{"id":2073,"date":"2015-10-02T13:20:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2073"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:07:59","slug":"30-years-of-microsoft-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/30-years-of-microsoft-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"30 years of Microsoft Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 30 years since the launch of the first Microsoft Windows &#8211; and a lot has changed during the intervening years, not least in the tech landscape.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Open your Windows<\/h2>\n<p>Back in 1985, no-one but a few university-based boffins had heard of the internet, a mobile phone was anything but, and we were only just learning of the evils of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/three-ways-google-will-kill-us-all\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skynet <\/a>as the first The Terminator film had just been released.<\/p>\n<p>30 years on, and most of us\u00a0have a mobile phone, if not a smartphone, we&#8217;re all online, and Skynet is looking like it could become a grim, dystopian reality if things go awry at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/first-robots-now-ai-whats-going-google\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google&#8217;s AI department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And so by way of a nostalgia trip, here&#8217;s a great infographic from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsofttraining.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">MicrosoftTraining.net <\/a>that maps the history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/?s=microsoft\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a>\u00a0Windows from 1985 to 2015&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conferencecall.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/windows.jpg\" alt=\"windows\" width=\"581\" height=\"2089\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been 30 years since the launch of the first Microsoft Windows &#8211; and a lot has changed during the intervening years, not least in the tech landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[29,18],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - 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