The many faces of Windows

Windows Vista is going to be released tonight. As I sit here writing this article it is only 3 hours, 3 minutes, 24 seconds before it is unleashed to the general public.
It is times like this I get nostalgic and start thinking of the first time I got my hands on a copy of Windows. I remember when I was a student interning at a local computer store, and DOS was the only game in town. I still thought my Commodore 64 kicked its butt at the time.
They purchased a new demo system - I had to set it up for the sales floor. Yes. They had real sales people on commission back then, and they made a mint selling systems. They wanted me to install Windows. Windows? I said. What the heck is that?
Once I started to play with it I was hooked. It was the first time [...]

Original post by Steve Wiseman and plugin by Elliott Back

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