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43 years ago today, two years before its eventual release, Microsoft announced Windows. (lemmy.ml)
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https://books.google.com/books?id=uy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

screenshot of text in a magazine: A leading software company has opened a second front in the developing window wars. Less than two weeks after VisiCorp started shipping its long-awaited Visi On integrated software package, archrival Microsoft has fired an answering volley by introducing a lower-cost window manager with new features that both users and applications-program developers will love. On November 10, in New York, Microsoft announced Windows, a window manager and graphical-device interface designed to integrate applications soft- ware running on the IBM Personal Computer and IBM PC-compatible com- puters. Microsoft is billing Windows as an extension of Microsoft's MS-DOS operat- ing system. Window managers offer personal-com- puter users the ability to view several programs or documents on the screen simultaneously. Users can move, resize and sometimes stack windows in order to focus on one document while referring to others. Window managers generally con- vey the metaphor of a desktop environ- ment — stacks of paper on the desktop with a filing cabinet and wastebasket close by.

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Bill: "Mommy, do you know anyone on the IBM board of directors I can pitch directly to?"
Bills' Mum: "Well heck sure I do sweetie-kins - it's a lock!"

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