Hide the women and children: It's the first version of Windows!
By Jon Brodkin
Remember your first time firing up Windows 1.0 and playing some Reversi? I don't, since I was six years old and cruising through Montezuma's Revenge and Oregon Trail on an Apple II at the time. Chances are good you don't remember Windows 1.0, either. It took a few versions for Bill Gates' favorite software to really take off. I recently used Windows 1.0 for the first time, after downloading an old copy and installing it in a virtual machine on my Windows 7 PC. Here are the results.
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