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In 1983, Bill Gates and competitor Steve Jobs went to the 1983 Comdex and saw a Xerox Parc workstation running a user interface that used pictures instead of mnemonics and a mouse instead of a keyboard for most functions. Both of them ran off to make their own version for their own brands, for Apple it was the ubiqutous Mac OS, for Microsoft, it was, of course, Microsoft Windows.
The earliest demo of Microsoft Windows shows up in 1983, pissing off Apple, who then hurries up thier Apple GUI on the mac that came out in 1984, while Windows waited till 1985 and released Windows 1.01 to little fanfare. Windows was pretty ymuch a failure of a MS-DOS graphical shell until about 1992, when Windows 3.1 took off and people started using it. That's REALLY where Windows started to gain marketshare. 1995 is truly though, the year Windows became Mainstream. Windows 95 pretty much set the standard for everything going forward, and the world of computing would be forever changed to look like that from that point on. It also became a much less exciting and intersting place. So this section deals with Legacy Windows - anything that has i486 as a minimum systme requirement or lower (so Windows 2000 and lower). Though we might try some...uh...sick experiments here and there.
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