Timeline

Below is a timeline of some significant events in the history of Microsoft and other companies in the technology industry.

1960's | 1970's | 1980-1984 | 1985-1989 | 1990-1994 | 1995 | 1996-1999 | 2000's

1985-1989

Time Period	Description
April, 1987	Microsoft debuts Windows 2.0.
October, 1987	Microsoft debuts Microsoft Excel for Windows
December, 1987	IBM debuts its OS/2 1.0 operating system
October, 1988	IBM debuts OS/2 1.10 Standard Edition (SE) which added a graphical user interface (GUI) to the OS called Presentation Manager (PM)
1989	Tim Berners-Lee develops a point-and-click hypertext editor called "WorlDwidEweb" while working at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN). The World Wide Web (WWW) is created.