The countdown from 1.0 to 7...
By Tim Ferguson
Published: 10 December 2008 11:46 GMT
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Microsoft Windows has been around for more than 20 years and love it or hate it, it's the most ubiquitous desktop operating system in the world.
The first version, aptly called Windows 1.0 (seen in its box above) was released in 1985 and changed the way computer users could interact with their PCs using bitmap graphics and a mouse.
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