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Happy 30th Birthday, Windows!

Posted by timothy on from the and-all-I've-done-for-want-of-wit dept.

v3rgEz writes: And what a ride it's been. Today marks the 30th anniversary since the debut of Windows 1.01, the first commercial release of Windows. At the time, it was derided as being slow, buggy, and clunky, but since then ... Well, it looks a lot better. .The Verge has a pictorial history of Windows through the years. What's your fondest memory of Bill Gates Blue Screen-of-death that could?

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  1. Re:This is not something to commemorate. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And yet has become the most used, most useful operating system in the world. Shut up.

  2. Re:Not most used, sorry by sexconker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anyone who calls a phone or tablet a "general computing device" in an effort to lump them in with actual PCs is a fucking tool seeking to sell data and analysis to a bunch of MBAs.

    Oh, you DID say it was Gartner, carry on then.

  3. Don't diss it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Windows has a long and sordid history, with predatory business practices at the front of our minds, and there have been shithouse editions of Windows. But if I met the engineers and others who pulled together Windows 95, Windows XP or Windows 7 I would shake their hands as vigorously as I would those of a Linux kernel maintainer.

  4. The Ribbon is functionally limited by CrashNBrn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While the Ribbon interface is somewhat functional, it is limited compared to what it is replacing.
    * The Ribbon interface replaces both toolbars and drop-down menus.
    ----> The Ribbon interface is not as complete as the drop-down menu's.
    ----> The Ribbon interface is basically not customizable.
    ----> The Ribbon interface takes up more space than multiple toolbars and a menu-bar.
    ----> The Ribbon interface is limited to one "topic" available to use at any given time,
    whereas:
    ---> Toolbars could have multiple different toolbars on-screen at any given time.
    ---> Toolbars could be docked to different locations on the window: sides, top, bottom. ---> Toolbars could be UNdocked, and displayed outside of a given window.