![]() ![]() Under the hood, Windows 3.0 also had improved memory management for newer processors. Other big updates included scientific calculator support in the Calculator app, Paint becoming the improved Paintbrush app, and the addition of the all-time classic game Solitaire. the MS-DOS Executive, the file manager used until that point, was replaced with the Program Manager, the File Manager, and Task List. But it also included some big new features. While it still worked similarly in most ways, it looked very different, replacing the flat look with more of 3D feel to the UI elements. The next step in Windows version history was Windows 3.0, launched in May 1990, and it featured a significant redesign of the user interface. Windows 2.1 was launched just six months after Windows 2.0, and it was the first version of Windows to require a hard disk drive. ![]() Microsoft itself made the first versions of Word and Excel for Windows in 1989, which was a big deal. Many of the included apps in Windows 2.0 were the same as in Windows 1.0, but Windows 2.0 got more application support later on. Windows 2.1 with multiple apps in overlapping windows | Image via Wikipedia Instead, apps were tiled, and could only be displayed next to each other. You could open apps in windows, even though they they couldn’t overlap, as the concept of overlapping windows wasn’t implemented right away. The initial release of Windows was – hold on to your seats – Windows 1.0, released in November 1985, and it gave users more than a text-based interface to interact with their PCs. While we know Windows as its own operating system today, it actually started as more of a GUI built on top of Microsoft’s Disk Operating System, or MS-DOS. ![]() So, it’s true, I haven’t been involved in the Windows world for as long as many others, but it’s still always interesting to look back at where things started. That came many years later, and I’d say I truly started paying attention to new Windows releases around the time Windows 8.1 had just come out. ![]() My first experience with a computer was with Windows XP, and I wasn’t always a tech aficionado. I will admit right off the bat – I have not lived through all the major releases of Windows. ![]()
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