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20th Anniversary of Windows
UltimaGuy writes "When Windows first shipped, 20 years ago this month, it was considered nothing more than a slow operating environment that had arrived late to the party, well behind the industry leaders, Apple and Xerox PARC. Now, it's the operating system used on nearly 95 percent of all the desktops and notebooks sold worldwide. Take a look at Window's past and present, and what lies ahead in the future, including an interview with Mr. Bill Gates himself."
In Redmond, all windows are wide open.
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20th post
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose"
20 years ago, you could safely ignore it.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
We use UNIX. We shouldn't be making cracks about using an ancient OS.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
"If anyone needs me, I'm in the angry dome."
Man, if there were EVER an article that Slashdotters weren't going to RTFA...
Acts 17:28, "For in Him we live, and move, and have our being."
There is a problem when you get barrels near Balmer , He starts throwing them at short Italians wearing plumber outfits
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
It's 'French', 'damn', you're missing two commas, your comma should be an semi-colon and my quote is correct (not that yours isn't - English is your weakness).
Clippy says: You look like you typing a letter in French. Would you like help with that?
I wish I had mod point to mod you all down to hell.
All I could make out of that was something about surrendering.
Or about as long as the Serenity poll has been up.
No, the vast improvements made to the code make it faster and more secure.
Feel free to mod me "-1 - Angry Jerk".
Man's unfailing capacity to believe what he prefers to be true rather than what the evidence shows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for a caring Universe which will save us from our childish mistakes, and in the face of mountains of evidence to the contrary we will pin all our hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist.
Academician Prokhor Zakharov
"For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
Lesbian Nazi Hookers Abducted by UFOs and Forced Into Weight Loss Programs - -all next week on Town Talk.
Actually, Clippy would say, "It looks like you're typing a letter in French. Would you like me to apply some formating that you'll never be able to modify, making you delete the file and start over from scratch?
It would be presumptuous to conclude that Americans have no right to know what is being done in their name