Back in 1985, Microsoft took personal computing from cryptic command lines to something your grandmother might actually use. But here's a fun twist - the software that would become Windows almost launched with a name that sounds like it was pulled from a programmer's filing cabinet. What was it?
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The answer is: Interface Manager. It’s not that using the name Windows is some kind of genius marketing move, it’s that the previous name was just so lame. While Interface Manager was fairly accurate in terms of what the system did, it didn’t exactly have much of a ring to it. Luckily they had updated the name by the time Windows 1.0 was released in 1985.Source
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