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Windows (classic) Superseded

Windows (classic)
KindOperating system
Appeared1985
StatusSuperseded
CreatorMicrosoft
FamilyWindows
Platformx86
Also known asWindows 1.0–9x
Sourcewww.microsoft.com ↗

The DOS-graphics-shell dynasty — 1.0's tiled windows to 95's taskbar to ME's curtain call; absorbed into the NT line it always leaned on.

Descended from MS-DOS
Succeeded by Windows NT / Windows
Ran on IBM PC
Created by Microsoft
Predecessors MS-DOS

Windows 1.0 (1985) was a DOS shell, not an OS — tiled windows, cooperative multitasking, mouse required. It sold poorly; Windows 3.0 (1990) sold ten million. Windows 95 merged DOS+Windows into the consumer line; Windows ME (2000) ended it.\n\nThe DOS-based line was dead by 2000, replaced by the NT kernel — but 'Windows' as a product name never stopped.

Sources

  1. microsoft.com/windows
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows