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Windows 95 ? A somewhat hazy memory at this point ( whether you leave out it or not ) . But Windows 1.0 ? One compass point oh ? Mostly forgotten . But bring it up again , and all the problems and primitiveness of it might surprise you .
Windows 1.0 was two eld late — transport , finally , on November 20th , 1985 . Bill Gates had announced it , in grand 80s style , at the Plaza Hotel in New York . It would be corking . It would be graphical . It would , most of all , bring Microsoft up to engagement with Apple , whose GUI systems were smoking the unwieldy textual matter fest that was MS - DOS . Text was dead . People wanted to see their files , not understand them . People wanted metaphor . Each thing you require to do on a computer — that was something separate in your head , right ? They should be surround off , not all slopped together in a tower of control prompts . They could be in , perhaps , some form of orthogonal boundary . A window , if you will .
in short thereafter , Microsoft start up tour around to demo their new wonder port . window ! Move ’em around ! Be stunned ! And how were they received by would - be customers ? This probably says it all : “ We laughed , just express mirth them out of the berth , ” says Nathaniel Borenstein , who was doing IT work for Carnegie Mellon at the clock time , “ Because we had a immensely superior windowpane managing director of our own , and these guys came in with this wretched and naïve system . We just know they were never going to accomplish anything . ”
Nathaniel was mostly right — except about that last part , of course . But it was a clunker . It was bland . How bland ? They were going to call it “ Interface Manager ” before a salvia marketing chief interfere . Interface Manager . It was functionally sparse — a tepid drip of graphical interface . No crank can to delete files ! And the window themselves ? The feature so large they named the intact group O after it ? They could n’t overlap . If you wanted to save blank , you could only throw them onto a mostly useless “ tile ” sentiment . This was still the case two years later , when Windows in the end shipped . Late .
A quarter of a one C later—25 year that admit a lot of elbowing against Apple — Windows is beyond dominant . While 1.0 might have been an unimpressive misfire , some looping of Windows is now feed on over 90 % of all computers . So in spite of Nathaniel Borenstein , happy birthday small guy . It took you 25 years , but you made it .
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