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Microsoft recognized a shift in the market following the success of the Apple Macintosh, which popularized the GUI. To compete and to make computers more accessible to the general public, Microsoft began developing a graphical shell known initially as "Interface Manager." This was later renamed "Windows" to better describe the computing "windows" on the screen.

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Windows 1.0 wasn’t an operating system in the modern sense—it was a graphical shell running on top of MS-DOS. At the time, it introduced a bold new concept: moving beyond the command line with a mouse-driven interface featuring drop-down menus, tiled windows (not overlapping—they couldn’t overlap!), and simple applications like Calculator, Notepad, Paint, and a clock. Microsoft recognized a shift in the market following