Your first MS Windows version

[Chiko2008]

What was the first version of MS Windows that you used?

Ubuntu (http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu/)

[paul101]

windows 95...

[Chiko2008]

The first version of MS windows that I used was Windows 3.11.
No crashes, no blue screens, beaultiful! :)

Ubuntu (http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu/)

[rickyjones]

My first computer ran Windows 95. Then 98. Then 98SE. Then Windows ME. Then a new(ish) computer with Windows ME. Then XP. Now a new computer with Vista.

Sincerely,
Richard

[vishzilla]

Win95. Got my first BSOD in one month, very troublesome OS

[sayakb]

I used Win 3.0, then straight 3.11, then 95, 98se, 2000, xp, vista :(
XP was the best one..

[fela]

I have never even touched a computer with a native* installation of any version of windows inside my own house**. Why isn't there a poll option?
However, i have a virtual machine configured with XP in my Linux box right now. (only for running programs that aren't linux native, like Flash and Adobe Audition)

*i.e. not in a virtual machine
**apart from two occasions. Both were when i inherited a computer with windows on it. I instantly wiped them and replaced them with Linux.

[Chiko2008]

I have never even touched a computer with a native* installation of any version of windows inside my own house**. Why isn't there a poll option?
However, i have a virtual machine configured with XP in my Linux box right now. (only for running programs that aren't linux native, like Flash and Adobe Audition)

*i.e. not in a virtual machine
**apart from two occasions. Both were when i inherited a computer with windows on it. I instantly wiped them and replaced them with Linux.

Because the pool is about "Your first MS Windows version" :)

Ubuntu (http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu/)

[FuturePilot]

Windows 95

[Battie]

I have fond memories of Windows 3.1. We kept that box running for a long time, too. It was working the day we got rid of it (I'd hazard a guess that it was at least ten years old at that point), and we only did because we didn't have room for it anymore.

[MemoryDump]

windows 3.0.. before they had multi-tasking.. it was awful.. I still have nightmares

[NightwishFan]

Windows 98.

[Chame_Wizard]

Windows 98 SE:lolflag:

[rev7]

I was a long-time MS-DOS user. I tried to get along with Windows 3.1, but hardware drivers back then were largely geared towards DOS. I made the switch to Mac long before MS introduced Plug-and-Play. Even though it was dicey at first, PnP eventually brought some parity for MS to the Mac's ease of installation and use for hardware components.

Linux still has some catching up to do, but our community has different challenges and wildly different advantages.

Cheers!

[karellen]

Windows 98, back in 1998...

[syms]

windows 95. sometimes when i install win 95 on my old pentium im going to cry (lol!), so many emotions and memories :redface:

[lswest]

Windows 95...however, that box has been upped to Xubuntu 6.06.1 LTS server a while back (well, it was the Ubuntu server, and i decided to use xfce for those rare occasions where i needed a GUI, and to test it). But yeah, i still have the box it was on :P my first ever computer was an Apple from like 1990? but yeah, that's another story all together (still in existence too btw)

[jgrabham]

The first version of MS windows that I used was Windows 3.11.
No crashes, no blue screens, beaultiful! :)

Unless you pressed ctrl+alt+delete...

And yes, win 3.11 for me too, but as I was born in 92, I have an excuse as to why I didn't use anything prior to that XD

[Medieval_Creations]

Windows 3.11.

I miss the good old days when I had a choice to launch Windows if I wanted and ran everything from command line.

Must be a contributing factor as to why I now run Linux. :lolflag:

[jgrabham]

windows 3.0.. before they had multi-tasking.. it was awful.. I still have nightmares

I thought there was multitasking since win386??? :confused:

[Ensamvarg]

First version of Windows I used was DOS/Windows 3.1. It wasn't half bad really. My Auntie had it on her old machine a good 12 years ago or so. Whenever I wanted to make paper aeroplanes she'd fire up publisher and print me off a template. I couldn't access any games through windows 3.1 so I had to reboot and type in the DOS commands. Those games were awesome. Anyone played Monster Bash?

After that I used 95 for a while with a 56k modem that only ever connected at 12.2kbps. Then 98 to play Diablo II: LoD. Then good old XP! That is a good OS. I now have Vista but I hate it. If I disable anything then Windows blows up in your face. "YOU HAVEN'T GOT EVERYTHING RUNNING THAT WINDOWS WANTS YOU TO!" Yeah cos I don't want to have to allow things every time I click on a programme. When I click, I want! I'd switch back to XP but it takes so long to get it all back up and running. With Ubuntu it's click and go!

[gameryoshi600]

windows 2000 it was pretty good for me

[SunnyRabbiera]

Windows 95, eh it was alright.
ME was the worst...

[seanc7]

First one was Win 3.1 on DOS 6.0 on a 486 SX-25. Then Win 3.11 on DOS 6.22, back when OS upgrades were cheap.

After that, it was a Win 95.

Then a new Pentium 233 with Win 98, then 98SE.

Then Win2000, then XP. My parents have a computer with ME (blech) and a new one with Vista (double blech).

I used NT at work.

So I've had experience with every version except for 3.0 and the previous ones 2.0 and 1.0, which I've only seen pictures of.

[Living2007]

For me, it was Windows 98. It was standard when we bought our first PC.

My first "Personal" PC had 3.1 for Workgroups on it. Then came XP.

[Chiko2008]

I already told that my first was Win 3.11, but the worst was indeed Me.

Ubuntu (http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu/)

[Medieval_Creations]

I already told that my first was Win 3.11, but the worst was indeed Me.

Worst was definitely ME, with 95 close behind.

[Chiko2008]

Worst was definitely ME, with 95 close behind.

I agree!

Ubuntu (http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu/)

[Bungo Pony]

Win3.1 was great. You actually had the OPTION of running Windows or DOS.

I remember briefly trying out Win3.0 and it was awful. Everytime you clicked on a folder in File Manager, it would open a new window for it. It didn't take long to have 20 windows open on your desktop, and then you'd have to close them all.

But yeah, Win3.1 and 95 are my fondest Windows memories. The worst was probably WinME.

[Chiko2008]

It didn't take long to have 20 windows open on your desktop, and then you'd have to close them all.


Yeah... That was sux :(
The best part was type win on DOS to start the Windows. :lolflag:

Ubuntu (http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu/)

[CrazyArcher]

My first OS to use was MS-DOS with NC... As for Win, it was 3.11. However, all those machines were at my school, and I didn'thave my own. As for my own computers, the first one was a 486-based IBM ThinkPad with mighty 8MB of RAM, 200MB HDD and Win95... The mouse was connected to a COM port. Then it died and I've got a Win2000-running machine. Since then it was upgraded to the point that the only parts remainging from it are CD-ROM, 20GB HDD (used as secondary) and probably the power supply. Now I'm happily running XP on it.

[Dark Dragoon]

The first version of Windows I used, was version 2.1 on my parents PC. I think I've still got the installation disks and manuals somewhere.

Since then on my home computers I've gone from 3.11 > 95 > 98 > 98SE > XP > Vista Business (less than a week before removal) > 2003 Enterprise

My favourite would probably be either 3.11 or XP, my least favourite would be Vista though I did manage to avoid ME.

I suddenly have the urge to try and install Windows 2.1 in a virtual machine.

[namegame]

My first experience with Microsoft came with 3.11. I believe I was around the age of 5 at the time, it was my family's first computer. Unfortunately, I had limited experience with it, mostly games, such as solitaire.

[CrazyArcher]

CorelDraw under 3.11 was the thing, mate! ;)

[erlyrisa]

The first version of Windows I used, was version 2.1 on my parents PC. I think I've still got the installation disks and manuals somewhere.

Since then on my home computers I've gone from 3.11 > 95 > 98 > 98SE > XP > Vista Business (less than a week before removal) > 2003 Enterprise

My favourite would probably be either 3.11 or XP, my least favourite would be Vista though I did manage to avoid ME.

I suddenly have the urge to try and install Windows 2.1 in a virtual machine.

Does your copy still work (my floppies are no longer readable)...
I would love to boot up a computer with win2 on it again!!!

remeber Paint - it was black and white!

,, uh does were the days, I used to do 16 color drawings by pixel clicking, and print them on me 24 pin printer!!! - ohh did that thing hammer. Ya sort of miss the sound and wholesomeness of those old computers.... the hardrive power on sequnce sounds, the beep to state the bios has booted. The Starting Mdos3.1...

...who here loved XtreeGold! -the MC before we even knew what MC was.

[Patb]

...who here loved XtreeGold!
Still do! Unixtree (http://www.unixtree.org/index.htm)

But are we missing something?: Your last MS Windows version was...

For me, Win98.

Cheers, Pat.

[izanbardprince]

Windows 3.0

No it wasn't because it was the latest release, it was because I lived in a little hick town and in 1996 our middle school's computer class used 80286 PC's and a few Apple II's, although the Apples were more fun because their operating system consisted entirely of the BASIC computer language, it was fun wiping all the 5 1/4" disks and putting a "new" program on them.

10 PRINT "GO F**K YOURSELF!"
20 GOTO 10

Next day in computer class.......well...call it Virtual **** Cheney 1.0.

[SIXAXIS]

The first Windows computer that I had was Windows 3.1. Then shortly after that we got Windows 95. Then 98, we skipped 2000 and ME, and went to XP. Now I'm booting Ubuntu, Vista, and XP.

[alphabyte]

Dos... which I guess can also be considered within the windows 3.1 realm. Because Windows 3.1 was a program that ran on top of DOS (which was the operating system) :)

Think thats right?:confused:
-Alphabyte

[darrelljon]

I used Win 3.11 at school but had Win 95 at home.

[Antman]

What was the first version of MS Windows that you used?


Windows 3.1 (my first MS OS was actually Dos 5.x)

[andrewjoy]

The first OS i ever used was RISO OS 3.1 ( 3.0 just did not work at all :P)
on an A 3010
Its still better than anything beofre 2k IMO :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS

first windows os 3.11 and well at least it did not crash.

[davidgypsy]

3.1... and that was the last version of Windows that didn't give me loads of trouble!

[FredB]

Windows 3.1 + MS-DOS 6.22 on a 8Mb Cyrix 486DX2...

Back in 1995... Wow, that's a long time ago...

[Rhapsody]

Windows for Workgroups 3.11, which I clearly remember crashed on startup once. Program Manager appeared, but the icons didn't, the startup music was stuck repeating a note over and over, and the whole system was hung.

The PC it was on really should've come with Windows 95, but didn't. We got a discount on it, but had to install it ourselves, and the system was never really stable. It ended up being hit by a nasty virus, which resulting in a series of reformats and reinstalls, with the system alternating between Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and Windows 95 (which I think I upgraded to Windows 95a at one point with a CD).

It wasn't a brilliant PC, but it gave me some good experience. I actually have Windows 3.1 installed right now on a virtual C drive used by DOSBox. I must admit to actually liking the clean, sharp look (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Windows_3.11_workspace.png) of the GUI and icons. I still prefer that sort of look to the softer, more photo-realistic look (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/KDE_4.png) of modern GUIs and icons, but have never found anything to replicate that old look.

[Twitch6000]

Mine was a windows 95 in 1st grade.I remember fixing it from being frozen.I also remember the bsod ALOT.
The other windows oses I have had or tried are,98,2000,ME,XP,and vista.

[Jiraya]

Mine was Win 3.1. I can't remember the DOS version... :(

[tbrminsanity]

I used Win 3.1 in my first HS (hacked it and brought down the entire school's system). My first owned M$ OS was Win 2K which I used till I switch to Linux (I'm not in the mood to pay $400+ for an OS every 2 years).

[slider2800]

Back then at the age of 5 years i started out with Windows 3.1 when my mom brought home a computer from work, so she could do some stuff at home.

I liked it. Really. 3.1 and later 3.11 for Workgroups weren't such bad OSes.
They were too simple to bear such broblems that we know from Win95 and upwards.

[Joeb454]

Windows 3.1 at school

First Windows experience at home was Win 95 :)

[CommonClone]

The first computer I had was a 286 with MS DOS 6.0, I think. It had a monochrome graphics card and no CDROM, mouse, sound, etc. I thought it was state of the art back then. I was about eleven or twelve years old and I remember finding some Basic code in a magazine for a King Kong-like game and it took me hours to type it all into the Basic IDE that came with DOS. That was my first video game.

My first version of Windows was 3.0 which was soon upgraded to 3.11.

[doorknob60]

My first computer had Windows 3.1. I barely remember it because I was like 3 :P Then in like 1998 I got a computer with Windows 95 on it, and I had that until like 2004, when we got a computer with Windows XP. Then later I found out about linux and everything got better.

[elustran]

My first computer ran mac OS 7, I believe... Was using other computers at school and such that had windows 3.1 installed, and before that I was using mac classics with OS 6.

[heartburnkid]

My first Windows PC was 3.1 running the Calmira (http://www.calmira.de/) shell. Good times.

[inportb]

Hehehe... DOS 6.0 FTW.

Now I run Windows 3.11 and Windows 95 B on dosbox. And DOS 7.10 ;p

[solitaire]

My first os was 'win3.1' loved it, ran sweet on my 486dx10 :) think i might still have the dos + win3.1 install floppies in a box in the loft.:) !!!

[ladr0n]

Win 3.1
I (barely) remember when my father first brought it home. I was about 4 at the time. That box ran for about 10 years before we finally threw it away after its third monitor died. In between, I've 98, a couple XP boxes, and I booted Vista when it came with my laptop out of curiosity. Over the course of the last year, all of those have been freed by linux or bsd. The air in my house is so much fresher now that the windows are out of the way.

[hellion0]

The first Microsoft OS a computer of mine ran was Windows 95. Never had a blue screen on it or any bad crashes.

[Jiraya]

Mine was Win 3.11... good old times... :'(

[will1911a1]

3.1

At the time it seemed pretty cool since my other computer was a C64. :)

[Dutchmaster]

I began with MS-DOS on my wife's Tandy 1000 with no internal hd, only a 5.25" floppy drive to serve that purpose. I wrote all my papers with it in my first year of grad school. Then I got a research asst job and moved up to the big time with a new desktop and 3.1 in 1992. It had a 386 with 4mb of ram and it was the bomb.

Wow how times have changed.

[DrOlaf]

The run-time version of Windows that came with Excel, back when my PC was running MS-DOS v3.

[Jiraya]

The run-time version of Windows that came with Excel, back when my PC was running MS-DOS v3.

Wow! That should be a long time ago! :shock:

Linux Archive (http://www.linux-archive.org)

[DrOlaf]

Wow! That should be a long time ago! :shock:

Eh? What? Speak up, sonny!

It was in 1987, when I started as a graduate student.

[Jiraya]

Eh? What? Speak up, sonny!

It was in 1987, when I started as a graduate student.

In 87 I was only 3 :)

[angry_johnnie]

I rather liked windows 95. It wasn't capable of doing much, but it was enough to get me started and interested in computers.

[tonique]

My school got new 386SX machines that came with Windows 3.0! We still made Pascal programs for dos at high school. Ah, nostalgia.

I had Amiga at home. Much later, I bought a computer with Win95 -- should've gone with 98 that was available at the time already. :p

[fufek]

Windows 95 :)

[MaxIBoy]

My dad got a PC with Windows 98 on it, back when it was a new OS. The PC just barely made the system requirements for the OS. He held onto it until just a couple of years ago. The last year or two we had it, it acted really bizarre.

[acelin]

I had an old computer, some weird thing with a really small screen that had DOS on it...
Then another one with Windows 1.0, upgraded to 2.0. I had a 3.1 for the longest time, probably until 1998... My family had a 95 and 98 but they werent mine per se...
We then got a computer with ME on it- my siblings and I drove it into the ground. I looked at the specs on that thing and it should not have been able to run the games we put on it... my current Acer laptop has trouble with some of those games still...
Then we bought a Dell with XP in 2002, and it is still running.
I have a Vista computer currently, so over the past 20 years I have had every single OS except for 2000 by Microsoft.

Never run Bob by the way.

[Eisenwinter]

My first memorable Windows version was 3.1, used at school when I was in first and second grades.

At home at the time, I had a really old computer from the mid 1980s, which ran an operating system (the name of which I do not know) without GUI on it.
It was my sister's computer.

[Ozitraveller]

I ran Windows 286 for a while until I got Windowas 3.0 and a new pc. And before that I used DOS, and before that I had cp/m on a z80.