The evolution of Microsoft, in keywords

[jducoeur]

For those interested in the history of the Borg, there's an amusing article now online, with an interactive timeline of keywords from Microsoft's history. Basically, they've taken a bunch of articles, ads, and interviews from Microsoft over the past several decades, and analyzed each one into a tag cloud, so you can see what they were most concerned with at the time.

It's a small enough data set that it's not fully representative -- each article has its own concerns, which often overwhelm the broader historical trends -- but it's still an intriguing way to quickly examine how things have changed over the years...