25 Years Ago, Bill Gates Announced Windows 1.0.

This is a nice article with screenshots of how Windows 1.0 looked backed then. Did you know Microsoft offered MS Paint and MS Write software free with Windows 1.0, compete with Apple Macintosh?

Windows 1.0 was released two years after it was first debuted by Bill Gates at an elaborate event at New York City's posh Helmsley Palace Hotel in 1983.

http://gizmodo.com/5082281/25-years-ago-today-bill-gates-announced-windows-10

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/11/dayintech_1110