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.”
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