Microsoft “re-released” Windows 1.0 this week as part of a partnership with that Stranger Things show I have yet to binge on Netflix. While it’s fre ...

Growing up using a PC that ran on Windows 3.1, I don't think it ever occurred to me that there was a Windows 2.1. Or 1.0. That was just Windows, until Windows 95 came around a few years later. But ...

And hey, if this trip back in time has you nostalgic, you can try out Windows 1.0 at pcjs.org, which runs emulations of both 1.01 and the 1.0 Premiere Edition on its website.

Even though Windows 1.0 was widely lampooned as vaporware – we'll get back to that later – it did what it set out to do – make personal computing affordable for the masses.

A lot has changed since then, and when we try to look back, we come across a few fond remembrances. Called Windows Throwback theme, this Windows 1.0 theme reminds us of the ‘good old times’.

But Windows 1.0 was marketed as an upgrade for people already running MS-DOS — and, in fact, it ran on top of MS-DOS, so anybody who wanted Windows had to have MS-DOS installed first.

In November 1987, Windows 1.0 was succeeded by Windows 2.0. Microsoft supported Windows 1.0 for 16 years, the longest of all versions of Windows, until December 31, 2001. The latest version, Windows ...

It's a list containing names of the (at-the-time) Windows team, which happened to include Gabe Newell, whom you may recognize as the president of Valve. It's always fun to find Windows 11 Easter eggs.

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