Every Windows Version Ever!
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Here's a look back at every desktop version of Windows, starting with Windows 1.0.
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Linus: 'And the point at which today's story ends'
Windows 11: *Not so fast.*
ikr, cant wait
@@22news14 tomorrow
@@alexburnette2526 you mean today
You mean 3 days ago
@@22news14 Beta insider preview will be released tommorow.
lol last windows ever, 10 days later. "Microsoft announce windows 11" lmaooo
With all the hints, this seems likely
Granted, I'm sure they shot this a bit ahead of time, but his conclusion didn't age well 🤣
@@beat00t10 it is xD
Ikr Linus' timing was the best 😂
They never announced it we discovered it... I think... Don't quote me on that...
"Windows 10 is the last version of windows ever"
3 weeks later:
Boy that aged quickly!
ikr
windows 11 baby
windows 10 is my last version of windows ever
Iphone 11 is the last version of apple phones ever 2 weeks later : Iphone 12 got released
Microsoft never said it would be the last version. A Microsoft engineer named Jerry Nixon said it at a developer conference, i think it was a throwaway line, but journalists all grabbed onto it, and it became the narrative.
windows 7 has to be my favourite os, a perfect mix between modern and nostalgic, i wish it never died.
Indeed. I want the classic GUI mode option of Win 7 for windows 11.
I’m still running windows 7 on one of my laptops. Google chrome is still updating their web browser for it
I'd actually be interested in the evolution of Windows Server.
And Windows CE
Me too, people use embedded versions of win10 to bypass windows call-home features
And mobile phone versions. There's a lot of Windows lore the world should know.
As would I, seems interesting.
@@paulsfluff Yeah, after all these years I still don't know what it actually did on Dreamcast
The windows 95 and 2000 startup sounds are permanently branded onto my childhood memories.
XP time
98 and XP 😭
same
Look at the bourgeois here, kids - my OS made no startup sounds (Windows 3.0). Us peasants didn't need that to use an OS :P
@@the_kombinator Ok boomer
You picked a great time to publish this video right before Microsoft states Windows 10 is actually finishing it’s life 😂
It's almost over we gyatta flood to windows 10 LTSC 2019
MS: "Win 10 is the last windows"
Also MS after almost 6 years: "Here's Windows 11. Windows 10 Goodbye in 2025"
That was the longest gap between a launch since Vista and XP
@@filledwithvariousknowledge1065 yea
There is also 10X which is the next 2 OS', 1 year combo
@@cycrothelargeplanet 10X apparently has been ditched now although much of the features like the new start menu have made their way to Windows 11
hello penguin world here I come
Linus should consider making a mini series with Anthony. Each episode should be them finding old hardware from the era and running the appropriate version of windows on the machine.
A new Linus series would be great for some refreshing content on the channel. Especially with the current gen hardware shortages.
this is a fantastic idea
Then put the appropriate Photoshop/Blender on it and send it to the Corridor Digital crew?
Brian the Electrician should be featured! Finding suitable old hardware would become far more easier.
If he was closer to me (I'm in Ontario) I'd consider letting him borrow my V30 Juko XT clone with Windows 2.03 on it, VGA monitor and all. Word and Excel aswell :D
But we already have LGR for that
MS : Windows 10 remains forever
MS ; June 24, 2021 : Behold , Windows 11
MS ; 2025 : We end supporting Windows 10
6:39 lmao
Big announcement yesterday saying that too! W10 the last one... Oh... W11
Seems like a relationship.
@جان مايكل Jean Michael already installed in my PC(the early build)
ms;2026 - Vista Back, Gets love this time
I grew up with XP and 7(skipped Vista), so seeing them brought some nice nostalgia
I do have windows Xp and 7 on my VMWare
My father's computer had windows xp. I remember playing mine sweeper on his computer.
I grew up with Dos 5.0. I feel so old -_-''
@@dosaussiethai2127 You are still young. I grew up on CP/M 2.2 and MSX-DOS.
I grew up with 7 and 10, skipping 8 and 8.1. History repeats itself.
“last windows ever”
that aged well
"Techlengthy" seems like a nice name for their upcoming channel.
oh god no, not another channel....
Techlonger
I always thought ARS Technica was good at this. Ooo. What do you know. Linus made a video there 9 months ago. :D
Wouldn't "Techlenghy" just be Michael MJD?
I'd love it
Why is there no channel with the name TechLengthy? I want more history.
Maybe Yvonne named the channel.
there are a lot of retro channels to check out.. philscomputerlab is a great site to check out, pixelpipes is good for graphics card history. MJD is a good one for operating systems. In fact MJD has a video where he tries to go from 3.11 to windows 7 on the same machine to see what sticks around.. ..
There's my new channel.
SomeOrdinaryGamers made a video installing every version of windows last week
@@SupraSav AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
The person who created the Start Menu in Windows 95 should have a public statue somewhere.
Microsoft: Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows
Also Microsoft: *There is another*
Wearing your hat in that style really helps with the 90s look to this video subject.
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He forgot windows ce, mobile and server
And earrings… don’t see those anymore. Tattoos are the thing nowadays…
How do you do fellow 90s kids, let's talk about Windows versions.
@@ernstoud Good.
History of Windows, I guess
History??
Yahh
Let's make a religion out of this
@@willa8720 no don't
Alternative title:
Windows XP will always stay in the warm corner of my mind.
Who remembers "Longhorn" around 2001? 🙂It was supposedly going to use a "WinFS" file system that never took off, but it was the OS that had the first murmurings of what would become Vista, and that Longhorn prototype was iirc doing the rounds not long after XP came out. What I remember most about it was that it was 726 MB or something like that so it had to be burnt to a DVD, wasting a DVD, when CD's were 700 MB so it wouldn't quite fit on one.
I've seen top 10 lists of Windows that left out Windows 2000. Seriously?
That was perhaps the most rock solid Windows ever. Even now using Windows 10 I get explorer taking a chit and just ending, often killing 8 folders that were open, or icons missing from the notification area - that are at least still running in Task Manager, or my favourite one - every single desktop shortcut having the same random icon (and it can be any icon, I have seen this happen countless times).
Then there's the Matrix sounding electronic sounding audio hiccup I get every now and then, although it's the 22H2 release with all updates and drivers. I'm even thinking of "upgrading" (haha) to Windows 11 to see if it fixes it... but it's probably just one of my old XP tweaks I applied and couldn't be arsed taking out.
Kinda Off-Topic: I can NOT imagine Linus without that beard anymore xD
Much better without it.
Looks a bit like a survivalist who came out the wilderness after months of trying to stay alive. Linus Survival Tips. 😄😆✌
I think it makes him look manlier
Kid
Rewatching old videos feels so weird
So true
the next version of Windows will contain all the best parts of CE, ME, and NT...
Windows CEMENT edition.
Yes lol
No bodies in it, I hope.
😁👌
.. So it will brick your PC every time you try to use it???
That one was Windows Vista, right?
This is one of the most interesting channels concerning technology and IT generally I watch with big interest because of its brief, laconic and in other hand comprehensive overview.
Thank you for your creativity and individual approach to your work.
3:16 damn that startup screen hit me right in the feels
That screen right there was my childhood (mostly because it took almost 10 minutes to start up on my old pentium 2)
Windows 2000 was the most visually pleasing OS they've ever created IMO. But I think I say that for the same reasons you mentioned it.
@@dereksmith1835 I still think vista was the better looking windows, PC OEMs killed it by cramming it onto underpowered shitboxes that could barely run XP
Seeing these past Windows versions gives me Nostalgia big time! Especially the Startup and Shutdown sounds of it 😊
I started using computers with 3.1, then 98, 2000, XP, 7, for a very brief time 8, and now several years with 10. The feelings 😭
Gives me gaytalgia
I remember windows 1 coming out, borrowing it from a friend thinking "he his crazy why would he let me borrow it" I gave it back to him in a couple days sad that I knew it was likely the computer world would be driven down the windows road. Still can't believe the mouse is a thing.
"Every version of Linus" would also be a good one...
Linus... Sebastian, Torvalds, van Pelt, etc.
how about an "every version of Linus' beard" 😅
I wrote Product Activation for XP. Blame me! @4:20. Good video though, pretty fair assessments!
All fun and games until MS shuts down the activation server. (And you need XP for some legacy purpose)
6:37 I think Microsoft forgot to mention that it was only for that decade
"Every Windows version ever" 7 min 35 seconds long
"Every Linux distribution ever" would take years to explain.
He should do it, maybe like "every linux distro that can potentially replace your home windows"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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"... but these guys didn't like that, so they decided to BRANCH... "
It just wouldn't be feasible to do that. A new distro will have released between filming and editing. And another between editing an uploading.
"What kind of operating system does it use?"
"Ermm...Vista"
"We're going to die!"
When you hear this in Moss' voice...
idk, WinMe was a death sentence... unless you liked BSOD blue
I was thinking the exact same thing xD
Every alternate version of windows are nightmare/unpopular. Me - Vista - 8
Have you tried.........
Microsoft: “Windows 10 is the last windows”
ALSO Microsoft: “Behold Windows 11!”
100% sure win 11 will be like Vista, about system required
ALSO ALSO Microsoft: Here is windows 10X
"Windows 10 will be the last version of windows"
Windows 11: Hold my Beer
"The name of the channel isn't Techlengthy"
Obviously not with Linus as a host.
how about 'techgurthy' 😂😂😂
heh
I think he said Techlinked
Techshawty
@@Awesome_Aasim I heard that 1st time as well but on listening to it again he did say techlengthy
Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was quite an important step because of the networking functionality. Much bigger impact that NT 3.1 had.
Was looking for this post. WfW 3.11 was really a big step and actually had a pretty interesting take on networking and how to make it work for the user. It wasn't perfect in any way but made setting up a network much easier than it used to be.
@@blahorgaslisk7763 No, 3.11 was perfect. Every other version wants to grow up and be like him.😄
Totally agreed.
As I had a small office, the 3.11 release allowed me to network several computers inexpensively. Not a lot of money available so used "thin-net" architecture. This method required a special coaxial cable connected serially from computer to computer (no hub) with terminating resistors. But it worked! I defined one computer as a data server and could restrict access as necessary. At the time BBS servers and magazines offered the only information for weird things like "IP addresses" (no internet available for the general public except through limited Compuserve, AOL, Prodigy access).
I agree, WFW 3.11 was the first true 32bit version of windows at the time. It also introduced protected memory and removed direct memory access.
windows 10: the last version of windows
Windows 11 forced on every new device: oh really
We always called it “Windows Malfunction Edition”
I call it: Windows Meme Edition
@@SteavyThe11 ok Mr Roblox
The nostalgia when you showed Xp, Vista and 7 was through the roof.
XP, Vista and 7...? That was yesterday. I remember Windows 2.0... 😳
Same, wish I could step back in time to try them out again for the first time! Remember my family had an old Win98 machine (complete with Pac Man, Dig Dug, Pole Position... and no sound card or internet connection!) before my parents got an XP machine for work. Got to play 3D Space Cadet Pinball and some of those early flash games occasionally! Vista was slow but I loved the cool graphics. My first laptop was Windows 7, sadly it no longer works but lots of memories of playing games and procrastinating homework on that thing! :)
@@lastdreamofhome on any 2008 pc, vista was far from slow (even with 2g ram it was pretty damn fast)
@@robert4you I'm pissed I have to use crappy spyware windows 10. Windows 7 was such a better system.
@Mister Lau Exactly. When the youth of today read that we used MS-DOS 6.0 they probably think we had dinosaurs in the garden back then... The first "real" Windows I worked on was Windows 3.1, but I remember Microsoft's launch of Windows 2.0. Even though these OS's were very primitive, and crashed twice a month, it was a fun time to live in. To grow up in the PC era (not the political one) was never boring. My first PC did not even have a CD-ROM, and definitely not a USB, just a 3,5 floppy drive. My first Word 2.0 came in a box with 8 or 10 floppy disks... Those were the times. No Internet. No Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, CZcams Amazon etc. just a simple 386 or a 486 CPU machine.
I think part of the reason XP is so ubiquitous and well loved was because it was a good OS at the right time. Yeah, a lot of companies began relying on computers in the 90s, but as the 2000s dawned, computers became truly common in both businesses and households. Thus, being the dominant OS at the time, everyone used XP and learned to work with it.
People forget that it had to be patched *TWICE to be reliable. XP+Service Pack 2 was very stable.
Also Gates was giving it away (and hardware) to Governments and schools in order to embed their systems and back-ends in Windows. It's incredibly difficult and expensive to transition back out. This is one reason the British Gov and many local authorities were still running Win years after their OS was passed it's sell by date. And it also created an industry of Win Tech Experts (?) employed to keep the shite going.
Honestly, if they released a new version of XP with modern necessities, patches, fixes, and other modern features under the hood, that shit would take off higher than a Columbian drug lord on cocaine.
XP = First consumer PC on NT kernel = win!
Me watching the video today: there is another.
Even though I was born in 2006, I remember that we had windows XP until I was 5 or 6. Now I'm using windows 11, but XP is by far my favorite. I would happily use it once more for nostalgia.
Wow! I was born in 1997, and I remember when my dad got his first computer in around 2001, (must be after XP launched, because it had XP) and he switched it out with a laptop later, like 2005-9, and oddly enough it had XP too. so even though my first PC, I got in 2010, had Windows 7, and I used it a lot! I still feel more Familia with XP! there's just something about it, it's just different when you have grown up with the thing!
@@christianfoghsrensen5744 Windows 7 was probably a lot better but yeah, there’s something so good about XP… It feels like I’m home
It for sure was a lot better! And even so similar that if you had used XP you could use Windows 7. But I think it was the fact that many PCs came with the startup sound turned of, and boring backgrounds, Windows XP was just a complete experience, with the recognizable startup sound and that hill as a background, built in apps like Spider and the pin ball game. That's just Windows XP and that's how Windows XP looks on every computer!
Microsoft has always had an interesting way of naming their Alpha releases: they call them...Service Pack 1.
@@tripplefives1402 wooooooooooooooosh
@@tripplefives1402 r/woooooosh
No, ME, Vista, and Win8 were just beta releases that Microsoft went ahead and RTMed to disaster anyway. XP and Win10 are at least good beta releases. Except for ME (which got succeeded by XP) and Win10, all these releases got finalized with XP SP2/SP3, Vista SP1/SP2 (and Platform Updates), and Win8.1 (with April 2014 update). Windows 7 SP1 was the last service pack for any version of Windows, as Win8.1 and updates to Win10 started changing the underlying OS, whereas service packs did not do this.
@@MarioMastr I think your got r/woooooosh 'd lol
@@tripplefives1402 Did I forget to turn on my sarcasm flag? Some of you guys need to find a sense of humor.
Omg that search dog in xp is such a nostalgia
an nostalgum
rip clippy
I used to change it to the wizard haha
if you find the dog nostalgic you must be a young padewan!
i felt the nostalgia with the win95 simple colored background, as it reminded me of the games one could play (lemmings, prince of persia, doom, duke nukem, wolfenstein)...
i mean, i remember win3.1 and even dos, but it wasn't until 95 that gaming really began... and then in 99 you had unreal tournament, oh the nostalgia!
If you told it "don't use an animated character during searches" it made you watch the dog hang its head and walk away.
Linus: 'And the point at which today's story ends
Windows 11: Not so fast.
The most recent insider build looks good and is surprisingly light, I look forward to the June 24th announcement. Build 21930 is a huge change
I'd be down to see incremental versions of Win 10, like everything from 1603 and up to 20h2 and beyond. Its fun finding Win 10 machines from initial release and comparing it to the modern versions.
I'd also be very interested!
Same, but just drop the 10 and simply call it Windows (for example Windows version 21H1).
Downloading old versions of 10 is going to be a nightmare at some point i just know it. Specific versions of vista and 7 are already a little tricky but damn 10 is another boat of problems haha.
@@ShinyElGhosteo That's why they should simplify the name: the 10 on Windows 10 is pointless already.
One thing you notice is how the search gets progressively worse with each new version. The best search in Windows was Vista.
Okay but “TechLengthy” is something I would watch, especially if Anthony is involved
Same lol
You in my brain bro?
Yeah 1h as the minimum per video.
Then go on LINUS TECH TIPS
Where instead of tech talks everything else happens
Same
Linus: 'And the point at which today's story ends'
Windows 11: Bonjour.
Microsoft: "it's the last Windows"
Linus: "it's the last Windows"
Microsoft: *rounding of some glas with a file*
Microsoft: "haha, not so quick there"
This is so cool, I remember having a class about this in highschool, I bet more people will be able to use this video which makes it quick and easy!
This comment makes me feel old. I lived through all of this except for the very first one and my first computer had the DOS based 3. It's weird knowing kids are learning about my time in school xD
It’s surprising how well Windows has done, considering Microsoft couldn’t even count to ten properly
They're just kinda copying megaman X
everyone be hating on the number 9
@@vtyt9685 Windows team didnt did win 9 Cause of 9X (95,98) family
I saw Bill count to five so you're already half wrong.
Well they certainly cant do math properly. Right now i have a windows 10 pc thats calculator cant do math right. It will calculate an equation in the order it is written instead of doing multiplication and division first, then addition and subtraction. Pathetic.
Windows 1.0 - Windows 10: The Bill Gates era
Windows 11: The who ever you are era
Linus: makes video with every version of Windows
Microsoft: release Windows 11
Linus: ah sh*t here we go again
windows 11 is not released yet
I have a version of Microsoft word for dos 3, I think it was. It's still sealed and brand new, if you guys would be interested in exploring it as old software like you did with image editing
there are a few great retro channels to check out if you decide to build a retro machine.
Wow
Send it the LGR tech tales!
Contact the 8-bit guy
Kind of missed the legendary 3.11 Windows For Workgroups edition there Linus.
You beat me to it
Indeed. Feels weird that 3.2 gets mentioned and WfW doesn't ...
@@JoachimSauer1 WFW suddenly make it easier for the average enthusiast in small offices to network everything. I helped three businesses back in the early 90s setup their systems.
Thank you, that was my first Windows. As a little kid, it was fun fucking around with it, and customizing.
@@buttholethebarbarian8248 And changing IRQ addresses to ruin your entire school computer lab.... er, yeah, I mean, fucking around with and customizing!
I was born in 1998 and grew up with Windows 2000. Got an old PC from my mum when I was 10. Used it for many years. Because the hardware was so old, I could only play old games on it. Like from the late 90's and early 2000's. As a result, I missed out on a lot of the games that were popular in my generation (but I did get Minecraft running! Only at 15 FPS, but it was still playable). On the other hand, I feel nostalgic for a time I should be too young to remember lol.
03:38 Oh windows ME... The only Windows version to be named after a debilitating illness (Myalgic encephalomyelitis)
Can't wait for "Every Linux Distro Ever!"
tbf distro lineage would be interesting (mainstream/desktop ones only and discount minorly tweaked ones)
@@ashlyy1341 I mean really wouldn't be fun that point. Who can the forget the my little pony distro (cringes).
@@murphy7801 well that's why I'm saying not to list every single one
@@ashlyy1341 I was just making a joke
As Linus has already mentioned, it's called Tech *quickie*! 😛
Bill Wurtz should make a history of windows, I guess
YES.
Here you go:
in the beginning, there was the **Macintosh**.
and then bill gates saw it and said "let's make an os" and then there was **Windows**
and then steve jobs was mad and said "stop stealing our look and feel"
and then bill gates said "no"
and then bill gates said "ok the windows are tiled now will you stop suing us"
and then bill gates said "don't sue us or we'll take away Apple II basic"
and then john sculley fired steve jobs who made another company called NeXT that nobody really cared about
and then bill gates said "well that guy's gone let's let windows overlap" and there was **Windows 2**
and then IBM was like "hey DOS is great and Windows is great but what if we had **kernels** and **multitasking** and **protected memory**"
and then bill gates said "ok"
and then IBM said "oh by the way we need it to run on a 286"
and then bill gates said "fuck" and the world was cursed with OS/2
meanwhile, the Windows team is about to release **Windows 3**... point one... one... for workgroups and it was great and it sold millions of copies
so bill gates decided to tell IBM they weren't developing OS/2 3.0 and then IBM said fuck it we'll call it OS/2 **Warp** and have Patrick Stewart, er, I mean, Kate Mulgrew at the launch event
and then bill gates was like "hey DOS is great and Windows is great but what if we had **kernels** and **multitasking** and **protected memory**"
and then they took OS/2 3.0 and deleted all of IBM's terrible code and called it **New Technology** or Windows NT for short and OS/2 disappeared, never to be seen again save for a frightening number of ATMs and the New York City subway system
and then all the UNIX vendors in the UNIX wars said "fuck" and Novell said "fuck" and pretty much everyone but Solaris said "fuck" and steve jobs said "fuck" and realized nobody was buying his fancy black cube computers so he wound up porting all his code to Windows NT
and then IBM was like "hey the Macintosh is great and System 7 is great but what if we had **kernels** and **multitasking** and **protected memory**"
and then Apple wasted a bunch of money delaying and delaying the new Mac OS again and again until it wound up becoming a new environment for AIX and OS/2 for some reason
and then bill gates was like "hey DOS is great and Windows is great and Windows NT is great but what if we had **compatibility**" and made a proper memory-protected multitasking OS and release **Windows 95**
and then Apple was like "fuck" and was nearly bankrupt and wound up buying steve jobs's bankrupt black cube computer company for some reason don't pay attention to them they'll never be important
meanwhile Microsoft is making shittons of money and Windows starts getting more and more things like **USB** and **Windows Media Player** and **Internet Explorer** and **antitrust litigation**
and the department of justice wants to tear Microsoft to pieces but the appeals court says no
but the European Union says yes and Microsoft pays a bunch of money in fines
and then bill gates was like "hey Windows 98 is great and Windows NT is great but what if we had **one operating system**" and started work on **Windows XP** but it took too long and he had to release **Windows Millennium Edition**
meanwhile steve jobs assumed direct control of Apple and took the OS for his fancy black cube computer and called it **Mac OS X** and it had **Aqua** and **graphics compositing** and **Spotlight**
and bill gates was like "fuck"
and Microsoft proceeded to add a bunch of hardware compositing support and object-oriented filesystem nonsense for **Project Longhorn** that took forever to develop and had to be restarted halfway through before being called **Windows Vista** and everyone was angry because it only worked on like half of PCs
meanwhile bill gates was busy making a tablet PC and one of the people on the project was bragging to steve jobs about how great it was and he was so angry he invented **the iPad**
meanwhile meanwhile Microsoft was getting so many complaints about Vista that were due to buggy drivers that they just gave it some minor bugfixes and released **Windows 7** and it was great
but wait! everyone's still on Windows XP and their computers are too old to run Vista or 7 so Microsoft's spending way too much money on **support updates** for this ancient OS so they pull support for it and everyone's angry
meanwhile it turns out everyone really liked that iPad thing and bill gates saw it and said "let's make an os" except they didn't have the time to make a new OS so they just took Windows and gave it **multitouch** and **a start screen** and **an app store** and **fullscreen-only applications** and called it Windows 8
meanwhile steve jobs died because he didn't want to cure his cancer with actual medicine
and everyone hated Windows 8 so much that they had to put the start button back in 8.1 because nobody was buying Windows tablets and nobody was developing applications for Windows 8
meanwhile Microsoft had to extend Windows XP support again and was worried about Windows 7 becoming the new Windows XP so they decided to force people to upgrade to **Windows 10** which wasn't called 9 because they already used that number and it had a regular desktop again but it was also a tablet OS that was actually better than the iPad
and everyone was angry about having to upgrade to Windows 10 and called it spyware
@@SuperSmashDolls F- The beginning was *not* the Macintosh.
@@grey5626 I think it was IBM
@@grey5626 Microsoft was one of the first Macintosh third party developers and had prerelease access to the system. Windows's initial design is far closer to early Mac OS than, say, the Xerox PARC prototypes Steve Jobs had gotten a look at. So starting with the Macintosh seems appropriate for a history of *Windows*
But hey, here's a technically more accurate beginning anyway:
in the beginning, there was CP/M
and then Seattle Computer Products said "let's make an OS" and then there was **QDOS**
and then IBM said "let's make a PC" but their employees were like "it'll take too long" and IBM management said "why not just buy a bunch of off-the-shelf parts" and so they stuck an Intel 8086 in it
and then gary kildall said "hey we have a great OS for the PC" and it was great because it was already on a bunch of other computers but they were still porting it to the Intel 8086
and then bill gates said "hey we have a great OS for the PC" but they didn't have an OS at all so they went to Seattle Computer Products and bought *QDOS* because it was already on the 8086
and then gary kildall was late for a meeting because he was skydiving with his wife so IBM decided to go with Microsoft's OS
and then Digital Research got mad so IBM promised they'd sell CP/M-86 too but bill gates made sure that PC-DOS was the cheapest option so that nobody bought CP/M-86
meanwhile steve jobs is busy making the **Lisa** but wait no, who cares about that, now he's making the **Macintosh**
and then bill gates said "let's make an OS"
and then Microsoft more or less cloned the Macintosh's OS and called it **Windows**
somewhere in my collection of tech antiquities, I've got a pre version 1.0 version of windows. if memory serves me correctly, its version .8, and was out to us around the IBM DOS 1.2/Compaq DOS 2.X timeline. it had very limited functionality, outside the base games and blocky graphics. none of us really gave it much weight at the time, but it remains in my collection......
I miss windows 3.1 so much. It was just so much simpler and you didn't have annoying boxes popping up every 5 seconds
"Windows 3.0 Minesweeper is responsible for modern gaming." Great take Linus.
I lost a lot of my life to that. So much better than solitaire.
Preordering games does feel a lot like playing Minesweeper.
IIRC Solitaire and Minesweeper were very clever tricks to sneakily teach people how to use a mouse, since that was still new back then. A "tutorial" would have gone down like a poo sandwich, but gamifying the process meant that people wanted to use them and got better at using the mouse as a "side-effect" ;-)
Pretty sure it was pinball 3d
Yeah, it's not like any DOS game was played so much it was installed even more than Windows 95, right? :kappa:
I remember everyone agreeing, "Never get the newest version of Windows until all the bugs are worked out."
Yes, Except for win 8.1. Got that as an OEM option and jumped ship to win 10 as soon as I could.
That's why I only moved from 7 to 10 less than 2 years ago. Never jump to the new OS quickly!
@@LordGalenYT At first they said Win10 will be the last version. Today, they're talking about a new Windows version in a few months.
Wait till SP1
if that was the case we'd all still be using Commodore 64's.
Reliving some nostalgia and reading that "Windows 10 will be last windows ever" while watching this video on a Windows 11 platform.
It's amazing thinking all this is less than 50 years ago.
Someone would have been born in the era without a computer, then all of a sudden now be working only with a computer.
I still remember my uncle lied to me about his computer was "busted during the windows 99 upgrade from windows 98" so I wont play his computer
Lol
Wow Linus back on tech quickie
we want more of him
@@agambansal902 ikr
Linus: The last version of Windows
Microsoft: gotcha!
Linus: Windows 10 is going to be the last version of Windows ever
Windows 11: *I am gonna end this man's whole career*
Seeing the evolution of the GUI brings back so many cool memories of desktops I've owned over decades now and the apps/games that I used on them. It's been an amazing journey. Cool stuff! 😎💾💿
Now if they would give an option to switch between the classic GUI and the modern one would be great especially without having to use stupid high contrast crap that is buggy and looks like total crap.
Aaaah yes... what time it was back then. I did set up my box with Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 and SuSE Linux as Dual Boot (sort of a Triple Boot setup) only for the reason to game on 98... have 2000 for other games that required a modern platform and Linux for daily driving... So Windows 98 runs the most on it. 2000 while i did run other games and Linux while i was on the web.
This setup was running until my next hardware upgrade, only eventually swapped 2000 with WinXP SP2, because the new machine lost onboard Serial Ports (that was needed for splitscreen multiplayer on settlers 2). Yeah... today with the ability of using virtual hardware or similar things, the requirements are softened, and my daily driver is Linux.
We need Anthony to do "history of Linux"
@@maaasnna Sound like a video i would watch... all 36 hours that it would be.
@@frantickoala994 years*
Please no, I don't want to avoid an Anthony video but I'm not loading a 50 hour piece of media
@Lucas Zhu yeah, "every noteworthy Linux distro" wouldn't be that bad.
Techquickie: That is where todays story ends
Windows 11: *Let me introduce myself.*
"Last version of windows ever"
Windows 11 has entered the chat.
Ahh, only a year old--already aged like fine milk.
in the next episode: every linux version so far...
Video: 20 days, 16h:35m:19s long
That might take a few montha to watch
@@DacLMK Alternate title: "We're just trying to break CZcams now..."
Every windows version ever : 3 min
Every linux version ever : 3 hours
LoL Linux is Huge
Just for the debian based ones
maybe 3 weeks or 3 months of video
Windows XP Media Center Edition didn't get a look in. Loved that version on the TV at home.
Someone: Are you a Windows fan? List every Windows.
Techquickie:
Nostalgia tells me how good XP was but in reality I have waaaaaay less problems now with Win10 than ever before.
Windows XP is just timeless... Even without fancy animations and transitions, that what makes it feels like the fastest OS of its time
I still use Windows XP in an emulator. It is great.
We still have XP on some of our NHS computers. And honestly it is the best OS. There's just 0 bloat.
@@jamesash7368 Unless the manufacture had gone out of their way to bloat it to death. Looking at you Emachines and the e-waste you hoisted upon humankind.
XP was and is the greatest Windows ever. Everything was so smooth with XP. Ok, I stripped it to bare minimum because I used it with my other digital audio workstations but still.
I miss the beauty of Vista's aero glass theme
I still use a vista for pictures since to me that was the best since I am a amateur photographer. Even window 10 doesn't even compair and can't stand.
I was 10 when windows XP came out. You could tell it was the dawn of a new era. Everything just clicked. The login sounds. The colors. The wallpapers. The icons. It was so useful.
4:04 Hey That's Me Nathan Over by that Guitar lol :D
In case no one mentioned it in a prior comment, you forgot an important extension to Windows 3.1 - Windows for Workgroups. WFW provided vastly superior networking over plain ol' Windows 3.1. WFW 3.11 was the first version of Windows to provide native TCP/IP support. In my book, WFW was a version not to be overlooked in a video about every Windows version ever! Liked the vid anyway. :)
100% agree, WFWG (Windows 3.11) was the game changer and is a sore miss here.
Came to the comments for this! 3.11 was a huge upgrade. To mention 98 SE and not 3.11 seems borderline blasphemous. Also, Windows 11...thanks MS for launching that mess!
@@isaacjjones Now it is not a mess, it is a good os and with 22h2 it will become more good.
My favourite was XP. The things I liked the most was the file transfer animation and when you clicked shut down in the start menu, the background would become gray. I dont know why I like it so much.
Clippy also!
@@VashStarwind Office 94 was the first with Clippy...
I've been a Windows user since 3.1 in 1992. I've enjoyed every version except Millennium. It's been a great journey.
This takes me back... My first ever OS was the W2K. I remember playing 3D Pinball Space Cadet and watching my sister playing The 5th Element. Good times.
XP was my second and my favorite, which I used until 2012, when I got a laptop with W7. I also used Vista for a while, maybe a few months (it was really "resource hungry").
Seven is also pretty good and I used it until last year, when I traded for W8.1.
I actually once thought about giving up Windows when Microsoft ended the support for W7 but 8.1 is holding up. It's good.
As for the future... maybe Windows 11! =D
"But did you know it wasn't even a real operating system?"
Yes. Yes, I did.
I had to install Win 3.1 on our work computers over DOS 6.2. That was an afternoon of reading while waiting to feed the next floppy.
@@jeffreypierson2064 It's crazy that even installing Windows 10 (which during the installation looks like Win 7 for some reason lol) takes hours, even today. Meanwhile I can install something like Arch linux in 15 minutes, and that's supposedly very "complicated".
@@5HT2A292 it doesn't take that long to install any version of windows unless you're using floppy drives. theres been 2 times it took me over an hour to install windows. first was with an old computer which for some reason would take about 20 minutes to launch the setup, and the second was with an hp prebuild from 2007 that had almost every single capacitor about to explode. installing windows xp on that machine took a good 8 hours.
i just remembered one more instance of windows taking a lot of time to install. my mom wanted to reinstall windows 10 on her laptop. it was a lenovo (forgot the model) with 4gb of ddr3 and an amd c-60. that cpu was so stupidly slow it took 10 hours to finish the setup and another extra 4 hours to get to the desktop. after windows finished updating, the system became so slow it takes minutes to load google, once edge finished loading of course. any other page takes a good 5 minutes to load.
i should also point out that the computer has an ssd, so its not limited by storage speed. the processor is REALLY that slow, and whats worse is that theres also another weaker model on the same line, the c-50, which doesn't have boost frequency. 1ghz base clock for both c-50 and 60, and 1.23ghz boost for the c-60. still so slow it takes 10 seconds to save a word document.
@@5HT2A292 "and that's supposedly very "complicated" "
Ah yes the superior Arch user.
yes, I am interested in a future video of "Every Windows Server Version Ever!"
Me on Windows 11 - "Yes, I agree with the press conference about 10 being the last Windows ever, Microsoft would never change their minds".
Brings back good memories of most of those. I started with Windows 3.1 on. I still remember trying to like OS2 Warp lol
Great seeing the old versions of windows again. Thank you for running me through memory lane!
I'd love to know a lot more about how Windows Server editions ACTUALLY differ from home/pro. Would love a video for that!
Windows Server includes tools specialized for use in servers.
I love the rose colered glasses that XP is talked about, I still remember when it first came out it was know as Windows Xtra Problems
Thanks for portraying the early Windows trilogy in its original 4:3 ratio. Everyone keeps stretching it around or showing Windows 1 with square pixels and it's annoying.
Windows XP wasn't good until SP2 and it's the SP3 edition that many consider 'legendary', but the rocky start that XP had seems to be completely forgotten... meanwhile, Vista was quite good after the first couple updates. Windows 7 was basically Vista Service Pack 3 with some UI changes to make it 'new'.
This ^
I remember when we got the hybrid OS, Windows CEmeNT; installed on everything, ran on nothing.
what is windows CEmeNT is?
is that means WinCE(or later called Embedded),WInME(Milenial Known as Mistaken Edition) and WInNT(High Power WIndows For Server Back Then)
@@ShiroCh_ID If you ever worked for it WinCE made you constantly wince, especially during building OR loading OR coding lol
6:30
That aged well...
"Windows 2000"
Still my favorite verison of Windows ever. I miss good 'ol Win2K. :(
same.
Agree! Windows 2K was a favorite of mine until XP proved itself stable.
I ran Server 2000 for public facing web services until 2012 ish it was a fantastic OS. The whole time on the same Maxtor hd ......that has to be the longest lasting Maxtor HD in history.
Really loved it too. I remember at the end there was a flaw that allowed remote access after win2k threw a blue screen. That was scary at the time.
Windows XP x64 was the best. I did run windows 2000 after I got tired of windows 98 crashing every day. But XP x64 was the best.
"Anti-Piracy, Product Activation Scheme"
Say that to the Windows XP not-so-Professional burned disc I found that made me discover what my childhood PC ran on that whole decade my dad had it for. Lol
I was born in 1982.
And, man, you just ran through my whole life of digital history.
I’m more an Apple and Linux person, with the exception of my Alienware gaming PC, but damn, the nostalgia!
Having been a windows user since 3.1.1, this video was an uppercut in my nostalgic regions
Next video: "Every Linux Distro Ever!"
Linus taking 7:35 for telling the names of the distros
_"And that's it for the -buntu based distros, now for our next episode we'll get into arch..."_
I honestly want to see this.
@@spagettech Me too. I have no clue what the differences between linux distros are aside from different commands to do the same thing. Yum and apt-get come to mind.
@@someoneinthecrowd4313 well there are differences in how the packages are packaged but that is mostly behind the scenes. Also some distros have more packages than others (Debian and arch with the arch user repository) and some distros only have Foss software in their repos. Gentoo compiles everything from source instead of the binary. Other than that its literally just how they have themed it which you can recreate on any distro.
I like the idea of "Yakko's World" but it's just Linux distros