Cairo was the codename for a project at Microsoft that ran from 1991 to 1996, chartered to build technologies for a next generation operating system meant to fulfill a vision, credited to Bill Gates, of information at your fingertips. The project never shipped as its own operating system, although portions of the technologies it developed later appeared in other Microsoft products. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Cairo was the codename for a project at Microsoft from 1991 to 1996. Its charter was to build technologies for a next-generation operating system that would fulfill Bill Gates's vision of "information at your fingertips."
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Cairo never shipped, although portions of its technologies have since appeared in other products.
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Its charter was to build technologies for a next-generation operating system that would fulfill Bill Gates's vision of 'information at your fingertips.'
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