Windows 1.0

Windows 1.0 was the first attempt at graphic operating system of Microsoft. Based on MS-DOS, it was to provide an graphical interface to applications which developed more and more: image processing, calculations, graphs, management of documentation,…

Description

By taking again elements of its predecessor LISA (windows, buttons), this first grinding of Windows in black and white (at the origin) then colors (version 1.01) were one of the greatest failures of Microsoft. Slowing down up to 10 times the execution of the tasks, not allowing (like DOS) of launching only one application at the same time, of many gaps of programming caused many bugs, making the software almost unusable.

Developing a format of achievable clean, it was illustrated above all by the principle of the drivers (pilot), which made it possible a program to use a peripheral, independently of the machine concerned.

Version 1.0 was announced by Microsoft in November 1983, which seemed, two years before the exit of the software, to develop a controversy according to which Windows would be abandoned. In 1985, the software is finally officially distributed, but its weak success is limited to the only United States; and the version 1.02 had to be awaited (in 1986) to see the first international versions.

Like Windows 95, this version of Windows had a bar of the tasks (in green), which could not be covered by the windows.

One of the other reasons which would have led Windows to the failure was its poor management of the windows. They did not have a button of closing (it was necessary to pass by a menu) and they could not be superimposed (to be only juxtaposed). This limitation resulted from an agreement of copyright with Apple, Inc..

History

The first left version is the 1.0 but it was withdrawn because of an error, it is thus the version 1.01 that one can regard as first version. There are also experimental versions which left, like 0.9 beta.

The version 1.02 left in May 1986 to make a " version internationale".

The version 1.03 left in August 1986, only with the the United States and including the configurations of European keyboards, additional and printing screens.

The version 1.04 left in April 1987, adding the support of screens VGA, compatibility with ports PS/2 as well as a software of pictorial display.

Windows 1.0 X was replaced in November 1987 by Windows 2.0

Details

The basic configuration to carry out Windows 1 is MS-DOS 2.0,256KB RAM and two disk drives or an hard drive.

Windows 1.0 contained Calculatrice, Calendrier, Cardfile, Presse-papiers, Horloge, Control panel, Bloc-notes, Paint, Reversi, Terminal, Write, and the Interpréteur of orders.

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External bonds

(in) Captures of screen under Windows 1.01

Be-X-old: Windows 1.0 Simple: Windows 1.0

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