2091: Microsoft is broken up into Microsoft (software), Microhard (hardware), Microps (operating systems)
2117: Microhard collapses
2128: Microps releases Spaces: a navigation controller for space vehicles
2129: Microps withdraws "Spaces" pending the return of an ambassadorial vehicle from the nation of Botshana, whom they'd paid 3 trillion candian dollars to use their software
2145: Google buys Microsoft and open sources Office,
2163: Microps reveals SpaceDrive Vista, a revolutionary[*] application architecture and controller for space vehicles
2165: Larry Ellison, recently revived from suspended animation and now CEO of Microps, uses his spare change to allow Microps to pay people money for running SpaceDrive
2165: SpaceDrive reaches 25% market share
2170: Microps purchases Garmin and adds their SpaceGation software to SpaceDrive
2175: Garmin's space navigation software is now standard on 48% of all manned space vehicles
2195: Supercruise invented
2500: In response to 305 years of consumer feature requests and bug reports, Microps renames itself to "DeLacy".
3000: Despite 805, sorry, 500 years of customer requests, the software still requires you to manually press a button when you arrive at your specified location in order to exit super cruise.
[* it contains most of the features that have been available elsewhere for the last 30 years in some form, removed the features that caused the original Spaces software to make vehicles explode, plus it has a 2 dimensional gui that looks a lot like something your kids drew]
2117: Microhard collapses
2128: Microps releases Spaces: a navigation controller for space vehicles
2129: Microps withdraws "Spaces" pending the return of an ambassadorial vehicle from the nation of Botshana, whom they'd paid 3 trillion candian dollars to use their software
2145: Google buys Microsoft and open sources Office,
2163: Microps reveals SpaceDrive Vista, a revolutionary[*] application architecture and controller for space vehicles
2165: Larry Ellison, recently revived from suspended animation and now CEO of Microps, uses his spare change to allow Microps to pay people money for running SpaceDrive
2165: SpaceDrive reaches 25% market share
2170: Microps purchases Garmin and adds their SpaceGation software to SpaceDrive
2175: Garmin's space navigation software is now standard on 48% of all manned space vehicles
2195: Supercruise invented
2500: In response to 305 years of consumer feature requests and bug reports, Microps renames itself to "DeLacy".
3000: Despite 805, sorry, 500 years of customer requests, the software still requires you to manually press a button when you arrive at your specified location in order to exit super cruise.
[* it contains most of the features that have been available elsewhere for the last 30 years in some form, removed the features that caused the original Spaces software to make vehicles explode, plus it has a 2 dimensional gui that looks a lot like something your kids drew]
