Posted on 04/27/2024 3:10:42 PM PDT by Signalman
These are the most popular computer operating systems from 1985 to 2024, based on market share. The latest numbers from 2003 on are readily available from Wikipedia and Statcounter. The first half of the video required a bit more research, which entailed finding and converting sales figures into market share. These numbers may be different based on what OSes are included in the stats, this is why different videos have slightly different numbers.
I started with Apple 11e in 1984. Opened a whole new forever magical world for me!😃
“I’ll always have memories about Windows XP.”
I have an XP VM I still use.
I’m not smart about everything that’s ‘under the hood’ in today’s computing. But I’ve had to use computers for 40 years in my work, and I appreciate stable, reliable things, and producers who actually respect their users instead of taking them for granted. Here’s the reason we left MS, from Wiki:
“In September 2015, it was reported that Microsoft was triggering automatic downloads of Windows 10 installation files on all compatible Windows 7 or 8.1 systems configured to automatically download and install updates, regardless of whether or not they had specifically requested the upgrade. Microsoft officially confirmed the change, claiming it was “an industry practice that reduces the time for installation and ensures device readiness.” This move was criticized by users with data caps or devices with low storage capacity, as resources were consumed by the automatic downloads of up to 6 GB of data. Other critics argued that Microsoft should not have triggered any downloading of Windows 10 installation files without user consent.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10#Distribution_practices
Well, AmigaOS was released on the Amiga 1000 in 1985. A fully preemptive multitasking OS with a mouse/windowing GUI. Being able to display 4096 colors on screen with graphics, audio, and IO coprocessors made it a giant leap at the time. Was never huge in the States though.
Unix, then MS-DOS, then each Windows version from Windows 95 to Windows 10 (except for NT).
That’s a really well done graphic video.
The little Penguin that could keeps chugging along.
“I thought WIndows 7 was the most user-friendly windows.”
I use Family Tree Maker which only runs on Windows or Macs, so I have Windows 7 running in Virtual Box on my Linux Desktop (Mint Cinnamon Edition).
Yep, running Windows in a Window on Linux.
Thought to be a game machine by USA shoppers. But could do anything if programmed. Like word processing, or desktop video, or desktop publishing. The preemptive multitasking, 8 bit stereo sound(good for the time), up to 8 different whole screens displayed (not just a window) at different resolutions, co-processing chips(sound/graphics) and NTSC video output was very advanced for the time for a home computer for 1985.
The stuff that sold pc was off the shelf components, and free OS. (Ms-Dos), and early business programs (visi-calc),...Apple was very user friendly, nice graphics (2 color) and comparatively elegant compared to the PC but tooooo propietary IMHO
If Commodore had a clue, things could have been very different. I loved that machine.
Keypunch cards, CRT monitors, big floppy disks, perforated printer paper, mainframe was in either Tallahassee or Gainesville, hours away from my community college.
Aside from my Texas Instrument 99, our first big computer was an Amiga which seemed to be a cross between Windows and Apple, before Apple showed up. We really liked Amiga, very user-friendly for my father and I, two non-tech users.
Ping
OS/2, OS/2 Warp, eComStation and now Arca Noae.
Still got one running on my home network. In fact, I use it as a hub to connect via RDP to three other Windows machines (one of which is a remote server via the internet).
I even connect to it remotely via the internet for screen share sessions.
So far, so good!
Short summary: MS/DOS overtakes Unix after a few months, and then after leading for a few years, it’s Windows Whatever for the rest of time.
Of all the programs in that time period I think Windows XP was the best and easiest to use of Microsoft’s OS programs. Everything since then has just gotten worse and three years ago I said enough and went to an Apple MacBook Air and will never go back to Windows.
Mostly in order...
8080 processor machine language - front panel switches
Commodore VIC20
MSDOS 3.3, then 5
VMS at work. (I miss the VAX)
Windows 3.3 at work, up to whatever was current in 2020 at work. NT was in there somewhere.
OS/2, but it never took off.
Linux. Still use it in in the Raspberry PI4. A little too Wild West for me otherwise.
FreeBSD for the last twenty-five years or so work and home. Still using it.
Dabbled in QNX off and on out of curiosity. The knowledge came in handy on the job a few times. That’s the one you run nukes on. Start it up and walk away for twenty years.
Not an OS, but did a fair amount of coding and work using the Borland Turbo C environment.
Machines running the iRMX RTOS run for years, but it’s like a carrot in a fruit basket.
I have no idea what you mean :-)
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