> So both the 70s and the 90s were great decades for computing. Not sure what happened in the 80s
Microsoft.
- MS-DOS: 1981
- Word: 1983
- Windows: 1985
- Excel: 1985
- Word for Windows: 1989
- Office: 1990
If your view of computing history is through *nix-alike or Mac lenses the '80s are going to look pretty barren, because the '80s were when Microsoft was busy driving both those markets into nearly-complete irrelevance.
AT&T and Sun did a good job of rendering Unix irrelevant during the "Unix Wars". Microsoft hedged their bets with Xenix until it became clear that wasn't the way forward.
Microsoft.
- MS-DOS: 1981
- Word: 1983
- Windows: 1985
- Excel: 1985
- Word for Windows: 1989
- Office: 1990
If your view of computing history is through *nix-alike or Mac lenses the '80s are going to look pretty barren, because the '80s were when Microsoft was busy driving both those markets into nearly-complete irrelevance.