By Tim Ferguson
Published: Wednesday 10 December 2008
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Simon
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As Biscuit Tin says, it was hardly a big breakthrough unless you were blinkered to everything going on outside Redmond.
"...and changed the way computer users could interact with their PCs using bitmap graphics and a mouse." Err no, Windows didn't do that, Apple did it a year earlier, and work done by Xerox at it's PARC (Palo Alto Research Centre). So it changed the way "PC" users worked, the rest of the industry was already ahead of them - and it's still the same 20-odd years later.
Wasn't it the Apple Mac (possibly as the Lisa) tha...
Anonymous
Windows was always playing catch-up with other mor...
Biscuit Tin
I wouldn't call Windows 1,2 or 3 an "operating sys...
Roy Corneloues
O happy memories...
But if this is a potted his...
adam Cainer
As Biscuit Tin says, it was hardly a big breakthro...
Simon
The level of anti-microsoft feeling articles like ...
Drew Stephenson
Well companys always borrow from eachother, the fi...
Anonymous
Drew Stephenson you are totally right.
Peoples ...
Andersen John
when working for a company many years ago, the dev...
Karen Challinor
Ah, Windows 3.1. The only version that ever worked...
Carl Bennett
Ah yes, I remember well... and I particularly reme...
Richard A
Unfortunately, Drew, you ARE missing the point som...
Nigel Goodey
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