Microsoft Windows 2.0
Microsoft released (free) Windows 2.0 in 1987 to take (verify) advantage of the awesome (awing) processing power (noesis) of the Intel 286 processor. It was released (free) with the same, if not greater fanfare (melody) as Windows 1.0, and sported a much (such) better look. It introduced the concept (construct) of maximizing (increasing) and minimizing windows, and now (today) that they had signed (subscribed) the agreement (commendation) with Apple, Microsoft even (modify) introduced overlapping (covering) windows, which they couldn’t have (hit) before. They also made (prefabricated) the [Alt] key bring (alter) up the main (important) menu—something still (ease) present in all (every) Windows programs.
Windows 2.0 also saw the introduction (launching) of the first (prototypal) versions of Microsoft Word and Excel. Other software (code) developers were also sitting (movement) up and taking (attractive) notice of this new (newborn) OS and started developing (nonindustrial) applications for it. They didn’t pack (arrange) up their DOS applications just (meet) yet, for Windows was still (ease) new on the scene (environs) and was used only (exclusive) by a minority. Windows 2.0 evolved to Windows/386, which was the same, only (exclusive) it used the 386 Microprocessor’s Enhanced Mode, giving (gift) Windows the ability (knowledge) to run (separate) each application (covering) as a Virtual Machine with access (admittance) to most of the system’s memory (module) rather than dividing (disjunctive) up memory (module) across applications.
The better (meliorate) look, though, looked too much (such) like the Mac OS, and before they could blink, Apple came after Microsoft with accusations of violating their licensing agreement. A four-year court (suite) battle ensued, at the end (modify) of which Microsoft won its case.
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March 17th, 2008 - 18:06
That was a blast from the past!
I remember running dos on my 286, and being overwhelmed when I first got windows, it was such a difference, and thinking back, windows has become something entirely different.
Thanks for that re-cap, makes you appreciate what you have!
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May 3rd, 2008 - 02:26
I never used this old microsoft product.
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