Microsoft Timeline of Operating System & Office Suite Launches

This is one of those things I’m posting for the sake of having it archived – I found it on this USA Today article about Vista.

MICROSOFT TIMELINE
Date Event
Aug. 12, 1981 IBM introduces its personal computer with Microsoft’s 16-bit operating system, MS-DOS 1.0
Aug. 1, 1989 Office suite launched
May 22, 1990 Windows 3.0 launched
Aug. 24, 1995 Windows 95 launched
June 25, 1998 Windows 98 launched
Feb. 17, 2000 Windows 2000 launched
May 31, 2001 Office XP launched
Oct. 25, 2001 Windows XP launched
Nov. 30, 2006 Windows Vista made available to businesses
Jan. 30, 2007 Windows Vista made available to consumers