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Windows 1.0 Unveiled 40-Years-Ago Bill Gates
Microsoft Windows 1.0 was unveiled 40-years-ago today by Bill Gates during a special event in New York City’s Helmsley Palace Hotel. The official release didn’t come until November 20, 1985, more than 2-years later. This operating system runs on MS-DOS as a 16-bit shell program known as MS-DOS Executive, providing an environment capable of running graphical programs designed for Windows, as well as existing MS-DOS software.