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Windows 1.0: The flop that created an empire
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Windows 1.0: The flop that created an empire
"Two years later than planned, Microsoft's new graphical operating system went on sale November 20, 1985. It wasn't worth the wait. But a bigger story was soon to unfold."
Reminds me of the latest W8/W8.1/Surface drama to be honest.
"Two years later than planned, Microsoft's new graphical operating system went on sale November 20, 1985. It wasn't worth the wait. But a bigger story was soon to unfold."
Reminds me of the latest W8/W8.1/Surface drama to be honest.
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Almost 30 years later and Balmer is still as hyper as back then
Yep One thing I don't get about it though - why was Windows 1.0 not available in Nebraska?
http://www.quora.com/Microsoft-History/Why-did-Steve-Ballmer-say-except-in-Nebraska-at-the-end-of-the-Windows-1-0-ad
I was very late in the computing world with XP being my first OS.
I know. It has all the charisma of a wet fish. At least the Mac OS back then (and even now!) had a bit of life to it.
Probably due to being very late into the world itself
Wrong assumption.
Sure about that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Macintosh_Desktop.png
30MB was a lot. I think XT I used as my first PC had 20MB and you could fit _everything_ on it
In the age of ASCII art that was magic.
Well at least it had decent graphics, which for 1984/85 was very impressive I watch a Youtube video series called OSFirstTimer. It's done by an Australian who gets his mother (who uses Windows XP) to try out all sorts of different OSes, new and old. He got her to try out Windows 1.0 and she said it looked like it was still booting up Check it out. It's at youtube.com/user/osfirsttimer.
I suppose.
Well if I had been around in the 80s I would probably have used the Macintosh or some other OS rather than Windows 1.0. Not much has changed now. I prefer my Macs to anything running Windows 8 Of course running Windows on a Mac doesn't count and it's handy to have a Windows partition/VM
Workbench. :cool:
Of course it does. It's still Windows.
Yes but it runs on Apple hardware. Of course if you use Parallels or VMWare Fusion to run it Windows is essentially just another Mac program What I don't get is people who spend over £1000 on a Mac and wipe it and install Windows on it because they're too lazy to learn the Mac system. Why spend all that money on a Mac just to run Windows on it? :rolleyes: Dual boot I can understand because it's useful to have it for games or other Windows-only software someone might need for work, but I don't understand having only Windows installed on a shiny Mac. It's a form of blasphemy IMO.
Imo, Digital Research's GEM was much superior on the PC, even after it was forced to strip down it's GUI due to being sued by Apple.
It wasn't until Windows 3.0 where Microsoft finally started to get their act together.
So it's not Windows you hate, it's just hardware that hasn't been made by Apple that you hate then?
Well I still hate Windows Vista (who doesn't?) and I think Windows 8 is a steaming pile of dung, but Windows 7 is strangely usable sometimes. It's the best OS for gaming still As for the hardware, there's no denying that Apple hardware isn't quality. It's certainly better than some pile of dung from PC World. The more expensive Windows laptops are probably of similar quality to a Mac but if you pay nearly £1000 for a Windows laptop you're better off getting a Mac and dual booting it. It works out cheaper and you can use OSX as well.