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Microsoft Windows history

Skip to Mai Year Event 1983 Bill Gates  announced  Microsoft Windows  on November 10,  1983 . 1985 Microsoft  Windows  1.0 is introduced on November 20, 1985, and is initially sold for $100.00. 1987 Microsoft Windows 2.0 was released on December 9, 1987, and is initially sold for $100.00. 1987 Microsoft Windows/386 or Windows 386 is introduced on December 9, 1987, and is initially sold for $100.00. 1988 Microsoft Windows/286 or Windows 286 is introduced in June 1988, and is initially sold for $100.00. 1990 Microsoft  Windows 3.0  was released on May, 22 1990. Microsoft Windows 3.0 full version was priced at $149.95 and the upgrade version was priced at $79.95. 1991 Following its decision not to develop operating systems cooperatively with  IBM , Microsoft changes the name of  OS/2  to  Windows NT . 1991 Microsoft  Windows 3.0  or Windows 3.0a with multimedia was released in October 1991. 1992 Microsoft  Windows 3...

Computer processor history

Skip to Mai Year Event 1823 Baron Jons Jackob Berzelius discovers  silicon  (Si), which today is the basic component of processors. 1903 Nikola Tesla  patented electrical logic circuits called "gates" or "switches" in 1903. 1947 John Bardeen ,  Walter Brattain , and  William Shockley  invent the first  transistor  at the Bell Laboratories on December 23, 1947. 1948 John Bardeen ,  Walter Brattain , and  William Shockley  patent the first  transistor  in 1948. 1956 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the transistor. 1958 The first  integrated circuit  was first developed by  Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor and  Jack Kilby  of  Texas Instruments . The first IC was demonstrated on September 12, 1958. 1960 IBM  developed the first automatic mass-production facility for transistors in New York in 1960. 1968 Intel...