WEEK 1 ACTIVITY

GIPULAO, JESSA WEN F. BSITBA-4A

Personal Challenge
1. What is the exact date of the release of Windows 95?
Answer: August 1995
2. What is the first version of windows?
Answer: Macintosh
3. What is the exact date of the release of Windows 1.0?
Answer: November 1985
4. What is the exact date of the release of Windows 7?
Answer: October 22, 2009
5. What is the exact date of the release of Windows Server 2003?
Answer: April 2003
6. Microsoft released the Windows 8 Release Preview, Build 8400 on what date?
Answer: June 1, 2012
7. Mainstream support for Windows 98 ended on what date?
Answer: June 30, 2002
8. Mainstream support for Windows 95 ended on what date?
Answer: December 31, 2001
9. On February 29, 2012, Microsoft released what windows version?
Answer: Windows 8
10. Mainstream support for Windows XP ended on what date?
Answer: April 14, 2009
Laboratory Challenge
1. What operating system was originally called “Project Chicago”?
The operating system originally called “Project Chicago” is Windows 95.
Wherein in 1995, the windows operating system reached a certain threshold.
Moreover, Microsoft’s iterative design approach allowed for more cycles of
prototyping and user-testing than a typical project span would allow.
2. Research for Windows Prototypes.
Answer:

1.A film (movie) prototype is made using video just to show others the idea in a graphical/visual
format.

2. Feasibility Prototype is usually developed to determine the feasibility of various solutions. It

is applied to the resolve technical risks attached to the development in terms of performance,
compatibility of components etc.
3. Horizontal Prototype is the user interface in the form of screenshots, demonstrating the
outer layer of the human interface only, such as windows, menus, and screens. The prototype is
used to clarify the scope and requirements of the product.
4. Rapid Prototype is used to quickly engineer an initial model of a product using a three-
dimensional computer-aided design when you want to produce something in a short span.

5. Simulations is digitally creating of a physical product to predict the performance of the

product in the real world.

6. Storyboard a product in a form of a story and demonstrates a typical order in which

information needs to be presented. It helps in determining useable sequences for presenting
information.

7. Vertical Prototype is the back end of a product like a database generation to test front end. It
used to improve database design, test key components at early stages or showcase a working
model, though unfinished, to check the key functions.

8. Wireframe is a skeleton a product. Depicted in the form of illustrations or schematics that

capture an aspect of design such as an idea, layout, form, architecture or sequence.

9. Animations are images drawn and put in a sequence that walks you through the proposed 3D
structure of the product/solution.

10. Mock-up with no functionalities, just to get overall visual of the product. It is an unpolished
version of the product with no active features.
In conclusion, depending on what you are working on you will need to decide which prototype
works best for you, often a number of these might need to be used into a working prototype.