The first time was in August 2019 it vanished shortly thereafter. Notepad has appeared on Microsoft Store twice. (Hanson has previously convinced Bill Gates to rename 'Interface Manager' to 'Windows' before the release of Windows 1.0.) So, the Microsoft's name replaced 'Multi-Tool'. Hanson's rationale was that 'the brand is the hero' and people wouldn't automatically associate 'Multi-Tool' with Microsoft. On the suggestion of Rowland Hanson, the Multi-Tool brand name was killed by the time Microsoft Word shipped in November 1983. Initial sales were modest because there was little one could do with it except run the three demonstration programs included in the box (a tutorial, a practice app, and Multi-Tool Notepad.) The Multi-Tool product line began with expert systems for the Multiplan spreadsheet. The boxed mouse and Multi-Tool Notepad began shipping in July. Most visitors had never heard of a computer mouse before.
Also introduced at that COMDEX was Multi-Tool Word, designed by Charles Simonyi to work with the mouse.
In May 1983, Microsoft introduced Multi-Tool Notepad, a mouse-based text editor written by Richard Brodie, with the $195 Microsoft Mouse, at the Spring COMDEX computer expo in Atlanta.
