In honor of Microsoft's 50th anniversary, we've ranked the best Windows consumer operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped, in order from worst to best.

"These were dual floppy disk computers (possible Tandy 1000s?) running either Windows 1.0 or CP/M," he told On Call. Files written under one OS could not be read when using the other. The supplier of ...

About/Description: Windows 2.0 is a 16-bit operating environment from Microsoft released on December 9, 1987, as a successor to Windows 1.0. Windows 2.0, 2.01, and 2.03 are shells for the MS-DOS ...

On this day in 1985, Microsoft unveiled its leap into the graphical user interface world with Windows 1.0, a piece of software that would change the personal computing world forever. Well, almost. As ...

Windows 3.1 would just be a big content update for the operating system, but in the ’90s, this important release had its own box and stack of floppy disks for installation.

Called Windows Throwback theme, this Windows 1.0 theme reminds us of the ‘good old times’. 1985 was the year when Microsoft released its first graphical user interface, ...

And while it is possible to install Windows 1.0x from floppy images in DOSBox-X, the disk-swap process for this is rather tedious for substantial number of disks. As such it is recommended to make a ...

Or borrow a Windows 95 setup CD and “build” a set of 10-20 floppies with a working copy of it (reformat to 1,6-1,7MiB DMF, copy, create boot floppy). Used them to install Win95 on a Toshiba ...

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