Timeline

Below is a timeline of some significant events in the history of Microsoft and other companies in the technology industry.

1960's | 1970's | 1980-1984 | 1985-1989 | 1990-1994 | 1995 | 1996-1999 | 2000's

1990-1994

Time Period	Description
May, 1990	Microsoft ships Windows 3.0
1991	The Internet goes commercial. The backbone will no longer be supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
May, 1991	Microsoft announces Visual Basic for Windows 3.0
September, 1991	Linus Torvalds begins the creation of the open-source Linux operating system
Spring, 1992	IBM releases OS/2 2.0
April, 1992	Microsoft ships Windows 3.1
December, 1992 - March, 1993	Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina develop a web client, soon to be named NCSA Mosaic, at the University of Illinois
March 26, 1993	Lou Gerstner becomes CEO of IBM
May, 1993	IBM releases OS/2 2.10
1994	Linux 1.0 is released
May, 1994	Jim Clark and Marc Andreesen form Mosaic Communications, later to be renamed Netscape Communications Spyglass is given license by the University of Illinois to handle all future commercial licensing of Mosaic for NCSA
July 25, 1994	DOJ sues Microsoft alleging that it is an unlawful monopoly and in restraint of trade in the market for PC operating system software. The U.S. further alleges that Microsoft has engaged in anti-competitive marketing practices directed at PC manufacturers.
September 12, 1994	Mosaic Communications announced its first products: a network navigator called Mosaic Netscape, and a server line called Mosaic Netsite
October, 1994	IBM releases OS/2 Warp Version 3
December, 1994	Netscape's chairman and chief executive officer (CEO), Jim Clark, tells a Microsoft executive that the focus of Netscape's business would be applications running on servers and that Netscape did not intend to succeed at Microsoft's expense. Microsoft licenses web browsing code from Spyglass which forms the foundation of Internet Explorer
December 15, 1994	Netscape Communications releases completely revised browser, called Navigator