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[pepsi_junkie]

I think MS Windows didn’t really catch on in a big way until Windows 3.0 as I recall. That was the “no going back” moment.

[Tuketu]

WIKI “Windows 1.0 is a 16-bit graphical operating environment that was released on 20 November 1985[1]. It was Microsoft’s first attempt to implement a multi-tasking graphical user interface-based operating environment on the PC platform. Windows 1.0 was the first version of Windows launched. It was succeeded by Windows 2.0.”

As I recall we were just off CPM and messing with DOS 2.0 and the problem with windows, DOS etc at that point were the COST and MONOCHROME monitors. I an sure for $10Gs you could have had Windows with a color monitor and a 30 MEG, not GIG, Hard drive. Hence the name Win-doze

[CynicalBear]

Windows 1.0 was no big deal. It was a feeble attempt to copy Mac. Not until Windows 3.0 did it get some legs.

[ccmay]

I used it. Garbage then, garbage now.

[martin_fierro]

Marty's first 'pooter (circa 1986)

Sometimes the CRT monitor's internal magnet interfered with the 5.25" floppy disk drives. So one had to separate the two with a stack of phone books.

[brityank]

Windows (n): 32 bit extension and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprossessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. ~ EmptyV

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[Defiant]

I knew how to use Windows, but it was so crappy, I mainly used Macs until 1999. After that (Windows 98SE), the OS was bearable, but only in part because Mac stagnated for a few years there. I was one of the few lawyers who ran a law office on Macs--much of the time on a Mac 165c laptop using 2 monitors, syquest drives, the whole shebang. I learned how to use Windows and then Windows 95 when it came out, because some programs required it, but they were horrible. F12 this, F8 that.

I had PCs exclusively until 2007. Now I use both, depending on the task.

The anniversary of Windows is bittersweet. Lots of wasted hours, reboots, blue screens. Windows 7 is very good, though. They finally got there.