Windows 1.0 turns 30

Trip down memory lane

[tangor]

On November 20, 1985, Microsoft unveiled its graphical operating system.

Windows 1.0 offered a new way to navigate a PC, clicking a cursor on various boxes rather than scrolling through lines of text in order to navigate data and applications. While arguably less efficient than a command line, the graphical user interface (GUI) was more intuitive and easier for novice users to manage.

[theregister.co.uk...]

Held on to my OS2 a bit longer, but eventually the client base for Windows go in the way. (sigh)

Been that way ever since.

[not2easy]

It was cute. Gorilla throwing bananas, heh! Just what the office needed.

[Hoople]

1.0 was....meh!

Windows 2.15 386 now that one rocked!

[tangor]

Can't recall how many offices/enterprise (back then) I set up on Novell servers (1980s) and then shifted to smaller companies running Win 3.11 for Workgroups. Good living made back then as "networking" was still a mystery to most. :)

Then hardware got cheap and plug and play changed the landscape. One moves on, of course. One moves on.