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MS Windows: Thru the Years

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief October 23, 2007 · 1 min read

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This is like walking down memory lane. This YouTube video shows all of the logos, sounds, and start-up screens of Microsoft Windows.

Pretty amazing to see how MS Windows, the OS we’ve grown to love and hate at the same time, has evolve thru the years.

I remember the first time I saw and used Windows 95. Warm, fuzzy feeling. My friend who just bought an Acer desktop (486 DX4-100MHz with 540MB HDD and 32MB EDO RAM) showed me Win95 and said “How cool is that Recycle Bin?!!”

What’s your most memorable Windows moment ever?

[tags] Microsoft, Windows, 1, 2, 3, 3.1, 3.11, 3.5, 3.51, 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, Start-Up, Start, Sounds, Jingles[/tags]

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41 Comments

Mike Lopez · 19 years ago

Nice one Abe! Ako, alala ko tuloy, I was still able to use Windows 2.0 before. :D Anyway, here’s another video – about Windows error messages naman…

http://funny.mikelopez.info/2007/10/30/windows-sound-beat/

issai · 19 years ago

here’s a funny comic about windows me
http://xkcd.com/323/

jay · 19 years ago

lol.. win ME was a disaster. the OS is so buggy. so many drivers & firmware can’t be install on it and a few apps too.

Mikko · 19 years ago

Windows ME has the best boot screen. Hehe.

Nakakaasar ang Vista, walang logo sa boot screen!

autocad · 19 years ago

My first experience on windows is 3.11 sabi nga ng friend ko nun na system administrator parang DOS na pininturahan. :) Running that with a 386 processor in an baby AT casing and have to install a mathco processor is a headache(paano naman bulok yata binigay sa kin parating sira). Bringing a CPU unit as heavy as a hollow block to the shop and commuting by bus is a pain!

boddah · 19 years ago

ako din first windows namin is 3.11 for workgroups na nasa 386/33Mhz & 4 mb ram na pc (ok ba yung specs), 5 diskettes lang yata yung kelangan para mainstall yung windows, very old school hehe :)

Jon Limjap · 19 years ago

My most memorable Windows moments were booting up a DOS 5.5 or 6.0 with an autoexec.bat file that automatically runs Windows 3.1. Para kunwari Windows 95. Hehehe.

minor · 19 years ago

win98, all day solitaire

elmer valenzuela · 19 years ago

Windows 95. tuwang tuwa na ko non sa Paintbrush

rhodyl · 19 years ago

ako..windows 3.11 ang unang gamit ko.. irurun mo muna sa MS dos bago mo gamitin.. hehehe… those were the days

issai · 19 years ago

my memorable windows moment is during my computer class in highschool. excel 95 has a secret program when you go to the 95th cell and press something like shift + alt + ctrl and some tech button. then it’ll open up a program called hall of tortured souls where you can see the names of the programmers after you type excelkfa. since i came from a all girls catholic highschool, my teacher freaked out when i opened the program! and that supported the rumor that bill gates is the devil. :)