Windows 1.0 released 40 years ago today - and started Microsoft's road to success

Underpinned by the iconic MS-DOS command line, Windows 1.0 is notable in that it specifically required a computer mouse to ...
The Escapist

Windows 1.0 turns 40: Time is a flat circle as Xbox and Microsoft feel as if they’re back in 1985

Time to flip open those Microsoft Windows history books, because this might be one of the only mentions of "OS/2" on this ...

40 Years of Windows

40 years ago, Microsoft presented Windows 1.0 at the Comdex computer trade fair in Las Vegas. In 1985, Bill Gates ...
Lifehacker

How to Get Windows 1.0 From 1985 Without the 'Stranger Things' Tie-Ins

Microsoft “re-released” Windows 1.0 this week as part of a partnership with that Stranger Things show I have yet to binge on Netflix. While it’s free for you to download and play with—on Windows, of ...
PC Magazine

Windows 1.0

The original version of Microsoft Windows, which was introduced in 1985. Windows 1.0 was a DOS application that provided a crude windowing environment. Its "MS-DOS Executive" was the launching pad for ...