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1975 |
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Microsoft was
founded |
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August 1980 |
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QDOS 0.10 released
by Seattle Computer (Quick & Dirty Operating System) |
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July 1981 |
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Microsoft buys all
rights to QDOS from Seattle Computer, renames it MS-DOS |
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March 1982 |
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Microsoft releases
MS-DOS 1.25 |
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1983 |
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DNS - Domain Name
System created at University of Wisconsin |
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February 1983 |
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MS-DOS 2.0 is
released |
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November 1985 |
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Windows 1.01 is
released |
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August 1986 |
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Windows 1.03 is
released, adds support for MS-DOS 3.2 |
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April 1987 |
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Windows 1.04 is
released, adds support for IBM PS/2 |
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November 1987 |
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Windows 2.02 is
released |
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April 1988 |
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Microsoft Windows/286 and Windows/386 version 2.10 released.
Optimized for Intel 286 |
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March 1989 |
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Microsoft Windows/286 and Windows/386 version 2.11 released |
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1989 |
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Intel introduces the
486 processor |
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May 1990 |
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Windows 3.0 is
released |
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June 1991 |
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Microsoft Word is
first run on a pre-release version of Windows NT |
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April 1992 |
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Windows 3.1 is
released |
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October 1992 |
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Windows 3.1 for
Workgroups is released |
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July 1993 |
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Windows NT is RTM
(Released To Manufacturing) |
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December 1993 |
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Windows 3.11 is
released |
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April 1994 |
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MS-DOS 6.22 is
released |
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September 1994 |
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Windows NT 3.5 is
released; 9-million lines of code |
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August 1995 |
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Windows 95 is
released amid great fanfare and publicity |
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September 1996 |
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Windows 95 OSR2 is
released |
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January 1997 |
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Office 97 ships,
Internet Explorer 4 is released a month later |
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February 1998 |
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Bill Gates gets
"cream pied" in Brussels by two men, fined US $88 each |
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May 1998 |
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Hackers crash dozens of NT-based machines in an orchestrated DoS attack |
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June 1998 |
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Windows 98 is
released |
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August 1998 |
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Bell Atlantic (now
Verizon) announces plans to offer home Internet service over
copper telephone lines using ADSL technology |
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December 1998 |
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Microsoft changes the name of Windows NT 5.0 to Windows 2000. |
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March 1999 |
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Microsoft Office 2000 is released to manufacturing |
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May 1999 |
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Windows 98 Second Edition released to manufacturing |
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December 1999 |
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Windows 2000 released to manufacturing |
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June 2000 |
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Windows ME released
to manufacturing |
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March 2001 |
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Office XP is
released to manufacturing |
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October 2001 |
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Windows XP Home &
Pro released, based on code from Win 2000 |
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January 2002 |
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Windows XP sales
exceed 17 million copies |
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September 2002 |
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Windows XP SP-1 is
released |
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October 2002 |
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Windows XP sales
surpass 67 million copies |
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July 2003 |
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Microsoft announces that it has sold 130 million copies of
Windows XP |
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May 2004 |
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Microsoft announces that it has sold 210 million copies of
Windows XP, sales continuing at 10-million/month. (Does not
include corporate sales figures). |
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August 2004 |
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Windows XP SP-2 is
released; huge SP with some glitches in it |
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July 2005 |
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Microsoft announces
it's next operating system, codenamed "Longhorn" will be named
Windows Vista |
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January 2007 |
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Windows Vista is released |
