Happy 30th birthday, Windows!

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Windows 1.0 released on this day in 1985

The first version of Windows was released on this day in 1985. Back then, Windows 1.0 came in a box with two 3.5-inch floppy disks and required 256-kilobytes (KB) of memory, a graphics card, MS-...

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