40 years ago, Microsoft presented Windows 1.0 at the Comdex computer trade fair in Las Vegas. In 1985, Bill Gates demonstrated at Comdex what could be done with the graphical user interface “Windows 1 ...
Windows 1.0 didn't exactly blow the industry away, but it laid the groundwork for Microsoft's future success.
First developed in 1981 by computer scientist Chase Bishop, the software project that would eventually become Windows actually started life under a far wonkier name: "Interface ...