The first version included MS-DOS file management, Paint, Windows Writer, Notepad, Calculator, a calendar, card file, clock and even a game called Reversi. Microsoft had, effectively, created its own market by developing a 16-bit graphical operating system that could run using two cheap double-sided floppy disk drives and 256KB of RAM on top of DOS all built onto a graphical user interface sold at one cheap price. Steve Ballmer, in his first ever video outing, boomed that the OS was priced at not $1,000 or $500 but just $99 and this represented a huge attraction for consumers – even if Ballmer's voice was that bit too high pitched for most to cope with.Īpple's Lisa was priced at circa $10,000 with the other competing device from Visi On requiring a wallet-emptying amount to be spent on hardware. Whether it was unique is for Apple and Microsoft to squabble over, and they did, but what cannot be denied is that when Microsoft Windows 1.0 did finally arrive two years late on 20 November 1985 it was about to propel personal computing into the mainstream.
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