Coding Horror: 2005: Twenty years of Windows

January 01, 2005

2005: Twenty years of Windows

2005 marks the 20th anniversary of Windows 1.0:

Windows 1.0 screenshot

The first version of Windows I actually used was Windows 3.0. Coming from an Amiga background, I was unimpressed. It wasn't until Windows 3.1 and Windows For Workgroups 3.11 that I actually started to believe Microsoft had something worth using.

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What a coincidence! My first Windows was 3.1 and I was coming from Amiga background. I was a bit strange I guess because my first computer was not a Commodore 64 but Sinclair ZX Spectrum ;)

Drazen Dotlic on January 2, 2005 06:28 AM

Microsoft Releases Box Set of Rarities and Oldies

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/09/microsoft_box_set.html?from=rss

Funny, but I'd actually buy something like this. :P

Jeff Atwood on September 11, 2005 05:52 PM

Here's a massive, in-depth PC Magazine overview of the last 20 years of Windows:

http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1874,1861640,00.asp

Jeff Atwood on November 12, 2005 10:03 PM

Microsoft ACTUALLY RELEASED A REAL BOX SET OF WINDOWS RARITIES AND OLDIES.. in Japan!

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000487068548/

Jeff Atwood on November 20, 2005 04:05 AM

More 20 year factoids about Windows:

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2005/11/20/happy-birthday-windows/

Jeff Atwood on November 23, 2005 03:25 PM