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Recalling Windows 1.0 At 25 Years

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the if-you-knew-then dept.

alphadogg writes "When Microsoft released the very first version of Windows nearly 25 years ago, on Nov. 20, 1985, it was late to the game and little used. Apple had already brought graphical user interfaces to computers with Macintosh more than a year earlier, while DOS systems dominated the market for IBM and IBM-compatible PCs. No one who used this first version was likely to have predicted that Windows would completely dominate the PC market 25 years later..."

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  1. Re:Windows 1.0 was barely usable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Overlapping windows were patented by Apple, so they couldn't be implemented.

  2. Recalling Windows? by TheLink · · Score: 5, Funny

    A bit too late for a recall of 1.0 right?

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  3. Re:Windows 1.0 was barely usable by KiloByte · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, but the thing that makes Windows Windows was already there, even if it looked less organized than in later version.

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    The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.