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Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed

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Windows 1.0 turns 27 on November 10th, 1983 , when Microsoft announced it.

Windows was an attempt to make the desktop operating system relatively affordable.

It took two more years for Windows to be released long enough for the industry to write it off as vaporware”.

Windows 1.0 launched to optimistic but middling reviews in 1985 .

It took two more versions of Windows for the operating system to catch on.

Windows Snap brings back the tiled interface with Windows Snap , and not all apps are functional when resized.

The issues that stymied Windows when Microsoft was young won’t necessarily block today ’s operating system from success.

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