Congrats, Windows, You're a Quarter Century Old

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This is vintage Windows along with some vintage Ballmer.

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Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam
Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.
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  • Parsian
    Steve Ballmer is psychotic. I love him.

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  • TheRockMonsi
    Good for Windows. :)
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  • zak_mckraken
    but eventually PCs were gradually moved from the command line interface to the graphical styles of Windows.
    Linux users will disagree! ;)
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  • dogman_1234
    Happy Birthday Windows!
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  • bystander
    I've seen that video before, and couldn't last 3 seconds before stopping it this time around. There is something terribly uncomfortable about watching an over the top sales pitch.

    Oh, and did this guy ever have hair?
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  • tuch92
    Except in Nebraska...
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  • Lutfij
    lol - "the time of the floppy are upon us!" - back in 1988

    so many things had changed, all cos of this troublesome DOS cmd that lead us to the GUI
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  • It's like I've taken a trip through time... except only one month back, not 25 years.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/news/steve-ballmer-windows-tv-commercial,11522.html
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  • the_krasno
    But can it run Wolfenstein 3D?
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  • thechief73
    I remember starting out on Windows 3.1 with a IBM running at 12MHz, Intro to PC's 101 for me. It wasnt very pleasing on the eye compaired with what were using today :) and there wasn't much a young kid could do on a PC back then: Paint and a paly few games, mess around with Q-basic.
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