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Windows On Windows
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The YouTube channel on the history & development of #Microsoft #Windows. 📺 Join the Discord @ dsc.gg/wowserv! 👨🏻💻 Follow for daily Windows facts. 🤓 #WIMVP
- Bill Gates posing for the press at the Windows XP launch in New York, 25th October 2001.
- Name a bigger downgrade.
Name a bigger downgrade. - Ok, but it’s actually not Windows Vista in that pic… 🫣
- In January 1996, Charles O’Rear was driving through Sonoma County, California. “My God, the grass is perfect!” he thought, as he caught sight of a hill. Pulling over, he had no idea the photo he was about to take would become the most famous & loved @Windows wallpaper ever. 🖼
- Windows XP build 2210, from 2nd March 2000, is the earliest available build of a 64-bit edition of Windows. Designed for DEC Alpha, it predated Intel Itanium, which XP would eventually support. Its boot screen is notably just Windows 2000’s with “64” crudely spray painted on top.
