Razer has used CES to show off a number of concept devices over the years that never turned into real products. There was at least one exception in Project Fiona, a Windows 8-based gaming tablet.
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The OQO ultra-mobile PC was a full Windows computer with a pull-out keyboard you could hold in your hands. It was not a big success, but it showed up in a bunch of TV shows. Here is a quick look back.
In October 2001, an official Windows XP musical was performed in Israel to help promote Microsoft's launch of the operating system. The video of that musical has recently been discovered on YouTube.
On December 15, 1994, Netscape Navigator 1.0 officially launched. It was made to be the first commercial web browser, and it helped introduce many people to the World Wide Web and the internet.
There will never be another E3 show held in Los Angeles. All we have are memories of past shows, and that includes games announced at E3 by Microsoft that ended up not being released.
On December 10, 1993, id Software released the first shareware episode of the first Doom game. It remains one of the great video games of all time, and still has a community of players and developers.
For a brief period of time, Microsoft's hardware division sold home network Wi-Fi routers to consumers, and at one point they were big sellers, but the company quickly ended their production
Microsoft developed Hover, a sci-fi-themed first-person game that launched with the CD-ROM editions of Windows 95. Later, Microsoft revived the game as a web-based title for Internet Explorer.
Well before the making of a Halo live-action TV series, Microsoft tried to make a Halo big-budget feature film, and recruited talent like Peter Jackson, Alex Garland, and others. It later fell apart.
One of Microsoft's very first PC games was Microsoft Olympic Decathlon, the first version of which launched way back in 1980. It remains one of the few sports games the company has published
On November 20, 1985, over two years after it was first announced by Microsoft, the company finally released Windows 1.01. It was Microsoft's first attempt at a GUI PC operating system.
25 years ago today, a small developer named Valve Software released its debut game, Half-Life. The first-person shooter turned out to be a milestone point in the PC gaming industry.
Microsoft Space Simulator was launched in 1994 as a spin-off of sorts for the company's Flight Simulator series. While it got mostly positive reviews, its sales were not high enough for a sequel.
Long before Windows, and even before MS-DOS, Microsoft sold a Unix-based operating system it called Xenix in 1980. It was the first OS made by the company, but it eventually sold it off in 1987.
40 years ago today, Microsoft officially announced its plans to release the first edition of its Windows PC operating system. However, it would take over two years for the OS to finally launch.
The Frag Master, released by Trustmaster in the late 1990s, was an attempt to create a controller specifically for first-person shooters. It ended up being a complete and total disaster.
In the late 1990s, Microsoft released some very different PC game controllers, the SideWinder Freestyle Pro, and the Sidewinder Dual Strike. Both had some interesting designs and technology.
In October 2012, Microsoft launched its first Surface PC product, the Surface RT tablet. It was accompanied by a huge marketing campaign for the tablet that launched the Surface lineup.
40 years ago this month, the first PC that used the MSX platform launched. It was very popular in many markets outside the US, and Microsoft even had a small but important role in its development.
On October 22, 2009, Microsoft officially launched the Windows 7 operating system for PCs. It was accompanied by a massive marketing and promotion campaign that sometimes went in unexpected ways.
Much like Microsoft Solitare, the inclusion of the game Microsoft Minesweeper in Windows 3.1 in 1992 was a major time sink for tens of millions of people in the 1990s and into the 2000s
On October 19, 1993, Brad Wardell officially started Stardock. 30 years later the company is still going strong making Windows-based utilize software and games like the Galactic Civilizations series.
Microsoft has announced that Minecraft games have now sold over 300 million copies. It's a huge new milestone for a game that started out as a side project from one developer in May 2009.
First released as part of Windows 3.0 in 1990, Microsoft Solitaire has truly become one of the most popular games ever released, and a version of it is still available for many platforms.
Microsoft tried to revive the Age of Empires franchise with a free-to-play PC game over 10 years ago. Microsoft shut that game down a few years after it launched, but some fans have since revived it.
Microsoft launched the first version of Windows Home Server 16 years ago this month on October 10, 2007. However, this version of Windows Server didn't catch on with the general public.
The first version of Microsoft Excel shipped on September 30, 1985. It was made originally for the Macintosh. Excel went on to become the dominant spreadsheet program for the PC and other platforms.
In 1983, Microsoft shipped the first version of what would become known as Microsoft Word, although there is some confusion as to the exact date the word processor program was launched.
On September 23, 2008, Google, HTC, and T-Mobile teamed up to announce the first Android smartphone, the HTC Dream (aka the T-Mobile G1), which started the huge lineup of Android mobile devices.
Long before emojis, the first emoticon that used normal text characters to show the representation of a face was created 41 years ago today, on September 19, 1982 by Scott E. Fahlman.
Lenovo first revealed the IdeaPad U1 PC at CES 2010. It ran Windows 7 in laptop mode but switched to a Linux (later Android) OS tablet when the display detached. The product ultimately didn't launch.
Announced at CES in January 2002, Microsoft wanted "Mira" to launch a new device segment of smart portable displays that would connect to PCs at home. Unfortunately, this venture didn't work out.
On September 9, 1995, the original Sony PlayStation game console launched in the US, several months after it launched in Japan. It helped to launch a new era in console video gaming,
Volition was formed in 1993 as Parallax Software and it made the first two Descent games and went on to make a ton of great game titles and franchises like Freespace, Red Faction, and Saints Row.
WordPad has been a free part of Windows since 1995, offering more features than Notepad but less than Microsoft Word. It's been something of an odd app, and that may be why Microsoft is killing it.
Microsoft's XNA Game Studio was made to allow anyone to create a game that could be released and sold digitally for its Xbox 360 console. It launched 17 years ago today on August 30, 2006.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 launched on August 24, 2001. The sixth major edition of the company's web browser ended up getting poor review marks due to a number of security issues.
On August 25, 1991, 21-year old programmer Linus Torvalds posted an announcement on a newsgroup that he was working on a new and free PC operating system. That OS would later be named Linux
The retail version of Microsoft's Windows 95 went on sale on August 24, 1995. It was accompanied by a promotion and marketing campaign that remains unprecedented for any PC operating system.
In 2009, Microsoft showed off Project Natal for the first time during the E3 gaming trade show The motion capture sensor for its Xbox 360 would be renamed as Kinect for its official retail release.
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