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Today is March 24, 2023, and on this day in 2016, Blizzard Entertainment released the first-person shooter multiplayer game Overwatch. According to ratings aggregation site Metacritic, the game received generally positive reviews, with reviewers praising the game for its accessibility and fun. After the game was released in May 2016, the official version reached 7 million players within two weeks; in January 2019, the price of “Overwatch” on the US server was permanently reduced by 50% to attract more players to join. Clothes will also be priced down.
Today is also the day when Wang An, the founder of Wang An Computer Company in the United States, passed away. After he left today in 1990, on August 18, 1992, Wang An Company declared bankruptcy. Looking back on March 24th in the history of computers, what other key events that affected the technological process occurred on this day?
March 24, 1956: Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is born
Steven Anthony Ballmer (Steven Anthony Ballmer) was born on March 24, 1956. He served as CEO of Microsoft Corporation from January 2000 to February 2014 and is the current member of the American Professional Basketball League (NBA) Los Angeles Clippers. Owner of the team; on February 4, 2014, Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft, and Ballmer retained his position on the board. He received mixed reviews as CEO of Microsoft, which tripled sales and doubled profits during Ballmer’s tenure, but lost market dominance and missed 21st-century technology trends , such as the rise of the smartphone in the form of the iPhone and Android.
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Ballmer was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father was a Swiss immigrant and his mother was Jewish. Ballmer and his younger sister grew up in Farmington Hills, near Detroit, where their father worked as an executive at Ford. Ballmer was the manager of the school’s basketball team while attending Detroit Country Day School. In 1973, Ballmer graduated from the school with a 4.0 average and gave his class his valedictorian address. Subsequently, Ballmer received a scholarship to Harvard University.
During his freshman year, he formed a close friendship with college classmate Bill Gates, and the two were bridge friends. The friendship lasted until Gates dropped out of Harvard to start his own software company, Microsoft. At Harvard, Ballmer was an advertising broker for The Harvard Crimson and The Harvard Advocate. After graduating in 1977, Ballmer earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Economics.
Ballmer spent 2 years as a product associate at Procter & Gamble before going to Stanford Graduate School of Business for an MBA. A year later, under Gates’ persuasion, he dropped out of Stanford and went to Microsoft. Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, becoming Microsoft’s 30th employee and the first business manager hired by Gates. Ballmer received a $50,000 salary and a 5% stake in the company at the time. When Microsoft was formally incorporated in 1981, Ballmer’s stake rose to 8%; in 2003, Ballmer sold 39.3 million Microsoft shares, or about $955 million, reducing his ownership to 4%. That same year, he discontinued Microsoft’s employee stock option plan.
In the 20 years since his hire, Ballmer has led several divisions at Microsoft, including operations, operating system development, and sales and support. Since February 1992, he has served as Executive Vice President of Sales and Support. Ballmer led the development of Microsoft’s .NET Framework and was subsequently promoted to Microsoft’s president, a position he held from July 1998 to February 2001, making him the company’s de facto second-in-command, behind Chairman and CEO Bill Gates. In 2008, after Bill Gates retired, Ballmer officially took over the power of Microsoft and became the longest-serving Microsoft employee so far. In 1990, he married Microsoft employee Connie Snyder and they have three sons.
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In contrast to the current Microsoft CEO Nadella’s attitude towards competitors, in March 2006, Ballmer said in an interview with Fortune magazine that the common format of most of the iPod’s music was “stolen”, and was asked if he used iPod, he replied: “No, I don’t use it, and my kids won’t use it. I’ve brainwashed them: you can’t use Google, and you can’t use an iPod.”. According to Microsoft statistics, in 2009 about 10,000 people used the iPhone to use Microsoft’s internal email system, which means that nearly 10% of Microsoft employees worldwide use Apple iPhones. This matter made Microsoft’s top management very concerned, because the competition in the mobile phone market is so fierce, there are still so many employees using rival products.
Ballmer also opposes the open source community and open source software. For competitors poaching from Microsoft, Ballmer often behaves very irresistibly, and even loses his temper. As mentioned earlier, during Ballmer’s tenure, Microsoft missed many business opportunities, including touch smart phones and tablets; but he also tripled Microsoft’s sales, doubled its profits, and led the Regarding the development of the .NET Framework, Ballmer also claimed that during his tenure at Microsoft, the company has done quite well in terms of profitability. Apart from Apple, Microsoft is the most profitable company. What do you think of Microsoft under Ballmer? Welcome to share your insights in the comment area.
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March 24, 2001: Apple Computer Introduces Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a graphical user interface-based operating system launched by Apple Inc., now known as macOS; Mac OS X is the main operating system of the Macintosh (Mac) series of computers. According to StatCounter data in August 2018, among the desktop operating systems, macOS has a usage share of 12.65%, second only to Windows at 82.51%. Mac OS X consists of two main parts: a kernel called Darwin, based on the BSD source code and the Mach microkernel, developed by Apple and the independent developer community; and a kernel called Aqua, developed by Apple. Patented GUI.
Mac OS X is the successor to Mac OS 9, the final version of the Classic Mac OS released in 1999, and the desktop Mac OS X 10.0 “Cheetah” was released on March 24, 2001. In 2012, Apple renamed Mac OS X to OS X. The first system to use this name was “OS X Mountain Lion”. Subsequent versions of macOS were named after big cats. For example, Mac OS X v10.8 is called “Mountain Lion”, but with the announcement of OS X Mavericks in June 2013, the naming began to adopt California landmarks. In June 2016, Apple announced that OS X was renamed macOS in order to maintain a unified naming style with Apple’s other operating systems iOS, watchOS, and tvOS.
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Mac OS X originally appeared as the tenth major version of Apple’s operating system for Macintosh computers; versions of macOS retained the major version number “10” until 2020. The letter “X” in the Mac OS X name refers to the number 10, a Roman numeral that Apple has stated should be pronounced “ten” in this case. However, it is also usually pronounced like the letter “X”. Previous Macintosh operating systems (versions of the classic Mac OS) were named with Arabic numerals, just like Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9.
On this day in history, the first version of Mac OS X released by Apple, Mac OS X Server 1.0, was actually a transitional product; it had an interface similar to classic Mac OS, although it was not compatible with software designed for older systems. Consumer versions of Mac OS X include more backward compatibility. Mac OS applications can be rewritten to run natively through the Carbon API; many can also be run directly through the classic environment, but with reduced performance. The consumer version of Mac OS X followed in 2001 with Mac OS X 10.0. Reviews have been mixed, with praise for its polished, glossy Aqua interface and criticism for slow performance.
Apple quickly developed several new versions of Mac OS X, and as the operating system evolved, it moved away from the classic Mac OS style, adding and removing many applications. Recognizing that music was a key market, Apple developed the iPod music player and music software for the Mac, including iTunes and GarageBand. Aiming at the consumer and media markets, Apple highlighted its new “digital lifestyle” applications such as the iLife suite, integrated home entertainment through the Front Row media center and the Safari web browser. As the Internet became more ubiquitous, Apple offered additional online services, including .Mac, MobileMe, and most recently iCloud products.
A key development of the Mac OS X system, of course, is the iPhone released in 2007; at the iPhone launch conference, Jobs once publicized that “the iPhone has a built-in desktop-level operating system Mac OS X”, but the iPhone actually uses The operating system based on Mac OS X, later known as “iPhone OS,” is now known as iOS. The simultaneous release of two operating systems based on the same framework put pressure on Apple, which said the iPhone forced it to delay Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
However, after Apple opened up the iPhone to third-party developers, its commercial success drew attention to Mac OS X, and many iPhone software developers showed interest in Mac development, sparking a second spring for Mac OS X. In 2012, with the release of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the system name was shortened from Mac OS X to OS X. That year, Apple dismissed Scott Forstall, the head of OS X development, and began to shift from the skeuomorphic style to the flat style we are familiar with today, and the name Mac OS X officially withdrew from the stage of history.
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March 24, 2004: Spring 1.0 General Release
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Spring Framework is an open source application framework for the Java platform. It was initially abbreviated as Spring, and later other projects were hatched from it, such as the commonly used Spring?Boot, Spring?Cloud, etc. Therefore, Spring currently represents the Spring family. Due to its highly modular design, powerful ecosystem and other features, Spring is currently the most popular Java framework. Released under the Apache License 2.0 open source license agreement, the Spring Framework was originally developed by Rod Johnson, Juergen Hoeller, and others.
A beta version of Spring was originally developed by Rod Johnson and published in the book Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development in October 2002. In June 2003, the Spring Framework was first released under the Apache 2.0 license. On this day in history, March 24, 2004, the milestone version 1.0 was released, and in September 2004 and March 2005, new milestone versions were released. In 2006, Spring Framework won the Jolt Productivity Award and the JAX Innovation Award. Some core functionality of the framework is theoretically available to any Java application, but Spring also provides extensive support for web applications built on the Java Enterprise Edition platform.
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