Windows Turns 25 : A Perfect Journey

[DKT27]

Today 25 years ago, Microsoft released with proper delay Windows 1.0. In the former c't was pleased the reviewer of dialog boxes and mouse for PCs, the computer with an A (Amiga, Apple, Atari) already had. That the graphic attachment for MS-DOS should be 3.1 the most successful operating system in the world, no one suspected.

"Microsoft Windows is an extension of the DOS operating system. Windows allows it to integrate the various tasks seamlessly on one computer and increasing your efficiency. With Windows, you can work with multiple programs simultaneously. You can add a few buttons or a mouse click between the programs Switch and save time. And because you never have to close a program, you can always continue working where you are stopped. Windows gives you an easy way to hand, information exchange between DOS programs. "

With these words led the manual of Windows 1.0 (in Germany started as a Windows 1.03) the purchaser of the printing paper in the "philosophy" of Windows. Computers that are always running, applications that crash, and also never a sovereign user who juggles information was in 1985 in the far distance. When Windows 25 years ago, presented at Comdex in Las Vegas, this was still not a big sensation. "Now even Microsoft," the headline of the press and even Bill Gates did not then Windows is the most important Microsoft program: MS-DOS 3.2, which was released in January 1986, he presented in more detail. Gates that the 22 May 1990 introduced Windows 3.0 would become the richest man in the world, and Microsoft for this one great day 10 million would be invested in advertising was in 1985 all the way off.

To restart Windows to be able to read the manual to buy an Intel Above Board recommended the expansion of memory – one of the many temporary,

with which Windows users previously had to bother hour. Also, a hard disk was listed as recommended because Windows had otherwise very often access to floppy disks. For learning Windows and how to deal with the commands Cut, Copy and paste was the program Notepad (notepad) to be copied with a list of accumulating work, changed, moved and linked to alarm signals from the Clock should. The individual tasks to be sorted: Call dentist, clean garage, war and peace, read, take garbage out, call the piano tuner. The project referred to by Bill Gates (to the idea of Windows NT on RISC machines) as "the most important Windows program" play solitaire was missing in the original Windows, it was only with Windows 3.0.

Windows 1.0 to 2.0 sold very poorly. Even the cheapest entry-level package with Windows and a mouse for 900 DM remained on the shelves of the dealers are. Only with the decision by Microsoft to deliver Windows 2.03 as a free addition to MS-DOS with new PCs, the situation changed. When this happened in March 1988, Apple sued Microsoft and Hewlett Packard (which drove a Windows clone called New Wave). Apple made a loss of 4.5 billion claim. Although Microsoft had licensed before the launch of Windows specific usage rights from Apple, but were Steve Jobs and his colleagues is evidently assumed that Windows would only sold separately.

1993 Apple lost the process. The judge found that 90 percent of Windows in conformity with the usage rights purchased by Microsoft and the rest did not come from Apple. This in turn led Xerox's lawyers on the plan, which sued Apple, because Apple introduced in 1981 by Xerox Star had taken over controls. That action was abgeschmettert because under U.S. law was too late. "Xerox is unable to make vision a decent product from a. Xerox creates sue not even to us in time", etched, the then marketing director for Apple, Guy Kawasaki .

For the 25th year anniversary Microsoft looks happy the story back to its operating systems. Windows 7 as the latest offspring is thriving. 5 years ago this was a different place, there was not celebrated. The world waited for the long-awaited Windows Vista, which then turned out not to have the expected litter, because it was slow and memory-hungry. After all, sent Microsoft has stopped the infamous "Performance Tuning Disk" as to the time when Windows 3.11 with OS / 2, was in dispute: The program not only gave tips to better Windows settings, but sought to competing products like WordPerfect and gave the recommendation to replace them by Microsoft software. War and peace alternate.

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[JessicaLeigh]

Aaaaaw... I love a happy ending. :)

Teary-eyed moment over. Now on to more important things...

Let's see if anyone will be able to suppress or circumvent the W7 SP1 technology to detect forced activation methods. :(

[tipo]

:birthday: microsoft!

[nsane.forums]

Microsoft Windows, the operating system that rose to dominance of the home and business PC market turns 25 years old today. Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985, and at first didn't catch on as well as Microsoft had hoped. Two years later Microsoft would release Windows 2.0, and then Windows 3.1 which got the ball rolling.

Windows 1.0 started as a graphical user interface for MS-DOS back in September 1981 and at the time named "Interface Manager." Bill Gates would later on present this development to the public on November 10 1983 where it was renamed "Windows." The name "Windows" comes from the name given to the graphic elements of individual tasks which could be moved around. Microsoft was very proud of their product, but others weren't ready to jump on the bandwagon yet, or even think there was going to be a bandwagon.

Carnegie Mellon IT guy Nathaniel Borenstein didn't see Windows as anything special, and according to Gizmodo even had this to say when demoed the GUI: "We laughed, just laughed them out of the place because we had a vastly superior window manager of our own, and these guys came in with this pathetic and naïve system. We just knew they were never going to accomplish anything."

Two years later Windows 1.0 shipped, but not as much more than a user interface to DOS with very limited functionality, including the inability to overlap windows. Over at Apple, in 1984 Mac OS was released, which was a functional, yet command line lacking OS. Microsoft had to play catch up and make something that wasn't strictly a GUI to MS-DOS, but that would have features of its own too.

Microsoft Windows would come to be respected in the workplace with Windows 3.1, and then even more at home with the release of Windows 95. From there the next major improvement came with Windows NT which operating systems Windows 2000 and Windows XP through Windows 7 are based on, and included a new file system, NTFS.

Windows has certainly come a long way in usability, concepts, looks, innovation, and even popularity from its early days. Here is to another 25 good years, you've earned it!

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