MC2BackUp Post 1945 Windows 1.0 wasn't exactly a huge win

The first version of Microsoft Windows will be knocking on the door of its third decade Thursday when it turns the ripe old age of 29 — well past retirement in software years, given that Microsoft officially put it out to pasture in December of 2001. Still, looking back at Windows 1.0 offers exactly what its name implies: A window into how things used to be, and, in a way, how little has changed.

From:  http://time.com

First announced in 1983, Microsoft Windows 1.0 wouldn’t make it to the consumer market for another two years — making it one of the first pieces of software to be dismissed as “vaporware,” a term actually coined by a Microsoft engineer a year before the Windows announcement, as a disparaging title bestowed upon a product that’s announced but never sees the light of day.

Link:   http://time.com/3592071/windows-1-history/

 

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Mike Nichols, Beloved and EGOT-Winning Director 

of Stage & Screen, Dies at 83

Celebrated director of stage and screen Mike Nichols died on Wednesday, November 19. His death was announced in a statement by James Goldston, President of ABC News. The Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner was 83 years old.

Link:   http://www.broadway.com/buzz/178511/mike-nichols-beloved-and-egot-winning-director-of-stage-screen-dies-at-83/

 

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