Lengthy-time Slashdot reader cusco writes: Forty years in the past as we speak Microsoft launched its new Graphical Person Interface for MS-DOS. Impressed by the Xerox PARC venture Alto, as was the Apple Mac, it was their first try to handle the person unfriendliness of the usual laptop interface. Named Home windows 1.0 after the “home windows” it created to view particular person operating packages, it generated fairly a little bit of curiosity on the preliminary reveal. Sadly, problem in ironing out bugs (particularly in reminiscence administration) delayed launch for 2 years, to November 1985.
Microsoft Windows Turns 40 – Slashdot
