Happy Birthday Windows! 21 today!
20-11-2006, 13:56
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Happy Birthday Windows! 21 today!
Yep, Windows is 21.. Windows 1.0 was launched on 20th November 1985. Some two years late (sound familiar?) and it was patched two weeks after release (again, sound familiar?)
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20-11-2006, 13:58
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Re: Happy Birthday Windows! 21 today!
woohooo happy birthday to the much derided ,but without it we wouldnt all have a pc or whatever in the home. Many happy returns 
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20-11-2006, 21:07
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Re: Happy Birthday Windows! 21 today!
Ahhh.... the O.S. we get mad at when it goes wrong but can't live without.
Happy Birthday
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20-11-2006, 21:22
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Re: Happy Birthday Windows! 21 today!
blimey, first I saw was Windows 2.0 on an Amstrad 286.
- after DOS, the formatting options in programs like 'write', wrt to typefaces etc was pretty cool, at the time, even though it was hard to find printers that could keep up...
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20-11-2006, 21:40
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Re: Happy Birthday Windows! 21 today!
All the best! My first experience of MS Windows was version 3.1 some 13 years ago... how time flies! 
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20-11-2006, 22:09
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Re: Happy Birthday Windows! 21 today!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodger444
All the best! My first experience of MS Windows was version 3.1 some 13 years ago... how time flies! |
then 'Windows 3.1 for Workgroups' - nostalgia isn't what it used to be  
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20-11-2006, 22:11
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Re: Happy Birthday Windows! 21 today!
My first use was Windows 95 in 1999. Happy Birthday Windows!
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20-11-2006, 22:37
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Re: Happy Birthday Windows! 21 today!
Windows 95 in 1996. Although in 1997 I did get my own Windows 3.1 machine, aged 7, which I thought was wonderful! I can't actually remember the spec of it, I'm sure it's still somewhere (last time I checked, it was definitely still going strong with Workgroups 3.11 on it).
Happy birthday to Windows. Anyone have a Windows 1.0 machine still laying around somewhere?
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21-11-2006, 02:16
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Re: Happy Birthday Windows! 21 today!
21 birthday bumps...... 
Get back in line ! : I'm first in the queue with my size 11 stompers.
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