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Hi, I am a high school computer teacher. I am looking
for a movie; it is on the history of Microsoft Windows.
I do not know the name of it and I was hoping somebody
could help me out. I watched it once and I want to show
it to my class this coming school year. All I can
remember about it is it shows the history of Microsoft
and how the idea for Windows 1.0 was stolen from Xerox.
It also goes into about the deal Gates made with IBM. If
anybody knows the name of this film please email me at
(e-mail address removed)
Thanks!
 
Don't recall ever seeing a movie.....maybe this will surffice:

Windows Overview & History
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIntro.mspx

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| Hi, I am a high school computer teacher. I am looking
| for a movie; it is on the history of Microsoft Windows.
| I do not know the name of it and I was hoping somebody
| could help me out. I watched it once and I want to show
| it to my class this coming school year. All I can
| remember about it is it shows the history of Microsoft
| and how the idea for Windows 1.0 was stolen from Xerox.
| It also goes into about the deal Gates made with IBM. If
| anybody knows the name of this film please email me at
| (e-mail address removed)
| Thanks!
|
 
Maybe "Pirates of Silicon Valley"

"This dramatization of the tangled history of Apple Computer and Microsoft,
based on a book by Paul Frieberger, hits enough of the right notes to make
its failures all the more frustrating. The script follows the entwined paths
of Apple's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates with a pointed sense of the
cultural divide between the hip, self-absorbed Apple cofounder and the
brilliant alpha geek behind Microsoft's eventual software empire,
contrasting the Mac's countercultural underpinnings with the PC's more
strait-laced origins. But Pirates of Silicon Valley seemingly can't decide
whether it wants to be a serious-minded history of these key figures in the
personal computer revolution or a trashy wallow in the more ignoble foibles
of its principals. As a result, it falls short of exacting history while
never achieving the guilty pleasure it might have."

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780627717/104-7122645-7641514?v=glance
 
Hi, I am a high school computer teacher. I am looking
for a movie; it is on the history of Microsoft Windows.
I do not know the name of it and I was hoping somebody
could help me out. I watched it once and I want to show
it to my class this coming school year. All I can
remember about it is it shows the history of Microsoft
and how the idea for Windows 1.0 was stolen from Xerox.
It also goes into about the deal Gates made with IBM. If
anybody knows the name of this film please email me at
(e-mail address removed)
Thanks!
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I'll bet the name of the movie is "Pirates of Silicon Valley", made in
1999 for TV. (You can find the title of just about any movie on the
"Internet Movie Database" at http://www.imdb.com/ ) and...don't believe
everything you see in movies.

Hope this helps,
Milt
 
(e-mail address removed) said:
Hi, I am a high school computer teacher. I am looking
for a movie; it is on the history of Microsoft Windows.
I do not know the name of it and I was hoping somebody
could help me out. I watched it once and I want to show
it to my class this coming school year. All I can
remember about it is it shows the history of Microsoft
and how the idea for Windows 1.0 was stolen from Xerox.
It also goes into about the deal Gates made with IBM. If
anybody knows the name of this film please email me at
Click to expand...

PBS broadcast "Triumph of the Nerds" several years ago, hosted by Bob
Cringely. It's likely still available via PBS video services. Visit
http://pbs.org and type the title of the program into the search box.
 
I'm not sure if we are talking about the same movie or not but I did see a
movie like this on PBS. They showed the $9,000 Xerox business machines,
they talked about Xerox park, the invention of the mouse and the gui
interface. They showed the garage PC culture and swap meets. If this is
the same movie, you might want to call your local PBS station to see if they
have it in their archives.
 
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