Editing NeXT (section)

==Legacy==
Though not very profitable, the company had a wide-ranging impact on the computer industry. [[Object-oriented programming]] and [[graphical user interface]]s became more common after the 1988 release of the NeXTcube and NeXTSTEP. The technologically successful platform was often held as the trendsetter when other companies started to emulate the success of NeXT's object-oriented system.<ref>{{Cite news | author=Smith, Carrie | title=NeXT means business now. | work=Wall Street & Technology | date=May 1994 | publisher=[[InfoTrac|General Reference Center Gold]]}}</ref>

Widely seen as a response to NeXT, Microsoft announced the [[Cairo (operating system)|Cairo project]] in 1991; the Cairo specification included similar object-oriented user-interface features for a proposed consumer version of Windows NT. Although Cairo was ultimately abandoned, some elements were integrated into other projects.<ref name="PM">{{Cite news | author=Smith, Carrie | title=NeXT, Microsoft tackle objects: NT to gain OpenStep port. | work=PC Week | date=November 7, 1994 | publisher=[[InfoTrac|General Reference Center Gold]]}}</ref>

By 1993, [[Taligent]] was considered by the press to be a competitor in objects and operating systems, even without any product release, and with NeXT as a main point of comparison. For the first few years, Taligent's theoretical innovation was often compared to NeXT's older but mature and commercially established platform,{{efn|Attributed to multiple references: <ref name="Unixworld April 1993"/><ref name="NeXTWORLD Feb 1994">{{Cite interview | magazine=NeXTWORLD | date=February 1994 | page=23-24 | first=Bud | last=Tribble | interviewer=NeXTWORLD | title=Bud Tribble Explains It All | url=https://archive.org/details/nextworld-1994/ | access-date=February 10, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103205939/https://archive.org/details/nextworld-1994/ | archive-date=January 3, 2020 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news
| last = Semich
| first =J. William
| title = Taligent (Apple, IBM and HP's joint object-oriented operating system)
| work = Datamation
| page = 34
| date = March 15, 1994}}</ref><ref name="IEEE Software 1995">{{Cite journal | title=Taligent Readies a New Development Paradigm | journal=IEEE Software | first=Rich | last=Santalesa | date=1995 | url=https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/1995/02/s2103.pdf | access-date=October 3, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170830122116/https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/1995/02/s2103.pdf | archive-date=August 30, 2017 | url-status=live }}</ref>}} but Taligent's launch in 1995 was called "too little, too late", especially when compared with NeXT.<ref name="Analysts wary">{{Cite news | newspaper=SF Gate | date=June 6, 1995 | first=Tom | last=Abate | title=Analysts wary of late software by Taligent | url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Analysts-wary-of-late-software-by-Taligent-3144590.php | access-date=February 10, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218141829/https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Analysts-wary-of-late-software-by-Taligent-3144590.php | archive-date=February 18, 2019 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Several developers used the NeXT platform to write pioneering programs. For example, in 1990, computer scientist [[Tim Berners-Lee]] used a NeXT Computer to develop the [[WorldWideWeb|first web browser]] and web server.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html|title=The WorldWideWeb browser|last=Berners-Lee|first=Tim|author-link=Tim Berners-Lee|website=[[World Wide Web Consortium]]|url-status=live|access-date=June 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080904111724/http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html|archive-date=September 4, 2008}}</ref><ref name="Ben">[http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=4 Roads and Crossroads of Internet History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206040430/http://www.netvalley.com/cgi-bin/intval/net_history.pl?chapter=4 |date=February 6, 2015 }} Chapter 4: Birth of the Web</ref> The video game series ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 9, 2020|title=Remembering Steve Jobs' NeXT, a computer company he founded in 1985|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/facts-you-probably-didnt-know-about-steve-jobs-next-inc-6394346/|access-date=February 24, 2022|website=[[The Indian Express]]|language=en|last=Bhatia|first=Anuj|archive-date=May 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505125612/https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/facts-you-probably-didnt-know-about-steve-jobs-next-inc-6394346/|url-status=live}}</ref> and ''[[Quake (video game)|Quake]]'' were developed by [[id Software]] using NeXT computers.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Carmack|first=John|title=Why John Carmack Chose NeXT For Developing 'Doom' And Other Favorites|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/09/01/why-john-carmack-chose-next-for-developing-doom-and-other-favorites/|access-date=February 24, 2022|website=[[Forbes]]|language=en|author-link=John Carmack|publisher=[[Quora]]|archive-date=May 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526180056/https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2016/09/01/why-john-carmack-chose-next-for-developing-doom-and-other-favorites/|url-status=live|date=September 1, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Morgan|first=Clancy|title=Steve Jobs left Apple to start a new computer company. His $12 million failure saved Apple.|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-12-million-dollar-failure-saved-apple-next-2019-8|access-date=February 25, 2022|website=[[Insider (news website)|Business Insider]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Other commercial programs were released for NeXT computers, including Altsys Virtuoso—a vector-drawing program with page-layout features, which was ported to Mac OS and Windows as [[Aldus FreeHand]] v4—and the [[Lotus Improv]] [[spreadsheet]] program.{{efn|Attributed to multiple references: <ref>{{Cite web|title=Reviews: Virtuoso Performance|url=http://www.nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles/Articles/NeXTWORLD/93.2/93.2.ApMay.Virtuoso.html|access-date=February 25, 2022|publisher=[[Simson Garfinkel]]|first1=Tony|last1=Bove|first2=Cheryl|last2=Rhodes|author-link1=Tony Bove}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Reviews: Its Own Reward|url=http://simson.net/ref/NeXT/nextworld/92.4/92.4.Winter.Virtuoso.html|access-date=February 25, 2022|publisher=[[Simson Garfinkel]]|first1=Tony|last1=Bove|first2=Cheryl|last2=Rhodes|author-link1=Tony Bove}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-11162870.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409051520/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-11162870.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 9, 2016|title=V2.1 type library on CD-ROM|date=August 1, 1991|work=Graphic Arts Monthly |via=[[HighBeam Research]]|accessdate=February 17, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/NeXTWORLDVol.1No.1JanuaryFebruary1991|title=NeXTWORLD Vol. 1 No. 1 January/February 1991|date=1991|language=English}}</ref>{{rp|4}}{{rp|63}}}}