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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. Amiga by pyster · · Score: 1, Troll

    Apple? Lets not re-write history. Amiga OS was the DOMINATE gui of the 80s. Apple's GUI was complete garbage; AND IT DIDNT MULTI TASK.

    1. Re:Amiga by Osgeld · · Score: 0, Troll

      Amiga didnt even come out till 1987 and by then there was more than a half dozen revamps to the mac and mac os totaling in the millions of machines

      lets not confuse the facts with misty eyed nostalgia, Amiga rocked, to bad no one bought many

    2. Re:Amiga by SirThe · · Score: 1, Troll

      Apple did it first, which was the point of the summary.

      No they didn't, Apple ripped off Xerox.

  2. Re:Recalling Windows? by Combatso · · Score: 0, Troll

    turns out the Accelerate and Brake procedures in Toyota's ran on top of Windows 1.0

  3. Re:GEOS was better than windows 1.0 by dryeo · · Score: 0, Troll

    IIRC it got killed along with all the other alternative GUIs when Apple sued everyone over the look and feel thing. Unluckily Windows survived based on the cross licensing agreement for Office on the Mac.

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  4. Re:Windows 1.0 was barely usable by Shotgun · · Score: 0, Troll

    Same here. And my next thought was "Maybe there'll be a recall election...."

    Unfortunately, I think Obama has been in office to long for that to happen. Nice thought, though.

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