A brief history of Microsoft Windows through the ages

With Windows 95 at 25 years old, we look back at the complete history of Microsoft Windows.

But Windows wasn't always known as Windows. If a rose by any other name would have smelled as sweet then we'd all be using Interlace Manager every time we turned on our computers. That was how it all began for Microsoft's project in 1981 when what became Windows was first under development.

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Fortunately, by the time Windows 1.0 was released in 1985 some clever soul thought a slightly more consumer-focused name might be better. They were right. And the rest, as they say, is history.

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