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Postby Vyacheslav » 2010.11.20 (15:52)

November 20th, 1985... a revolution began. Here's a shot of most Windows versions.

Windows 1.01

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Windows 2.0

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Windows 3.x

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Windows NT 3.x

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Windows NT4

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Windows 95

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Windows 98

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Windows Millennium

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Windows 2000

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Windows XP

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Windows Server 2003

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Windows Vista

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Windows Server 2008

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Windows 7

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Postby mediate » 2010.11.20 (16:34)

Oh ... didn't even realize that Windows is that old ... really awesome. Raise my glass and happy 25th to windows. Favourite windows versions before XP are NT4 and 98SE. Still, awesome.

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Postby smartalco » 2010.11.20 (20:57)

oeuvre wrote:Windows 1.01

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Obviously the best version of windows. Just look at that color scheme!
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Postby Vyacheslav » 2010.11.20 (21:22)

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Everyone knows Hot Dog Stand was the best color scheme ever.
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Postby Tanner » 2010.11.22 (01:09)

Really cool thread. Props, Pavel.
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Postby Donfuy » 2010.11.22 (11:02)

I'm only sad the screenshot of windows 7 is the beta
which has the horrible start button
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Postby Vyacheslav » 2010.11.22 (15:16)

◉ LAZORTITS ◉ wrote:I'm only sad the screenshot of windows 7 is the beta
which has the horrible start button
Good call! Fixed.
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Postby Heartattack » 2010.11.23 (07:28)

A very nice thread. Way to go having free time, Pavel. Windows deserves your free time and junk.
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Postby Vyacheslav » 2010.11.23 (13:29)

Heartattack wrote:A very nice thread. Way to go having free time, Pavel. Windows deserves your free time and junk.
Thanks! Ask ortsz or anyone else whose been around for nearly as long as I have, I have spent *countless* hours installing/tinkering with all these OS'es. Lots of fun and you learn a lot about how to solve errors, how Windows works, how to optimize it for performance, etc.
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