![]() ![]() The OS also came with applications like Paint, Notepad, Write (a word processor), and Calculator. To make users more familiar and comfortable with the software, Microsoft included a game called Reversi which was mouse controlled. It relied heavily on the use of a mouse to work with its point-and-click programs, something which was extremely rare back in those days. The project was led by Bill Gates himself and it ran on top of MS-DOS. Introducing the very first Windows version in November 1983, Bill Gates mentioned that it was a “unique software designed for the serious PC user”. “Serious PC user?” Open Windows, click a mouse and…so on And well, it was special in terms of resources consumed – it was less than 1 MB in size, which many say is another reason for it being called “1”! Incidentally, it required a massive 256 KB (yes, KB) of RAM to run. But the first Windows went hand in glove with its numerical suffix and was called Windows 1.0. ![]() The latest version of the OS might have you believe that the interface has simply climbed up the number ladder over the years but Microsoft has very conveniently gone sideways, in circles, and in every shape and axis possible while coming up with a name for the different versions of the OS (we do not know what happened to Windows 4,5,9 and a few others). Naming Windows has not quite been a linear process for Microsoft. Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft then convinced the team that the name Windows would be more suited to users and saved us from what could have been a very boring name for our computer interface. Fortunately, Microsoft usually uses one-word names for its products and because the UI had multiple windows that allowed the users to run various tasks at once, the name ‘Windows’ came up. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates actually wanted it to be called Interface Manager. Imagine if the most used computer interface in the world was called something as boring as Interface Manager? Well, it almost was. Windows? Nah, Gates wanted to call it “Interface Manager” The most viewed image in the world…is a Windows wallpaper!. ![]()
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