Windows 1.01 thru 10 in pictures

[elecplus]

http://www.zdnet.com/pictures/windows-1 ... mark-os/1/
We have used all of these. I still have Windows 1.0 on a single 5.25" floppy diskette! My how the times have changed!

[SL89]

3.0 was the one with the nice logo wasn't it?

[vivalarevolución]

So all that improved since Windows 95 is the style?

My workplace was using XP until early this year. We finally upgraded to circa 2009 with Windows 7, which was a breath fo fresh air: Apparently, we were not the only one: http://www.cio.com/article/2944673/secu ... tml#slide9

[Touch_It]

I remember using 5.25 floppies in Kindergarten. Past that All I can really remember is using windows 95/98 through grade school and high school, with some ME mixed in (eww), and XP at the end. I do have fond memories of all the OS' I have used with the exception of ME. Never used Vista at home or work.

Thanks for sharing that.

[andrewjoy]

Ahh good old windows 2000, when patched up with the Unofficial SP5 that thing is a little beast , super stable.

XP to 7 migrations are fun right ! I have done quite a few of them , always problems with shitty old software designed for IE6.

[SL89]

we have replaced installed 800 Win7 units, 200+ XP units, 110 '98 units and 50 '95 units this year. Allllll to Win7. I am not looking forward to the Great Leap Forward that Win10 will bring...

[andrewjoy]

Privacy problems aside windows 10 is rock solid and you can fix all of that anyway so meh. However i see no major reason to update from 7 in corporate world it just works at least for now. It is quite stable , works on older hardware and can just about ( with messing around ) run legacy applications.

Going forward when 7 reaches EOL you should go straight to 10 ( or whatever we are up to then), any crappy old apps you still have should be running virtual anyway from a citrix server or something similar. Any crappy activex web apps should be replaced by pure HTML 5. If you do this then your future migrations will be stress free, the death of XP is the biggest move for IT departments in years , most would never have bothered with 2k it would have been right from NT 4 or 9x to XP , that would have been a big move.

IT departments need to start to move away from installer based custom apps to universal web apps or virtual apps running on a remote server , i am not a huge fan of SaaS but for a business running it thats fine. Your web apps also best work on a smartphone and tablet and mac and chromebook and windows or your going to get pissed off remote workers as they still have to sit there with there horrible large windows 7 fatbook to do 5 mins of work they could have done on there iPad.

If your a smaller business EVERYTHING should be going cloud or at least web app based, its simply not worth hosting your own stuff anymore , your prone to attack and your little 50meg symetric connection is going to keel over with any sort of DDoS not to mention amplified DDoS ( eg monlist and dns) you also have problems with staff knowledge expense of hardware and so on. Host what you need to ( for example good luck finding hosted mac servers) or if you need ultra fast raids for 4k video production and so on but web servers, email , application servers and domain servers? Dont even try , google apps office 365 amazon s3 are your friends give them the moneys to take away your stress !

[Halvar]

give them the moneys to take away your data !

FTFY

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