Which came first, Amazon or Windows?
Windows came first, by 9 years. Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0.
Side by side
| Amazon | Windows | |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1994 | 1985 |
| Date | 1994-07-05 | 1985-11-20 |
| Category | technology | technology |
| What happened | Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state. | Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0. |
Amazon
Amazon was incorporated on 5 July 1994, originally as Cadabra, and the website opened in July 1995 selling only books. The 1994 incorporation date is used here because it is the company's own founding date; if you mean the shop, 1995 is the answer. Either way it predates Google by three or four years and eBay by about a year.
Windows
Windows 1.0 shipped in November 1985, twenty-two months after the Macintosh, and it was not an operating system — it was a graphical shell running on top of MS-DOS, and remained so until Windows NT in 1993 and the consumer transition with Windows XP in 2001. Version 1.0 could not even overlap windows: they tiled, because Apple's legal position on overlapping windows was unresolved.
Common questions
- Which came first, Amazon or Windows?
- Windows, by 9 years — 1985 against 1994.
- When did Amazon start?
- 1994. Jeff Bezos incorporated the company in Washington state.
- When did Windows start?
- 1985. Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0.
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Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)