It Was Forty Years Ago When Microsoft Introduced Windows, Joining a New Wave of Graphical User Interface-Based Operating Systems

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Forty years ago, Microsoft joined the GUI party, which included rivals Apple, Atari, and Commodore, by offering Windows 1.0. It was the 1980s, and the console crash had just happened, but PCs had begun the move to the 16-bit era, ushering in new graphics and processor capabilities. At this point, there’d been multiple generations of […]

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[Brian_B]

 

[Brian_B]

I admit to watching that mostly just to watch her run down the isle with her hammer.

 

[Elf_Boy]

And I own (owned if I cant find the box/license I suppose) most of those versions. Starting with 3.1.

 

[Grimlakin]

Yea infused most but base windows 8. Never touched that tile hell.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

I basically went from Atari DOS (1>2>3>3.5) to MS-DOS, and then to Windows 95, since I stopped using PCs for a bit in between, and have used almost every version since. The two I most loathed were Vista and 8, but I mainly upgraded to them for DX API stuff and just worked through any issues I had with them. Ten had some rough patches here and there, but given how long it was around, I think it did okay overall.