Brad Silverberg was VP of engineering until he left in early 1990 to head up the Personal Systems division at Microsoft.

Adam Bosworth initiated and headed up the Quattro project until moving to Microsoft later in 1990 to take over the project which eventually became Access.

Microsoft Windows scored a significant success with Windows 3. 0, released in May 1990.

* 1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3. 0 operating system.

The collaboration between IBM and Microsoft unravelled in 1990, between the releases of Windows 3. 0 and OS / 2 1. 3.

In early 1989, the Unicode working group expanded to include Ken Whistler and Mike Kernaghan of Metaphor, Karen Smith-Yoshimura and Joan Aliprand of RLG, and Glenn Wright of Sun Microsystems, and in 1990 Michel Suignard and Asmus Freytag from Microsoft and Rick McGowan of NeXT joined the group.

The last version of QuickBASIC was version 4. 5 ( 1988 ), although development of the Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System ( PDS ) continued until its last release of version 7. 1 in October 1990.

OLE 1. 0, released in 1990, was the evolution of the original dynamic data exchange, or DDE, concepts that Microsoft developed for earlier versions of Windows.

The three founders of Visio Corporation left Aldus in 1990 to create the product that later became known as Microsoft Office Visio.

In 1990, version 3. 0 of Windows was beginning to sell in volume, and Microsoft began to lose interest in OS / 2, especially since even earlier, market interest in OS / 2 was always much smaller than in Windows.

Virtual memory has been a feature of Microsoft Windows since Windows 3. 0 in 1990.

Microsoft merged the SMB protocol with the LAN Manager product which it had started developing for OS / 2 with 3Com c. 1990, and continued to add features to the protocol in Windows for Workgroups ( c. 1992 ) and in later versions of Windows.

By 1985, sales were over $ 140 million, by 1990, $ 1. 18 billion, and by 1995, Microsoft was the world's most profitable corporation, Allen and Gates were billionaires, and literally thousands of their past and present employees were millionaires.

By 1985, sales were over $ 140 million, by 1990, $ 1. 18 billion, and by 1995, Microsoft was the world's most profitable corporation, Allen and Gates were billionaires, and literally thousands of their past and present employees were millionaires.

In 1990, Sybase entered into a technology sharing agreement with Microsoft which resulted in Microsoft marketing its own SQL Server — Microsoft SQL Server — based on Sybase's code.

Microsoft Windows scored a significant success with Windows 3. 0, released in 1990.

They were originally developed in 1990 by Microsoft by combining glyphs from Lucida Icons, Arrows, and Stars licensed from Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes.

It was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on Netware networks with MS-DOS clients, and was subsequently ported to Microsoft Windows, which became the most widely used version.

Torrey Pines is a featured golf course in the 1990 computer game Links: The Challenge of Golf by Access Software ( now Indie Built ) and Microsoft Golf 2. 0 by Microsoft, as well as Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2003, and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 by EA Sports.

A fourth and final addition was completed in 1990 with the Kenneth S. Allen Library wing, named for the father of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen ; the elder Allen was an associate director of the University library system from 1960 to 1982.

Windows 3. 0 in 1990 was the first version of Microsoft Windows to come with support for wallpaper customization, and used the term " wallpaper " for this feature.

In 1990-91, the Army had ten military regions and an estimated 73 + ' brigades ', each with a mean strength of 1, 000 and comprising infantry, tanks, APC, artillery, and AA units as required ( IISS Military Balance 1990 or 1991 ).

Ter-Petrosyan had been elected head of government in 1990, when the National Democratic Union party defeated the Armenian Communist Party.

Ethernet had become essentially universal by 1990, and it was time to build Ethernet into Macs direct from the factory.

During 1990, the Lynx had moderate sales but Nintendo's Game Boy continued to gain market share.

In 1990, Bulgaria had a total of more than 2, 400 tanks, 2, 000 armored vehicles, 2, 500 large caliber artillery systems, 300 fighter and bomber aircraft, 100 trainer aircraft, more than 40 combat and 40 transport helicopters, 4 submarine, 6 fast missile craft, 2 frigates, 5 corvettes, 6 torpedo boats, 9 patrol craft, 30 minesweepers and 21 transport vessels.

In his 1990 speech to Kenyon College graduates, Watterson revealed that during his last year he had painted Michelangelo's Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of his dorm room:

During the off-season the club hired Leigh Matthews, who in 1990 had delivered Collingwood its first premiership since 1958.

Contacts with the FARC, which had irregularly continued despite the generalized de facto interruptions of the ceasefire and the official 1987 break from negotiations, were temporarily cut off in 1990 under the presidency of César Gaviria ( 1990 – 1994 ).

The canon law of the Eastern Catholic Churches, which had developed some different disciplines and practices, underwent its own process of codification, resulting in the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches promulgated in 1990 by Pope John Paul II.

Under Palmer, the team advanced to the playoffs for the first time since 1990 in the 2005 season, which also was the first time the team had a winning percentage above. 500 since 1990.

Since then they have had four separate periods in the top flight of English football: between 1936 – 1957, 1986 – 1990, 1998 – 1999 and 2000 – 2007.

In 1990, it was discovered in the archive of the Stasi ( the state security service of the former German Democratic Republic ) that a member of CND's governing council, Vic Allen, had passed information to them about CND.

Kane was a regular on the 1986 NBC series All Is Forgiven, a regular on the 1990 – 1991 NBC series American Dreamer, guest-starred on a 1994 episode of Seinfeld and had a supporting role in the short-lived 1996 – 1997 sitcom Pearl, which starred Rhea Perlman.

By the time of the 28th Congress of the CPSU in July 1990, the party was largely regarded as being unable to lead the country and had, in fifteen republics, split into opposing factions favouring either independent republics or the continuation of the Soviet Union.

* In Latvia, communist organizations were officially banned and a major part of the party there had broken away in 1990 and formed the Latvian Social Democratic Party.

With the help of five Central American Presidents, including Ortega, it was agreed that a voluntary demobilization of the contras should start in early December 1989, in order to facilitate free and fair elections in Nicaragua in February 1990 ( even though the Reagan administration had pushed for a delay of contra disbandment ).

In the resulting February 1990 elections, Violeta Chamorro and her party the UNO won an upset victory of 55 % to 41 % over Daniel Ortega, even though polls leading up to the election had clearly indicated an FSLN victory.

In his book he asked why, if Saudi Arabia had such an effect on Soviet oil prices, did prices not fall in 1980 when the production of oil by Saudi Arabia reached its highest level — three times as much oil as in the mid-eighties — and why did the Saudis wait till 1990 to increase their production, five years after the CIA's supposed intervention?

By 1990 the Soviet government had lost control over economic conditions.

By 1990, an estimated 50 % of islanders had some degree of proficiency in Corsican, and a small minority, perhaps 10 %, used Corsican as a first language.

In 1990 out of a total population of about 254, 000 the percentage had declined to 50 %, with only 10 % using it as a first language.

By the end of 1990 almost 15 million homes had been included in franchised areas, but only 828, 000 of these had been passed by broadband cable and only 149, 000 were actually subscribing.