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25 years of Windoze pictorial tour.

techs

techs

Lifer
http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti..._years_of_Windows?taxonomyId=125&pageNumber=1

Visual tour: 25 years of Windows
See how the world's most popular operating system has evolved over the last quarter century.


Windoze 1.0
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See the rest at the link.
 
Did anyone ever load Win 1 or 2? Seems that Win 3, or more specifically Win 3.1 was the first version ready for prime time. It helped that Mosaic came out at roughly the same time and gave people a reason to move to Windows.


Jeff7 said:
Gah! Windows Millenium Edition!
KILL IT! KILL IT!
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It's kind of funny how people hated Win Me. It came pre-loaded on one machine we used and we never had any of the issues people bitched about. We figured it was just re-badged Win 95b.
 
IronWing said:
Did anyone ever load Win 1 or 2? Seems that Win 3, or more specifically Win 3.1 was the first version ready for prime time. It helped that Mosaic came out at roughly the same time and gave people a reason to move to Windows.
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I've still got a floppy drive if you have the disks.
 
IronWing said:
Did anyone ever load Win 1 or 2? Seems that Win 3, or more specifically Win 3.1 was the first version ready for prime time. It helped that Mosaic came out at roughly the same time and gave people a reason to move to Windows.

It's kind of funny how people hated Win Me. It came pre-loaded on one machine we used and we never had any of the issues people bitched about. We figured it was just re-badged Win 95b.
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It was actually Win98 3rd edition, and it did add some nice features like System Restore and shit.
Of course, it was so messed up that you really needed the restore points but it was nice they made some progress. Luckily XP came out a short while later and seriously improved the computer as a home device.
 
shortylickens said:
It was actually Win98 3rd edition, and it did add some nice features like System Restore and shit.
Of course, it was so messed up that you really needed the restore points but it was nice they made some progress. Luckily XP came out a short while later and seriously improved the computer as a home device.
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Actually ME was more like the beta, beta, beta pre-testing, edition of Windoze 2000. Somehow it got leaked and Microsoft pretended it was a real operating system.
 
IronWing said:
Did anyone ever load Win 1 or 2? Seems that Win 3, or more specifically Win 3.1 was the first version ready for prime time. It helped that Mosaic came out at roughly the same time and gave people a reason to move to Windows.
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Yes, I loaded Win 1 some time around 1987 or so. Didn't keep it, lol! 😛
 
My mom still refuses to use any OS other than Windows 95.

Windows 95 is when I jumped ship from the A1200 [I was a c64/apple geek - I didn't like the drab looking MS OS's prior to 95].

Luckily I've managed to obtain free copies of very MS OS since 95 [beta testing / events]. I still have a tower of Beta CD's from the ME days. 🙂
 
techs said:
Actually ME was more like the beta, beta, beta pre-testing, edition of Windoze 2000. Somehow it got leaked and Microsoft pretended it was a real operating system.
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Um, no. AFAIK, WinME had nothing to do with Windows 2000, which was NT based. I'm pretty sure WinME was still DOS based.

I used Windows 2000 for many, many years. Most stable version of Windows to date, IMO. XP was like 2000 with better software support.

Vista sucks ass. I need to try Win7....
 
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I didn't think ME was that bad. It was at least as good as all the other DOS based Windows. The big problem with it is it should have been NT based. Releasing another DOS version was stupid.
 
anyone remember that guy that multi-booted every version of windows on one machine?

that was so awesome.
 
Eli said:
Um, no. AFAIK, WinME had nothing to do with Windows 2000, which was NT based. I'm pretty sure WinME was still DOS based.

I used Windows 2000 for many, many years. Most stable version of Windows to date, IMO. XP was like 2000 with better software support.

Vista sucks ass. I need to try Win7....
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What made ME so bad is they introduced features in it that were really meant for the NT based future OS'es.
 
shortylickens said:
It was actually Win98 3rd edition, and it did add some nice features like System Restore and shit.
Of course, it was so messed up that you really needed the restore points but it was nice they made some progress. Luckily XP came out a short while later and seriously improved the computer as a home device.
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WFW 3.11 and Windows 95/98 were decent OSes.

I started on 3.1 when it came out coming from DOS and previously Apple/ProDOS back to 1983.

I did load one of the original 1 or 2's sometime in the 3.11 days...it was a terrible experience. I didn't get the windows approach and multi-tasking then when my Apple did things a lot better.

Now I couldn't survive with single task computing. I also tried that Microsoft Bob thing...that was enough to almost kill myself in the first 15 mins.
 
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