It might not be the most popular operating system with civilians, but that’s not stopping the U.S. Department of Defense from embracing Windows Vista.Military IT technicians on Friday will start the process of upgrading about 30,000 personal computers used by Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine personnel on the Korean peninsula from Windows XP to Windows Vista, according to an official military publication.
At Microsoft’s recent Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles, the air crackled with anticipation. On the heels of Vista, arguably the biggest disaster in Microsoft’s history, Windows 7 was about to be revealed. A blast of fanfare, and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie took the stage to pull the wraps off the new desktop operating system–which would deliver better performance, an improved user experience, and some nifty media-sharing features. The crowd salivated at the chance to play with Microsoft’s latest and greatest.
Twenty five years ago, Microsoft introduced Windows 1.0, an ugly duckling of an operating system that few people loved, and even fewer used. I’m one of the few who actually had my hands on it, and have also used just about every version of the operating system since then. Here’s my own personal history of the ups and downs of Windows over the last two and a half decades.

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