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February 2, 2004Who invented the Wizard?Posted 3393 days ago on February 2, 2004Google has failed me, so... does anyone out there know who invented the wizard? By which I mean the step-by-step dialogs commonly found in all sorts of software (question arises from my work reviewing programming IDEs)? Excel's Chart Wizard? Or I have a vague recollection that Microsoft Publisher 1.0 was an early example? Having said which, someone will pop up and say it has nothing to do with Microsoft... Update - see this more recent post as a wizard inventor has now come forward. See ITWriting.com for more tech comment. Comments are closed |
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Re: Who invented the Wizard?
Posted 3348 days ago by Tim Anderson • • • ReplyFor example, check this out:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/oct01/10-15publisher.asp
- mentions page wizards back in 1991, which tallies with my recollection that Publisher 1.0 was a wizard pioneer.