Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0—How do they look today?

Today Microsoft Windows is installed on about 75% of personal computers in the world. But how did it begin? Let’s test the first versions of Microsoft Windows and figure out, how it works.

Before we get started, it’s helpful to remember the background. About 50 years ago computers had the size of the fridge and the price of a sports car. Later the hardware became smaller, cheaper, and more powerful, and in 1974 the first…