As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.

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

* Differences in culture and vision: Microsoft favored the open hardware system approach that contributed to its success on the PC ; IBM sought to use OS / 2 to drive sales of its own hardware, including systems that could not support the features Microsoft wanted.

The game was available for PlayStation and for Microsoft Windows and was not a significant commercial success.

Cormac Herley of Microsoft Research suggests that spelling and grammar errors are intentional to filter out intelligent recipients and increase the likelihood of a success.

The MITS Altair just mentioned played an instrumental role in sparking significant hobbyist interest, which itself eventually led to the founding and success of many well-known personal computer hardware and software companies, such as Microsoft and Apple Computer.

By the late 1990s, the success of Microsoft Windows had driven rival commercial operating systems into near-extinction, and had ensured that the “ IBM PC compatible ” computer was the dominant computing platform.

For example, IBM's DB2, Oracle database, and Microsoft SQL Server, make claims to support this technology and do so with varying degrees of success.

Improv found a strong following in certain niche markets, notably financial modeling, although it was not a commercial success in comparison to mainstream products like Lotus 1-2-3 or Microsoft Excel.

After the initial success of Altair BASIC, Microsoft BASIC became the basis for a lucrative software licensing business, being ported to the majority of the numerous home and personal computers of the 1970s and especially the 1980s, and extended along the way.

Due to the widespread success of JavaScript as a client-side scripting language for web pages, Microsoft developed a compatible dialect of the language, naming it JScript to avoid trademark issues.

The success of WinG in enabling high-performance game development on Windows led directly to the inception of DirectX, which became the standard game development platform for Microsoft Windows, and later for the Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles.

Microsoft attributed the sales success of Windows 98 in part to Windows Update.

Its success subsequently spread into the surrounding Thames Valley or M4 corridor, attracting IT firms such as Cable and Wireless, DEC ( subsequently Hewlett-Packard ), Microsoft, Sharp Telecommunications, Sun Microsystems and Cognos.

It achieved moderate success for Ashton-Tate, but a version for Microsoft Windows was never developed.

Netscape's success attracted the attention of Microsoft, which recognized the Web's potential and wanted to put itself at the forefront of the rising Internet revolution.

With the advent and popularity of BPML, and the growing success of BPMI. org and the open BPMS movement led by JBoss and Intalio Inc., IBM and Microsoft decided to combine these languages into a new language, BPEL4WS.

The success of Metal Gear Solid resulted in a series of sequels, prequels, spin-offs, ports and remakes for Microsoft Windows, the Game Boy Color, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable.

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

** Microsoft had originally profited from the initial success of the IBM PC.

Microsoft saw more potential in developing Windows, a project it pursued parallel to its cooperating with IBM on OS / 2, and Windows 3. 0 proved to be a great success ( along with MS-DOS ) bundled with new PCs.

More success in cornering the market has come by gaining a near-monopoly share in industries such as computers ( like IBM ) and software ( like Microsoft ).

Software kill switches have been shown to have varying degrees of success, as false positives have been known to occur, prompting some vendors like Microsoft to " turn off " the software kill switch in response to market pressure.

After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger ( in print as Runway Zero Eight ).

This spot was never filled, and consequently United Flight 93 had four hijackers, not five, which is believed to have led in part to the success of the passenger revolt.

They are often credited with taking the first steps toward popularizing grunge music, and have continued to achieve critical and commercial success in the new millennium, with popular bands such as Fleet Foxes, Dinosaur Jr., Foals, Beach House, The Postal Service, Flight of the Conchords, No Age, Wolf Parade and The Shins on their roster.

E. V. Luminais ' painting Flight of King Gradlon, depicting Gradlon's escape from Ys, scored a success at the Salon of 1884.

Alpha Flight has success creating the machine to free the people that Master of the World had under his mental control.

It was a huge cross-over success, appealing to both children and adult readers, which led James Gurney to write and illustrate three more books called Dinotopia: The World Beneath, Dinotopia: First Flight and most recently Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara.

Basket of Light, which followed in mid 1969, was their greatest commercial success, thanks to a surprise hit single, " Light Flight " which became popular through its use as theme music for a TV drama series Take Three Girls ( the BBC's first drama series to be broadcast in colour ) for which the band also provided incidental music.

The publicity campaigns at military bases were part of the success Dale Brown's Flight of the Old Dog.

The Dawn Patrol was an " instant success ", one of the studio's most profitable films that year. Later critical reviews noted that the " anti-war " message was more prevalent in the original film, although due to the re-titling of Flight Commander, the film is often not as well known as its 1938 remake.

Flight Unlimited received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success ; its sales exceeded 780, 000 copies by 2002.

Flight Unlimited was a commercial success.

With this initiative creating a spectacular success, the team decided to continue operating Alpha Flight as an independent group.

While it ran MS-DOS and approximated the hardware capabilities of the IBM PC, it was highly PC compatible, being able to run such programs as Sub Logic Flight Simulator ; but was not a huge success in the market.

Many of the rhythms on the album will be familiar to Lee Perry fans ; " Double Power " versions " Give Me Power " by the Stingers, " Lover Version " features Perry's production of Chenley Duffus covering William Bell's " I Forgot to Be Your Lover " ( he later gifted the rhythm to Winston " Niney " Holness, who passed it on to producer A Folder who enjoyed massive success with cuts of it by Delroy Wilson, Augustus Pablo, Tommy McCook and Jah Lloyd in 1975 and 1976 ), " Connection " versions the " Space Flight " rhythm, and " Kuchy Skank " is an Augustus Pablo version to " Words of My Mouth " by Sangie Davis and the Gatherers.

However, after the Chimes-produced single " I Believe in You " failed to build on a measure of club success, and some excellent press, Circa delayed releasing the album until a reworked " Flight X " ( featuring rapper The Voice Of Reason ) broke.

After this success, director Sydney Pollack hired Cuarón to direct an episode of Fallen Angels, a series of neo-noir stories produced for the Showtime premium cable network in 1993 ; other directors who worked on the series included Steven Soderbergh, Jonathan Kaplan, Peter Bogdanovich, and Tom Hanks.

The success of the series has led to the adaptation of several books into 14 films: ten animated, and four with live actors.

Prior to creating the Asterix series, Goscinny and Uderzo had previously had success with their series Oumpah-pah, which was published in the Tintin magazine.

This was not a success in battle, and was replaced with a very successful series of increasingly powerful turretless assault guns: the SU-76, SU-122, and the heavy SU-152, which were followed by the ISU-122 and ISU-152 on the new IS heavy tank chassis.

In commercial terms, the Athlon " Classic " was an enormous success — not just because of its own merits, but also because Intel endured a series of major production, design, and quality control issues at this time.

In 1927 a short nine-game series took place in Argentina, with the Lions winning all nine encounters ; the tour did however become a financial success for Argentine rugby.

From the success of this campaign, the company started a series of events and sponsored locations.

Its success ( coupled with some theatrical releases of the film in Europe ) convinced CBS to turn it into a weekly series, which began airing in the Spring of 1978.

The series has achieved enormous success, selling nearly 50 million units.

In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the " Ealing comedies ", from 1947 to 1957.

The PRC was shaped by a series of campaigns and five-year plans, with mixed success.

The first episode was aired on 9 December 1960 and was not initially a critical success ; Daily Mirror columnist Ken Iriwin claimed the series would only last three weeks.

Since then, the series has aired continuously in rotation due to its success.

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

Data General followed up on the success of the original Nova with a series of faster designs.

The series was a success, and in 1995 he won an Eisner Award for best continuing series.

Due to the success of the James Bond film series the Italian film industry made large amounts of imitations and spoofs in the Eurospy genre from 1964-1967.

Several horror films, Kairo, Dark Water, Yogen, the Grudge series and One Missed Call met with commercial success.

PBS telecast the series, beginning in January 1980 ; the general format was that of Dr. Friedman visiting and narrating a number of success and failure stories in history, which Dr. Friedman attributes to capitalism or the lack thereof ( e. g. Hong Kong is commended for its free markets, while India is excoriated for relying on centralized planning especially for its protection of its traditional textile industry ).

The new-born Republic followed up on this success with a series of victories in Belgium and the Rhineland in the fall of 1792.

Media fans, have, on occasion, organized on behalf of canceled television series, with notable success in cases such as Star Trek in 1968, Cagney & Lacey in 1983, Xena: Warrior Princess, in 1995, Roswell in 2000 and 2001 ( it was canceled with finality at the end of the 2002 season ), Farscape in 2002, Firefly in 2002, and Jericho in 2007.

Dallara briefly tried the series before moving up to Formula One, and AGS moved up from Formula Two but never recaptured their occasional success.