Windows 1.0 was Microsoft's first graphical operating environment, a shell that ran on top of the text-based MS-DOS rather than a complete operating system. It let users run several programs in tiled, non-overlapping windows and operate them with a mouse, and it included small applications such as a calculator, calendar and a paint program. It was developed in response to the growing interest in graphical interfaces, following Apple's Lisa and Macintosh. The first version was slow, ran on limited hardware and sold only modestly. Windows 2.0 added overlapping windows, but the series became a mass-market success only with Windows 3.0 in 1990.
Before and after
- 3 October 1985First flight of Atlantis
- 24 October 1985Birth of Wayne Rooney
- 16 November 1985Birth of Sanna Marin
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- 20 November 1985Creation of Windows 1.0
- 8 December 1985Founding of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
- 28 December 1985First flight of Fokker 50
- 30 December 1985Discovery of Puck
- 1986Launch of The Independent
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- 14 February 1961Discovery of lawrencium
- 8 December 1994Discovery of roentgenium
- 1996Discovery of copernicium
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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