On November 20, 1985, the world of personal computing witnessed a transformative moment when Microsoft officially unveiled Windows 1.0. This pioneering operating system marked Microsoft's first serious foray into graphical user interfaces (GUIs)—a radical departure from the command-line...
On November 10, 1983, a seismic event in the history of personal computing unfolded under the auspices of the software giant Microsoft. The company unveiled its plans for what would become Windows 1.0, a product aimed at revolutionizing the user experience on IBM PCs with a graphical user...
A Walk Through Windows History To appreciate the "best" version today, it's essential to unpack the historical context of Windows itself. Microsoft launched Windows 1.0 in 1985, a product that provided a graphical user interface on top of MS-DOS. With certain limitations, it set the groundwork...
When I got my first PC it was a Hewlett Packard 486DX-66 running Windows 3.11. I have no recollection of ever having used Windows 1.0-3.0 as the computers we used at school were BBC Micros, so my home PC was my first Windows experience. This video is therefore both informative and a visual...
An anonymous reader writes "YouTube user Andrew Tait has uploaded a video titled Chain of Fools: Upgrading through every version of Windows. Tait starts with MS DOS 5.0 running Windows 1.0 and keeps upgrading the operating system until he reaches Windows 7, taking note of the changes to system...
The Windows install and upgrade process isn’t normally something users get nostalgic over – in fact, more often it’s an anxiety-provoking experience that most would rather avoid – but for one man it’s an opportunity to track Microsoft’s OS progress over the past 25 years. Andrew Tait started out...