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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 SirThe · · Score: 1, Troll

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

      No they didn't, Apple ripped off Xerox.