![]() ![]() The product missed its initial release date of early 1987, though after that the development seems to have been fairly orderly with no large hiccups, and two alpha releases were sent to developers around May or June 1987, followed by two beta releases in July and August 1987.Īt the same time as Windows 2.0, Microsoft were also working on a version of Windows designed to use the Intel 386's virtual 8086 mode to pre-emptively multitask MS-DOS applications in virtual machines. ![]() This was toggleable at first, but the option was then removed entirely as the environment moved to overlapping windows exclusively.īy October 1986, the product had been renamed to Windows 1.5, and then again shortly after that to version 2.0, most likely as a recognition of the large changes that had been made as many new APIs had been added and parts of the kernel had been rewritten from C into assembly or vice versa. To solve this, support for overlapping all kinds of windows was introduced (up to this point, only dialog boxes could overlap other windows). One of the primary complaints from those who used Windows 1.0 was the tiled window management, which many users found confusing. The initial plan was for a point release, version 1.1. Windows 2.0 was planned since at least April 1985 and started development shortly after the completion of Windows 1.01.
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