Windows is celebrating its 40th anniversary today. On November 20, 1985, Microsoft released Windows 1.0, a graphical user interface that ran on top of Microsoft DOS. 40 years later, it’s a platform that powers over 1.4 billion devices across the globe and is the desktop platform when you think of the “PC.”
Popular versions like Windows 95, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/windows-xp” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/windows-xp”>Windows XP, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/windows-7″ data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/tag/windows-7″>Windows 7, and data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-10″ data-url=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-10″ target=”_blank” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-redirect=”/windows-10″ data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows/windows-10″>Windows 10 have remained in people’s hearts and cemented themselves in pop culture forever. These are the versions of Windows people will…

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