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Mar 29, 2010 … Easy: Compare it to Microsoft Bob. Bring up the infamous Windows 3.1 front-end for computing newbies–officially released fifteen years ago this …

Mar 29, 2010 … Here’s a walkthrough of some of its major features–take a look and judge for yourself. And don’t miss our history of Bob and insider’s look at …

Mar 29, 2010 … Sometimes those deals turned into ordeals– like the time when he purchased a PC that was preloaded with Packard Bell’s Microsoft Bob-like front …

Mar 31, 2010 … Like Bob, the Cube was launched with immense fanfare but sold poorly and died after a year. And it, too, is an albatross–one that will live …

Mar 29, 2010 … Tandy Trower spent 28 years at Microsoft, working on everything from Microsoft BASIC to Windows 1.0 to user interfaces to robotics.

Mar 29, 2010 … He dug through the archives and found a copy of Microsoft Bob. He took all the floppy disk images and combined them into one big file.

Jan 2, 2009 … The Secret Origins of Clippy … It’s hard to take Clippy, Microsoft Bob, and Windows XP’s Search Assistant doggie seriously. But a dozen years’ …

Jan 2, 2009 … … Microsoft Bob, the legendary, legendarily bad front-end for Windows 3.1. That dog is Rover, the cursed canine who lived on to serve as the …

Jan 2, 2009 … Google Patents holds proof of the serious effort that the company poured into ever-unpopular animated “helpers” like Clippy, Microsoft Bob, and the Search …

Jan 2, 2009 … … Microsoft, no DOS, no Windows, no Microsoft Mouse, no Microsoft Office, no Microsoft Bob, no MSN, no Clippy, no MSNBC, no Xbox, no Zune, no …