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Thirty years ago, on November 20, 1985, Microsoft released version 1.0 of its new graphical shell called Windows. Much has been written about how Microsoft copied the Macintosh and Lisa, and how in ...

A graphical user interface (GUI, pronounced “gooey”) is a computer environment that simplifies the user’s interaction with the computer by representing programs, commands, files, and other options as ...

It wasn’t too far back in the past that I came to know that Microsoft was an amalgamation of two words: Micro-computers and software. Someone from Microsoft tweeted that, making me go back to check ...