The best part about working at Microsoft is that you have access to just about every software ever written by Microsoft - All licensed for you to install and see and try out. I could get my hands on the program that started it all - Windows 1.01 - Here's a screen shot of Windows 1.01 running inside a Virtual PC, the VPC is running with 4MB of RAM :-)
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[Click for Windows 1.01 Image]
Windows 1.01 wouldn't even detect my mouse - I wonder if the mouse was even supported then - maybe it was, maybe it wasn't - I’m not quite sure.
Here Windows 2.03 - now this one detected my mouse pretty well - again running on a VPC with 4 MB RAM.
[Click for Windows 2.03 Image]
Finally the closest to what most of us have ever seen - Windows 3.01,nah not Windows 3.1 or 3.11, this is 3.01. But a more familiar windows, again running on a VPC with 4MB RAM :-)
[Click for Windows 3.01 Image]
Pretty nostalgic stuff - touchy....
Jeelz