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Today's part of our regular series on significant events in the history of technology will deal with Twitter and the Windows 10 operating system. In connection with the Twitter social network, we will remind you of the registration of the relevant domain, the second part of today's article will be devoted to the conference at which Microsoft presented details about the operating system being prepared at the time of Windows 10.

The Beginnings of Twitter (2000)

On January 21, 2000, the twitter.com domain was registered. However, six years passed from the registration to the first public launch of Twitter - the founders of Twitter did not originally own the mentioned domain at all. The Twitter platform as such was created in March 2006, and was behind it Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams. Twitter was launched to the public in July 2006, and this microblogging platform quickly gained popularity among users. In 2012, more than 100 million users published 340 million tweets per day, in 2018 Twitter could already boast 321 million monthly active users.

Microsoft presents details about Windows 10 (2015)

On January 21, 2015, Microsoft held a conference at which it revealed to the public more details about its upcoming Windows 10 operating system. During the conference, for example, the virtual assistant Cortana, the Continuum function, or perhaps the Windows 10 operating system in a version for smart phones were presented . During the aforementioned conference, Microsoft also drew attention to the possibility of playing Xbox games on computers with Windows 10 and on tablets, and also presented the Surface Hub display.

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