My understanding was that Windows 1.0 and 2.0 were pretty much failures. It
wasn't until Windows 3.1 that Windows really took off. When most people
think of their first version of Windows in the late 80's, they're thinking
of Windows 3.1.

--
Christopher (AKA CJ)
Chaltain at Gmail

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> Subject: [VICUG-L] 20 November, 1985.
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> Greetings,
> 
> On BBC Radio 4's News Briefing for today, I learnt, it was on this day in
1985,
> MicroSoft released it's very first version of the Windows operating
system,
> entitled Windows Version 1.0.
> 
> I would be very interested to learn if, possibly, even after all this
time, anybody
> has a machine with Windows V1.0 running?  I would be interested to lern of
> experiences of W V1.0, even as a sighted person.
> 
> 
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