<s>
Microsoft	O
QuickC	B-Application
is	O
a	O
discontinued	O
commercial	O
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
(	O
IDE	B-Application
)	O
product	O
engineered	O
by	O
Microsoft	O
for	O
the	O
C	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
,	O
superseded	O
by	O
Visual	B-Application
C++	I-Application
Standard	O
Edition	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
main	O
competitor	O
was	O
Borland	B-Application
Turbo	I-Application
C	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
QuickC	B-Application
is	O
one	O
of	O
three	O
Microsoft	O
programming	O
languages	O
with	O
IDEs	O
of	O
this	O
type	O
marketed	O
in	O
the	O
same	O
period	O
,	O
the	O
other	O
two	O
being	O
QuickBasic	B-Language
and	O
QuickPascal	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
QuickBasic	B-Language
later	O
gave	O
rise	O
to	O
Visual	B-Language
Basic	I-Language
as	O
well	O
as	O
being	O
included	O
without	O
a	O
linker	O
as	O
QBasic	B-Language
in	O
later	O
versions	O
of	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
,	O
replacing	O
GW-BASIC	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
QuickC	B-Application
is	O
a	O
lineal	O
ancestor	O
of	O
Visual	B-Application
C++	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
three	O
Quick	O
language	O
implementations	O
were	O
designed	O
for	O
power	O
users	O
(	O
as	O
opposed	O
to	O
professional	O
developers	O
,	O
whom	O
Microsoft	O
supplied	O
with	O
programming	O
languages	O
in	O
the	O
form	O
of	O
expensive	O
and	O
more	O
comprehensive	O
implementations	O
for	O
the	O
three	O
languages	O
in	O
question	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
C++	B-Language
,	O
Fortran	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Cobol	B-Application
)	O
and	O
educational	O
use	O
;	O
in	O
all	O
three	O
cases	O
their	O
major	O
competitor	O
was	O
Borland	O
with	O
its	O
Turbo	O
compiler	O
series	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QuickC	B-Application
was	O
a	O
real	O
mode	O
target	O
only	O
compiler	O
,	O
with	O
the	O
exception	O
of	O
QuickC	B-Application
for	O
Windows	O
1.0	O
which	O
also	O
allowed	O
to	O
compile	O
protected	O
mode	O
programs	O
,	O
but	O
only	O
for	O
Windows	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QuickC	B-Application
1.0	O
,	O
released	O
in	O
October	O
1987	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
implements	O
the	O
ANSI	O
C	B-Language
standard	O
and	O
is	O
Microsoft	O
C	B-Language
5.0	O
compatible	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
CodeView	B-Application
is	O
also	O
supported	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QuickC	B-Application
2.0	O
,	O
released	O
in	O
January	O
1989	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
Microsoft	O
C	B-Language
5.1	O
compatible	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QuickC	B-Application
2.01	O
,	O
released	O
in	O
June	O
1989	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QuickC	B-Application
2.50	O
,	O
released	O
in	O
May	O
1990	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
QuickC	B-Application
for	O
Windows	O
1.0	O
,	O
released	O
in	O
September	O
1991	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
Windows	O
based	O
IDE	B-Application
for	O
C	B-Language
and	O
was	O
also	O
available	O
in	O
a	O
bundle	O
with	O
Microsoft	O
C	B-Language
6.0	O
and	O
Windows	O
SDK	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
IDE	B-Application
made	O
use	O
of	O
some	O
undocumented	O
Windows	B-Library
API	I-Library
calls	O
.	O
</s>
