Windows 1.0
Preliminary name Interface Manager, Window Manager
Official release date November 20, 1985

The very first version of Windows, Microsoft's graphical environment for MS-DOS. It is often overlooked due to support for the platform being extremely miniscule at this stage, but you might be stunned by some of its capabilities that could've reached general availability, including a high color multimedia encyclopedia program.

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