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28. juni 2001 - 10:20
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1975 Microsoft formed
August 25, 1980 XENIX operating system announced by Microsoft.
August 12, 1981 MS-DOS 1.0 ships with the new IBM Personal Computer
March, 1983 MS-DOS 2.0 ships
November 10, 1983 Microsoft Windows announced
November, 1984 MS-DOS 3.1 available
November 20, 1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 released
April, 1986 MS-DOS 3.2 ships
April 2, 1987 Microsoft Operating System/2 (MS OS/2) announced, as part of a joint agreement between Microsoft and IBM
That same day, Microsoft announces MS-DOS 3.3, Windows 2.0 and Windows /386. These new versions are the first with overlapping windows.
June 28, 1988 Windows /286 and /386 versions 2.1 announced
July, 1988 MS-DOS 4.0 released (ugh)
October 31, 1988 OS/2 1.1 with Presentation Manager ships.
David Cutler, formerly of Digital and now working for Microsoft, begins work on Windows NT.
November, 1988 MS-DOS 4.01 shipped to correct 4.0 problems
May 22, 1990 Microsoft releases Windows 3.0. First version of Windows to allow use of memory beyond 640Kb.
October, 1991 Windows NT is displayed publicly at a demo at COMDEX.
October 20, 1991 Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions released.
June, 1991 MS-DOS 5.0 ships.
April 6, 1992 Windows 3.1 released. Adds TrueType fonts and many other features.
October 27, 1992 Windows for Workgroups 3.1 released, adding easier, integrated networking.
March, 1993 MS-DOS 6.0 ships.
August, 1993 Windows NT 3.1 released. It consists of over 6 million lines of code.
November, 1993 MS-DOS 6.2 released.
February 15, 1994 Windows for Workgroups 3.11 released.
March 2, 1994 MS-DOS 6.21 ships with drive compression removed due to a law suit.
April 11, 1994 MS-DOS 6.22 ships with new DriveSpace drive compression.
September 6, 1994 Windows NT 3.5 released. It consists of over 9 million lines of code.
April 20, 1995 Frank Condron\'s World O\'Windows begins operation (sorry, couldn\'t resist!)
June, 1995 Windows NT 3.51 released. Minor release is to support upcoming Windows 95 programs.
August 24, 1995 Windows 95 released.
August 24, 1996 Windows NT 4.0 released. It consists of over 16 million lines of code.
November, 1996 Windows CE 1.0 released, supporting handheld-PCs
September, 1997 Windows NT 5.0 Beta 1 released.
November, 1997 Windows CE 2.0 released
December, 1997 Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack released
June 25, 1998 Windows 98 released.
July, 1998 Windows CE 2.1 released, supporting palm-sized PCs
August 1998 Windows NT 5.0 Beta 2 released to testers
October 27, 1998 Microsoft announces that Windows NT 5.0 will be renamed \"Windows 2000\"
April 29, 1999 Windows 2000 Beta 3 released to testers
May 5, 1999 Windows 98 Second Edition released
July, 1999 Windows 2000 Release Candidate 1 released to testers
August 25, 1999 Microsoft and Compaq discontinue all Windows NT/2000 development for the Alpha processor
September 19, 1999 Windows 2000 Release Candidate 2 released to testers
November 17, 1999 Windows 2000 Release Candidate 3 released to testers
November 29, 1999 \"Millennium\" beta 2, successor to Windows 98SE, sent to beta testers
December 15, 1999 Windows 2000 released to manufacturing, official launch date still set for February 17, 2000
Altså findes der en Windows 1.0.....