windows-1.0

This can be nostalgic to many geeks who have been using Microsoft’s Windows operating system for a long time now. Andrew Tait must be appreciated for taking pain to install every version of Windows OS from 1.0 to 7 inside a VMWare instance, and thereby giving us an overview of how Windows has changed over the years. And all that in just 9 minutes!

For someone who started off with Windows 95, getting to see DOS 5.0 and Windows 1.0 was a treat. The whole procedure took 3 days for Andrew to complete. It is interesting to see how DOS versions of Doom 2 and Monkey Island still works on Windows 7 after all these years!


This fascinating experiment shows how much effort Microsoft puts into ensuring legacy compatibility. It’s not all about BSOD you see!

[via]Gizmo

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Microsoft Such a Master In OS field , it's change the computer world ,and windows 7 is the best OS i ever Use , i got the news windows 8 will be in market in 2012 , I m Seriously waiting for this

interesting post about the history of OS ... IT has emerged much greater than other engg fields

Microsoft Such a Master In OS field , it's change the computer world ,and windows 7 is the best OS i ever Use , i got the news windows 8 will be in market in 2012 , I m Seriously waiting for this

Posting about the history is good. Keep up the good work guys. I used window 7 application and it's very pretty to use. You make all your application good in every users interface. I appreciate your good work.

interesting post about the history of OS ... IT has emerged much greater than other engg fields

A long history of crappy programming and ripping off customers. Good work, Microsoft!

It was interesting to see the older versions of windows after so long. Microsoft's legacy compatibility is really appreciable.

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