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 * Window History facts **

[|Windows] has been through many iterations since Windows 1.0 hit the shelves in 1985, with the latest and most advanced is [|Windows 7]

1. Windows 1.0 was released on 20th Nov 1985 and the hardware requirements were 256KB of RAM, DOS 2.0 and two floppy [|drives], two years late.

2. The retail price was $100, which is worth about $177 in today’s money.

3. [|Microsoft] sent out a press kit featuring a Squeegee (Window washer) and a washcloth to announce the launch of Windows 1.0.

4. If Bill Gates had got his way, he would have called it “**Interface Manager**”.

5. Windows 1.0 was only out for two weeks before it had to be patched to fix bugs. Windows 1.0 crashed an estimated 25 times a day.

6. Windows 3.1 was the first stable release, which led to many hardware manufacturers preloading it on their computers. This proved to be a major turning point in Windows history and world domination.

7. Erik Noyes from Charles Schwab came up with the phrase [|Blue Screen] of Death “BSoD” in 1991.

8. Between 1986 and 1996 Microsoft’s stock soared hundred-fold and it was estimated that Microsoft had created 10,000 millionaires by 2000.

9. Bill Gates earns $250 every second, $20m a day and $7.8BN a year. If Bill drops a thousand dollar bill, it’s not worth his while to pick it up, as he will make the same amount in the time it takes him to pick it up.