Happy Thirtieth Birthday, Windows

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Hey, it's the old logo:



Windows 1.0

Windows 1.0 is a graphical personal computer operating environment developed by Microsoft. Microsoft had worked with Apple Computer to develop applications for Apple's January 1984 original Macintosh, the first mass-produced personal computer with a graphical user interface.

Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985 as the first version of the Microsoft Windows line.

I'm sorry, but I'm not looking back with a lot of fondness:

[valerief]

1. I'm still hungover from Lisa's thirtieth.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2026544/the-little-known-apple-lisa-five-quirks-and-oddities.html

[hunter]

2. In science fiction Bill Gates sold out to Space Aliens who wanted to retard human advancement...

... in the computer software arts.

Like MS-DOS and Windows, the original IBM PC was another crippled thing since IBM didn't want to create a personal computer that could evolve into something competing with their mainframe business.

Meanwhile the internet was being developed by people with a more academic approach, on much less twisted computer architectures and operating systems.

Both Apple and Microsoft were blindsided by the emergence of the internet and World Wide Web., which were developed by hard-core science and technical people, not business sharks like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs. although Steve Jobs did recognize the problem first, with the NeXT computer, which was the tool Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau used to develop the world's first web server software.