The Rise of Microsoft Windows Part 1: Windows 1.0

Dude.. I've been using and coding PCs since the 80s and have watched a million documentaries, every Computer Chronicles episode, etc. and this is by far the best video I've EVER seen on the history of early Windows. So much information I had never known. To say I rarely learn A SINGLE FACT watching a video like this is accurate, but I learned A TON here. THANK YOU!

For context around 5:05, the setup cost in Jan. 2023 dollars was a bit over $250,000 and each additional 'star' was nearly $55,000.

i love how any video regarding the PC industry in the 80s and 90s features a clip from Computer Chronicles at some point. What a legendary show. RIP Gary Kildall

hour long videos of old computer stuff? This is right up my alley.

Extensive, exhaustive, far reaching, informative, well paced, top notch content, a masterpiece for the Computer History Museum! Congratulations! I started mini-computer H/W & S/W development in 1972 then designed & developed original business & industrial systems starting with CP/M-80 in 1979, MP/M-80 in 1981, CocurrentDOS-386 in 1988 and all of the Microsoft platforms along the way and I have to tell you, you are making me relive the days I was proud to ship product after working 80 hour weeks & going 48 hours straight. Likely only Aerospace & Weapons Development teams experienced the same crazy workloads!

I was in industry during this period. We used HP desktop computers for our design work, writing our own software. Our first PCs were IBM 286 machines running DOS 3.0. When Windows 3 was released, we made the transition, buying box sets of Windows instructional videos on VHS tape. It was a phase where more time was spent learning the OS than doing our job, but that didn’t last too long. Thanks for the video - it was well done.

I love this, always hated how all documentaries about the topic in youtube are just 5 minute quick bites. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! keep it up, pumped for part 2

Looking forward to your part 2, this was beautifully detailed, I've watched this twice now. Please don't be concerned with video length, the people will watch it. Hope part 2 is out soon! -c

This is a THRILLER, way better than anything that you can find on TV. Mad respect 🙏💚

Please don't let us down for the rest of this series! Been watching your channel front to back after getting recommended this. Fantastic work!

Awesome! Can't wait for part 2.

Looks like the YT algo is recommending this vid to people. Well deserved. Subscribed and looking forward to part 2.

This really went far further in depth than I hoped for, thank you for making this for everyone to see and I hope the sequel is made soon!

This video is a seminal work. So much details packed into the masterful presentation! Looking forward to the second part. Thank you 🎉

You deserve far more subscribers than you have based on the quality and depth of information you have in your videos. This documentary about the Windows is so fascinating.

What a gem of a video! heck, the foundation of my career's journey began in these days and I had no idea all this was going on. My first glimpse at Windows was called "Windows 286" and it was part of a bundle of my Zenith 286 PC, circa 87. It was so horrifically slow and klunky on this PC i vividly remember thinking, "Wow, looks cool but it needs more horsepower than I have! oh well, back to DOS"

Good explanation of the somewhat chaotic development process. By the way I still run Windows 1.04 in Virtualbox on a Ryzen 3 2200 G with 8MB of RAM. The minimal amount of memory Virtualbox supports and I don't even complain about the 18MB of video memory Virtualbox needs to run. I have all Windows releases from 1.04 (1987) till 11 (2022), including the NT releases of the nineties. Windows 1.0 is highly modern again with its tiling windows manager :)

Excellent video - many thanks for producing it. I was hoping there was a part 2 or part 3 - I'll keep an eye out for a future release.

I used Amiga Workbench in 1988, so to me, having a GUI was the standard. However, I would not say DOS was difficult to master.

This video is truly underrated. Your work deserve huge more mate!