applications built into Bob are represented by matching decorations - for example, clicking on a clock opens the calendar, while a pen and paper represent the letter writer. The user can also add shortcuts to applications on his or her computer. These shortcuts display the icon inside various styles of decorations such as boxes and picture frames.
Here's an example of it might look like
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/bob/index.html
And here's the punchline: At one point, the project was managed by Melinda French, who at the time was Bill Gates' girlfriend (the two later married). At the time French left Microsoft, she was Product Unit Manager for a group which included Bob and three other Microsoft titles. The project leader for Bob was Karen Fries, a Microsoft researcher.
Microsoft Bob was one of the company's greatest failures. It was meant as a non-technical replacement for the desktop (?).
The main interface is portrayed as the inside of a house, with different rooms to correspond to common real-world room styles such as kitchen and family room. Each room can contain decorations and furniture, as well as icons that represent applications. Bob offers the user the option of fully customizing the entire house. The user has full control over decorating each room, and can add, remove, or reposition all objects. The user can also add or remove rooms from the house and change the destinations of each door. Bob offers multiple themes for room designs and decorations, such as contemporary and postmodern.
The applications built into Bob are represented by matching decorations - for example, clicking on a clock opens the calendar, while a pen and paper represent the letter writer. The user can also add shortcuts to applications on his or her computer. These shortcuts display the icon inside various styles of decorations such as boxes and picture frames.
Here's an example of it might look like
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/bob/index.html
And here's the punchline: At one point, the project was managed by Melinda French, who at the time was Bill Gates' girlfriend (the two later married). At the time French left Microsoft, she was Product Unit Manager for a group which included Bob and three other Microsoft titles. The project leader for Bob was Karen Fries, a Microsoft researcher.
It would have been really cool
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/4/4f/Gnomehint.png
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/4/4f/Gnomehint.png
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