A little bit of history.

[RichardCranium]

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/t...-disk-for-3495

Remember these?

An RL02 was for more practical.

[RichardCranium]

It claims that Windows 2 saw the introduction of Word and Excel in 1987.

Complete rubbish. Word was originally released for Xenix systems in 1983, and was available on MS-DOS in 1983 and the Mac in 1984. Excel was introduced on the Mac in 1985.

Come on BBC, get your facts straight

Tut, tut, NickFitz. Haven't you learned yet? There were no computers before Microsoft Windows came out.






Edit: I liked the Apple Lisa.

[Mich the Tester]

It claims that Windows 2 saw the introduction of Word and Excel in 1987.

Complete rubbish. Word was originally released for Xenix systems in 1983, and was available on MS-DOS in 1983 and the Mac in 1984. Excel was introduced on the Mac in 1985.

Come on BBC, get your facts straight

Mods, can this man be awarded some geek points?

[NickFitz]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8316268.stm

Windoze from 1 to 7.

It claims that Windows 2 saw the introduction of Word and Excel in 1987.

Complete rubbish. Word was originally released for Xenix systems in 1983, and was available on MS-DOS in 1983 and the Mac in 1984. Excel was introduced on the Mac in 1985.

Come on BBC, get your facts straight

[RichardCranium]

WHY!

I bought the Missus & I two 2nd hand business Dell desktops. They came with XP. I put Windows ME on them.

They fly. They load and shut down fast, maintenance is dead easy, there's no patching to do any more and they just work. Also, they are running without firewalls or resident anti-virus and have stayed clean.

The only two complaints I have of Windows ME are:

• the existence of a registry which makes backing up difficult;
• the lack of resources meaning I cannot run Firefox and IE6 and Word and OpenOffice.org and Excel and then load something else.

My server runs Windows 98SE.

[Mich the Tester]

Running it here.

Lots of coffee breaks at your place then!

[DimPrawn]

Running it here.

WHY!

arrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!

[RichardCranium]

Ha, they mention Windows ME which lasted about 6 months ... longer than any PC that actually installed it ... man that was the worst ever!

Running it here.

[Jeebo72]

Ha, they mention Windows ME which lasted about 6 months ... longer than any PC that actually installed it ... man that was the worst ever!

[moorfield]

My Dad's got an old PC in his attic with Windows 1.0 working on it.

Everytime I go back I keep meaning to rescue it thinking it might be worth something one day!

[zeitghost]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8316268.stm

Windoze from 1 to 7.