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On 20 November 1985 the Starships “We Built This City” at the top of the US pop charts, and Microsoft launched Windows 1.0, the first of the company’s Windows operating system, which has now reached up to number 10th

Two years earlier, in 1983, Windows first launched, and Daily Dot write had Bill Gates and Microsoft which aim to Windows would be to use 90 percent of all computers in the world.

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So was not the case, and Microsoft sold 500 000 copies of Windows 1.0 from the operating system released and until Windows 2.0 was launched.

Much was about to Windows 1.0 was demanding of his time. For Windows 1.0 would even work it took two floppy disks, a memory of 256 kilobytes and a graphics card. In order to run more than one program at the same time was required twice as much memory. Whether even the memory was enough yesterday to discuss. When the New York Times reviewed the Windows called the experience that “Pouring syrup in the Arctic.”

With Windows 1.0 came several programs that now legendary Paint and Notepad. But even a calendar, a clock and a text-handling programs, functions as the company’s recent CEO Steve Ballmer boasted in a now legendary television commercials for the operating system.

Windows 1.0 was something of a flop, and underestimated grossly critics . Only when Windows 3.0 was released in 1990 for Microsoft to take over the computer market in such a way that it would do.

Despite the transition to smart phones, Windows today 90 percent of the market for PCs. The world’s most popular operating systems today, however, the mobile operating system Android, which went on Windows 2014 and today almost 90 percent of the mobile phone market.

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