![]() ![]() Variants of the MUSH/Interface Manager interface would ship in DOS Word 1.0 and Multiplan in 19, after the development of the Windows product had already begun.Īt the same time that Interface Manager was being developed, a European standards committee was developing a standard for computer graphics, known as GKS. There were also brief plans for a "visual shell" using this UI to be shipped using DOS 2.0, but these were scrapped before the final release. ![]() This went by several names, notably MUSH (Microsoft User SHell) and Interface Manager, and is an entirely text-mode UI framework signified by the "session control" strip with context-specific commands at the bottom of the screen. ![]() In 1981, the Apps division of Microsoft (Microsoft had two primary divisions during this time - "Systems" and "Apps", for systems software and application development respectively) began to develop a common interface library for all of the productivity applications being developed within the division at the time (mostly Word and the Multiplan spreadsheet).
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