The shipping date is estimated to be sometime in late 2006. Longhorn is now Windows Vista.
The first version of Windows was released in November 1985.
The second Tuesday of the month.
The Longhorn - 1951 was released on: USA: 25 November 1951
Microsoft will release the beta of Windows 8 in or around June 2011 and the final release of the operating system in or around October 2011. Microsoft will release the operating system October 2012. only after 3 years after the release of Windows 7 which is a very good operating system to use i dont see the point paying for Windows Media Center when you can use it for free in Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional and Ultimate and Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate what is the point of upgrading Windows 7 to Windows 8 when you have Windows Media Player 12
This personal computer operating systems was release and published on July 22, 2009 by Microsoft and was named one of the best products of the 2009 year.
Here's an interesting timeline and description of the different Windows operating systems: 1) http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/windows.htm and For a graphical/downloadable timeline of all Microsoft operating systems, see here: 1) http://www.levenez.com/windows/
Windows Server 2008 was released in February 2008. The next operating system release is expected to be Windows 7 in October 2009.
Silver Spoons - 1982 Kate Lassos a Longhorn 5-11 was released on: USA: 24 November 1986
Fantasy Island - 1977 Vampire The Lady and the Longhorn 2-13 was released on: USA: 16 December 1978
Microsoft has released many Operating systems that do not require a CD key. They simply just release sertain CD's that do not need a CD key.
Starsky and Hutch - 1975 Texas Longhorn 1-2 was released on: USA: 17 September 1975 West Germany: 11 January 1978
Bill Gates became interested in programming computers as a young teen. He and his partner developed and sold a computerized traffic counting system as teenagers in high school. He went on to Harvard, but dropped out to form Microsoft and he and his childhood partner developed the operating system MS-DOS which made them a fortune. The two went on to develop and release the Windows operating system in 1983.