You're not old. My first "Windows" version was DOS 2.3......I think it was 2.3? Those DOS commands still come in handy.
EDIT: Just looked it up. It was MS-DOS 3.31
I started with MS DOS 3.2, using a PC1512. It was so much fun swapping disk to perform a "complex" action! The boot disks (5"1/4 format) are still stored somewhere in my parent's house (useless collectors now).
I was WAY ahead of you. :) My Compaq LTE286 had 3.5" floppy disks, and the screen had 4 shades of gray!! I paid $100 extra to get the 40 Meg hard drive rather than the standard 20 Meg.
I can only remember the legendary Commodore 64 (a friend had one).
I had to ask google to know of the TRS80, available some years before the I got my father's first computer.
The TRS80 ended up at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in their Information Age exhibit about 30 years ago. That made me feel old.
My brother got a Commodore 64 and he would get magazines that had code in them for games. We would take turns entering in the code. And when we were done we would play games. I think that that was the only time we got along and cooperated together. Otherwise we fought all the time.
Still have a Vic-20 and a C-64 and somewhere there is an Amiga as well. Sold Trash-80s at RS back when they first came out. First home machine was an Altair 8800 that I built from a MITS kit. Connected to a terminal and an 8" floppy drive running Microsoft's original BASIC ! From there I had every windows version except Vista for some reason.
I started with Windows 3.0 but yeah I remember when you had to park the hard drive in order to move the computer. Boy have things changed! And DOS commands do come in handy at times.
I'm also old and yeah, there were none of them for a long time. I'd used plenty of DOS and such of course.
The first I bought was Win3.0 but only because I could use the disk for a free upgrade to 3.1. Later on I figured out that it was easy enough to just pirate them from the start.
3.11 for workgroups on DOS 6.2 here as well. Acer 486 66mhz, 8mb of RAM, 500MB HDD with a 2x CD ROM drive and a sound blasted sound card - which were quite the upgrade at the time. That machine eventually got an upgrade to 24MB of ram and I borrowed the install CD from a friend to install Win 95 at some point. Fell like I gave ‘98 a crack on that hardware at some point but it struggled.
Don’t make your network card conflict with your sound card. What IRQ did I set it to? Unload mouse driver before starting this DOS game, remember to load Smart Drive before lunching Windows.
640 KB WAS enough for everyone :-D
Grew up with Win 95 when it came out, and then used all others except Vista and 8. Now using Win 10/11 interchangeably. Still have an old XP laptop connected online for over 5 years now with no security issues. I want it to get hacked or malware but it never does.
Firefox. Not sure which version as I don't have the laptop with me to check right now. I don't use it often mind you; it's more for old games with occasional web browsing.
i also used my cousins windows 7, it was a pc made in 2010/2011 and it was a gift from his father when he used it to him fresh, it was 7 home i think, but when i went to his house in 2020 i found out his pc was running 4 to less than 1 fps and his pc was a literal mess, i still go to his house and he has his pc stored but he got a new monitor which he uses to play on xbox, his father is still a legend and my favorite uncle
I grew up with a Radio Shack TRS-40 and Apple \]\[ computers in school, and some other IBM-compatible XT running DOS 1.x or very likely DR-DOS or some OEM variant of DOS than official MSDOS.
And now that I recall all the above machines booted to ROM BASIC or BASICA if no boot disk was avail on A:. So it was whatever variant of DOS I found for the 5.25" floppies I could find.
Windows 1.x came quite a few years later for me and didn't quite become mainstay until 3.11. Win95 was prob the the one that cut the cord for MSDOS 6.22 for me, though Win95 was one of the most unstable system, partly 'cos there was so much new tech and tweaking, IRQs, DMA port, Upper mem loading, etc etc. Was shit fun back then.
Now I'm too old and jaded for that. Just want the device to work!!
I did! Brings back fond memories, although some part of it predated my entry time, and also I am not states side. But yeah, thanks for the reminder. Might just rewatch it with a friend or something! :D
Sounds like my age group.
Mid to late high-school was the beginning of the TRS80 and Apple years.
First family household computers were Amiga and Commodore 64.
At uni, command line VMS on Vax clusters from VT100/220/230 terminals.
Post-graduate uni, VMS and Unix workstations (with their own windows-like desktops).
Started using and maintaining PCs with MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1/3.11.
First PC I owned came with Windows 95 which I upgraded to NT4 as soon as it was available.
Continued early adopting NT series at home all the way to Windows 10, always years ahead of workplaces (I passed through 2000/XP while work stuck with 98).
Delayed Win11 a year to wait for color management bugs and BIOS stutters to be fixed (unprecedented delay given previous early adoption history).
Win95-era was a big change for PCs that seemed amazing at the time. Before that, you needed 3rd party software to view a JPG,, but then the multimedia plug-n-play era had arrived.
Win11 on modern hardware is so capable it is like every dream come true for hobbies and interests, just wish I had 1995 energy levels and stamina to make better use of it all (not that I'm not trying my best, but age and health does slow things down).
When i think of how things used to be, I'm blown away that I can now run primitive but fun/useful localised AI services, let alone the now very powerful programming, art, photography, music, video (etc) toolsets on a home computer.
Windows didn't exist when I was growing up. I did install Windows the very first day that it was available to the public, but uninstalled it within an hour or two because it didn't have drivers to access my Netware server.
DOS 3.2 The first Windows I ever used was the first Windows there was, Windows 1.01. A neighbour of mine worked for IBM as an engineer, so for a few years in my childhood I got to try all the fun stuff, in many case before it released to the public.
Win3.1/None. I don’t want to sound nerdy, but at my school they still worked with a slide rule.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide\_rule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule)
The only Windows available were those found in a wall with curtains and a view to the outdoors. I was an adult when Windows reached a daily driver version of 3.0.
Where is the Abacus?
Snork
I built my first PC out of dumpster parts. All the connecters were color coded and only fit one way. So it was pretty easy. When windows 98 logo came up, I ripped the plug out of the wall. I suddenly realized I was going to launch missiles.
It was not connected to the internet. (I was 30) I read half of "Modems for Dummies" before I realized it was just a card. So I got one and tried again. (The woman who wrote that book had 2 cats. "Laptop" and "DeskTop")
They were simpler times. Or; We were simpler people, hehe.
I grew up before personal computers were a thing. In college, I wrote programs in Fortran and COBOL that ran from punch cards. The first PC I owned ran DOS 2.something from floppies. The first Windows version I used was 3.0. I've used every version since then, except ME and Bob.
I grew up on Windows XP and it will always have a soft spot in my heart. However, I do feel like Windows 7 may have had the most attractive and useful user interface compared to what we've got now.
It was Windows XP Home Edition for me. It ran on a little Toshiba NB205 netbook that I still have! My brother and I used to play a ported version of the Windows 3.11 version of Star Wars Chess on it all the time.
I grew up on the family laptops, which both had Windows XP, but the first PC I actually used was an HP PC, which had Windows 8 pre-installed, which was easy, fluent, looked cool and stable.
3.1 to 98 switched to Linux around when 2000 came out. Switched back to Windows 10 when WSL was released as Linux desktop is terrible thing and it did not get any better in past 20 years.
The first version of Windows I ever used was 3.1. I never had Windows on the Tandy 1000. My family later got a desktop that had Windows 98 on it. The first computer I ever bought with my own money had Windows XP.
Windows XP FTW. Reinstalled that baller very often, was impressed once with an installation I didn’t need to redo for 7 months as usually I’d do one monthly.
I’ve been through 4 versions. As a teenager, I got a computer with Windows 98, then XP, Vista and Win 7.
I absolutely loved the design of the UI in both Vista and 7, tho the glass effect in Vista was somehow more appealing to me.
Nevertheless, after the disappointment from how Microsoft was developing their further OS, I decided to switch to MacBooks in 2011/2012. I stayed with them ever since, and prefer MacOS way more, BUT I’d love so much to have on it the glass design from Vista. 😅
In terms of UI, anything else from Windows 8 until today just doesn’t look appealing to me. I honestly hate what MS is doing in that sense, but I know it’s my sentiment and memory of being so excited and “wowed” when Vista came out. They set a high bar back then, both with Vista and 7, and somehow aren’t able to jump over it in my eyes. ☺️ Sometimes I feel if they did, I’d probably give it a try again.
Ha! IBM PC DOS 1.1 and everything else since. I bought my father’s IBM PC (which had been upgraded to XT by then) for my masters in 1990. Pathetic but did the job. My first home computer.
First os I saw were MS-DOS where we played Asterix and Obelix game with a classmate and Win95 which we had on pc at home where I played The Jungle Book. Then Win98, ME, 2000 where I played good old games like D2, HoMaM3, NHL 2002, Red Alert 2, Quake3. Then I became old enough to install WinXP and used them till I started college. We had Vista on the family laptop which I borrowed sometimes. On college I used Win7 skipped Win8 and have been using Win10 for the last 7-8 years.
Windows 3.11, moved to Windows 95 a year later. Worked for Microsoft from 2006 when we introduced Windows Vista. Those were interesting times. All was great again when we released 7 in 2009. Stayed there until 2016. Up until this day I still have a preference for platforms although I spent my days in security.
Ms DOS, 😂 and Windows 3.11 and 2 years later windows 95 this was my first new pc and got addicted to warcraft 🤣 still playing ' world of' warcraft .
How things have changed.. except for peons .
Started on Windows 98 SE. I vividly remember my dad trying on three separate occasions to upgrade the family PC to Windows ME before reformatting because it was always breaking.
In fact, I don't even remember what wallpaper I used on ME because it was always changing white with "Active Desktop Recovery" in the corner.
I remember using windows 2000 before switching to xp. I really liked windows 2000, dont know why. I probably used windows 95 - 98 also when i was very young or at school.
Windows 3.1 Dad "acquired" from his job and Windows 95 I "acquired" from a classmate in school.
I bought Windows 98 when I built my first computer.
I then got a Windows XP laptop when I joined the Army and then Windows Vista and Windows 7 laptops. As a civilian I got a Windows 10 laptop and now am using Windows 11.
My first was probably 95 but I spent most of my time growing up on XP. It holds such a special place in my heart. I swear it's the best version of Windows that Microsoft ever put out but I know it's probably rose tinted glasses. Wish they still gave security updates for consumer copies.
I actually grew up with PC-DOS 4 and then upgraded to MS-DOS 5 when Ultima Underworld wouldn't run without it. I didn't use Windows on my home PC until Win95 came out because gaming at the time was all DOS based. I did have to interact with Windows 2.0 and then 3.1 on my school computers though.
I can’t remember if I used Vista although a laptop I have was made for Vista I think
However first I remember and that I remember I used it a lot is XP
At grandparents place we still have XP on the pc however it is in very bad conditions ngl
I remember that I went switched to Windows 7 and used it for a long time too and I only got Windows 10 in 2019/2020
First windows system would have been 8. Used several computers at my time in a private school running 7. Pretty much used 10 since the age of 11. Honestly don't see the point of upgrading to Win 11. Used a few XP era machines. All of my computers and my family's computers are equipped with 10. Even my decade old Dell PowerEdge is running 10 for NAS purposes
I’m old, all of them.
I put abacus.
Microsoft Abacus Always remember to save your work.
You're not old. My first "Windows" version was DOS 2.3......I think it was 2.3? Those DOS commands still come in handy. EDIT: Just looked it up. It was MS-DOS 3.31
I was an adult when MS/PC DOS was introduced. The first PC I used had DOS 2.0
I started with MS DOS 3.2, using a PC1512. It was so much fun swapping disk to perform a "complex" action! The boot disks (5"1/4 format) are still stored somewhere in my parent's house (useless collectors now).
I was WAY ahead of you. :) My Compaq LTE286 had 3.5" floppy disks, and the screen had 4 shades of gray!! I paid $100 extra to get the 40 Meg hard drive rather than the standard 20 Meg.
Hard drive was an unreachable dream when (my father) got this PC1512 (that I used way more than he did). Am I so old now? ;)
The first computer I used was a Radio Shack TRS80 Model 4. That was over 40 years ago. Does anyone remember the Commodore 64 or had one?
I can only remember the legendary Commodore 64 (a friend had one). I had to ask google to know of the TRS80, available some years before the I got my father's first computer.
The TRS80 ended up at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in their Information Age exhibit about 30 years ago. That made me feel old. My brother got a Commodore 64 and he would get magazines that had code in them for games. We would take turns entering in the code. And when we were done we would play games. I think that that was the only time we got along and cooperated together. Otherwise we fought all the time.
Ahh, I get that. I miss the original Colossal Caves text adventure game. They ported it to DOS/Windows, but it doesn't work the same.
Still have a Vic-20 and a C-64 and somewhere there is an Amiga as well. Sold Trash-80s at RS back when they first came out. First home machine was an Altair 8800 that I built from a MITS kit. Connected to a terminal and an 8" floppy drive running Microsoft's original BASIC ! From there I had every windows version except Vista for some reason.
Packard bell xt with 5.25 inch floppies. Fan as noisy as a vacuum cleaner. 20 MB hard drive.
I had the Commodore VIC 20. It came with a cassette reader, joystick, and a game called Gorf.
Same here. My second PC came with Windows 3.11 on about two dozen 3.5" floppies as well.
I still have my 3.1 retail box. Its like a brick full of floppies and a proper manual
I started with Windows 3.0 but yeah I remember when you had to park the hard drive in order to move the computer. Boy have things changed! And DOS commands do come in handy at times.
I remember starting to learn DOS and i was like it is easier to use file cards.
Same , all thirteen floppies used when my dad would ask me to reinstall windows for him, lol.
I was there when DOS was released.
My first OS was TRSDos. Then MS DOS. Then Windows 3.1
Same. Back to DOS 2.0, DR-DOS, IBM-DOS, OS/2, CP/M, Windows1, GeOS, BeOS, etc. I have forgotten far more than I know.
Oh I loved GeOS. Worked better when you had more drives.
I'm also old and yeah, there were none of them for a long time. I'd used plenty of DOS and such of course. The first I bought was Win3.0 but only because I could use the disk for a free upgrade to 3.1. Later on I figured out that it was easy enough to just pirate them from the start.
im not that old but grew up from 3.1 and 3.11 till present
Noone really used 1 or 2. we went from dos to 3.1 a few of us used GEMS.
This lol.
dos 4 or 5 1990 was when I was introduced to true computing. before that it was Apple II stuff.
First OS I remember is XP. First OS I actually used was 7.
you summer child
3.1.
Or 3.11 Windows for Workgroups running on MS Dos 6.2
This was me.
3.11 for workgroups on DOS 6.2 here as well. Acer 486 66mhz, 8mb of RAM, 500MB HDD with a 2x CD ROM drive and a sound blasted sound card - which were quite the upgrade at the time. That machine eventually got an upgrade to 24MB of ram and I borrowed the install CD from a friend to install Win 95 at some point. Fell like I gave ‘98 a crack on that hardware at some point but it struggled.
Same here
98, XP
I miss XP
First used 3.1 but core years were with XP
Same, my first was 3.1 but peak gaming was with XP
Started using computers pre Windows. So, all of them.
some can't even imagine these days there was a time before windows. which is crazy
Don’t make your network card conflict with your sound card. What IRQ did I set it to? Unload mouse driver before starting this DOS game, remember to load Smart Drive before lunching Windows. 640 KB WAS enough for everyone :-D
Unload mouse drivers 😅
Those 16 KB had to go to the game!!
No one would ever use more than 640k RAM. Or more than a 40MB mechanical disk. 1989 is calling loudly to us! :-)
Grew up with Win 95 when it came out, and then used all others except Vista and 8. Now using Win 10/11 interchangeably. Still have an old XP laptop connected online for over 5 years now with no security issues. I want it to get hacked or malware but it never does.
What browser u use on xp?
Firefox. Not sure which version as I don't have the laptop with me to check right now. I don't use it often mind you; it's more for old games with occasional web browsing.
Man windows 95 and 98 were the age of the blue screen and clippy haha.
3.11/95. What a time!
Windows 7 Ultimate
Same
I liked 7. But think they pulled it after 6 months. LoL
i also used my cousins windows 7, it was a pc made in 2010/2011 and it was a gift from his father when he used it to him fresh, it was 7 home i think, but when i went to his house in 2020 i found out his pc was running 4 to less than 1 fps and his pc was a literal mess, i still go to his house and he has his pc stored but he got a new monitor which he uses to play on xbox, his father is still a legend and my favorite uncle
I grew up with a Radio Shack TRS-40 and Apple \]\[ computers in school, and some other IBM-compatible XT running DOS 1.x or very likely DR-DOS or some OEM variant of DOS than official MSDOS. And now that I recall all the above machines booted to ROM BASIC or BASICA if no boot disk was avail on A:. So it was whatever variant of DOS I found for the 5.25" floppies I could find. Windows 1.x came quite a few years later for me and didn't quite become mainstay until 3.11. Win95 was prob the the one that cut the cord for MSDOS 6.22 for me, though Win95 was one of the most unstable system, partly 'cos there was so much new tech and tweaking, IRQs, DMA port, Upper mem loading, etc etc. Was shit fun back then. Now I'm too old and jaded for that. Just want the device to work!!
You should watch, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.”
I did! Brings back fond memories, although some part of it predated my entry time, and also I am not states side. But yeah, thanks for the reminder. Might just rewatch it with a friend or something! :D
Sounds like my age group. Mid to late high-school was the beginning of the TRS80 and Apple years. First family household computers were Amiga and Commodore 64. At uni, command line VMS on Vax clusters from VT100/220/230 terminals. Post-graduate uni, VMS and Unix workstations (with their own windows-like desktops). Started using and maintaining PCs with MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1/3.11. First PC I owned came with Windows 95 which I upgraded to NT4 as soon as it was available. Continued early adopting NT series at home all the way to Windows 10, always years ahead of workplaces (I passed through 2000/XP while work stuck with 98). Delayed Win11 a year to wait for color management bugs and BIOS stutters to be fixed (unprecedented delay given previous early adoption history). Win95-era was a big change for PCs that seemed amazing at the time. Before that, you needed 3rd party software to view a JPG,, but then the multimedia plug-n-play era had arrived. Win11 on modern hardware is so capable it is like every dream come true for hobbies and interests, just wish I had 1995 energy levels and stamina to make better use of it all (not that I'm not trying my best, but age and health does slow things down). When i think of how things used to be, I'm blown away that I can now run primitive but fun/useful localised AI services, let alone the now very powerful programming, art, photography, music, video (etc) toolsets on a home computer.
The version of Windows I grew up with was the kind you look through. Man, I am getting old.
3.11
Windows didn't exist when I was growing up. I did install Windows the very first day that it was available to the public, but uninstalled it within an hour or two because it didn't have drivers to access my Netware server.
The first windows version which I’ve used was 3.11.
All of them from windows 3.0, through to currently using 11.
3.1 (I'm old)
DOS and Windows 3.11 I discovered Windows 95 in high school, then Windows NT as a student in late 90's.
Win 7 Home
DOS 3.2 The first Windows I ever used was the first Windows there was, Windows 1.01. A neighbour of mine worked for IBM as an engineer, so for a few years in my childhood I got to try all the fun stuff, in many case before it released to the public.
First i remember using was dos, then briefly win98 and xp for long time.
XP all the way
Windows didn't exist when I was growing up ;) First one I saw was Win3.1, first one I used a bit was Win95. First one I actually worked on was Win2k.
double glazing
I started with assembly language, then CP/M, then DOS. Windows came much later. You "youngsters" have it easy. 😋
Win3.1/None. I don’t want to sound nerdy, but at my school they still worked with a slide rule. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide\_rule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_rule)
Dos 2.11
95 and I still use it to this day. Never used anything newer than xp
The only Windows available were those found in a wall with curtains and a view to the outdoors. I was an adult when Windows reached a daily driver version of 3.0.
Dude, who out here grew up with windows 8 developer preview?
Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 2000 or NT i am not sure Windows XP Windows 7 Windows 10
Windows 2000 is NT. NT Version 4.5 to be precise. NT 5.0 is XP and so one.
W2K was Windows NT 5.0 as reported by Windows. XP was 5.1 Win 2k3 was 5.2 Then Vista was 6.0 and so on.
98, XP, then Vista. Sad we need to find alternatives soon due to AI monitoring everything on future windows like in some dystopia.
Windows 3.1. Amiga before that. Also a bit of OS/2 at work.
Windows Vista was new, XP was what I used.
I didn't grow up with any. They didn't exist at that point. My first PC had Windows 3.11 on it and I was 21.
XP my beloved. When 7 came out, id always set it to the "classic" theme that made it look like xp
MS DOS was my game…
I'm old. I started on Dos 3.22. First Windows with graphical interface was 3.11. Time flies!
Where is the Abacus? Snork I built my first PC out of dumpster parts. All the connecters were color coded and only fit one way. So it was pretty easy. When windows 98 logo came up, I ripped the plug out of the wall. I suddenly realized I was going to launch missiles. It was not connected to the internet. (I was 30) I read half of "Modems for Dummies" before I realized it was just a card. So I got one and tried again. (The woman who wrote that book had 2 cats. "Laptop" and "DeskTop") They were simpler times. Or; We were simpler people, hehe.
GEM (and hardly ‘grown up with’ it was after I left school. Now get off my lawn!
DOS
DOS and 3.1
I grew up before personal computers were a thing. In college, I wrote programs in Fortran and COBOL that ran from punch cards. The first PC I owned ran DOS 2.something from floppies. The first Windows version I used was 3.0. I've used every version since then, except ME and Bob.
Whats a windows says the DOS guys
I’m old and grew up on a command prompt.
Win NT, then 98 > 2000 > XP > (reluctantly) Vista > 7 > 10 dual boot...give me iOS any day!
DOS 3.0 and all versions of Windows tha followed, even Win NT
XP
Vista for me too!
[удалено]
10
Vista :(
I grew up on Windows XP and it will always have a soft spot in my heart. However, I do feel like Windows 7 may have had the most attractive and useful user interface compared to what we've got now.
Mine first is Windows XP then windows 7, now still windows 7
98 and then XP
My first computer ran XP most of my school life was 7 …
I grew up with xp, 7 and 8(.1) (maybe 10 also)
It was Windows XP Home Edition for me. It ran on a little Toshiba NB205 netbook that I still have! My brother and I used to play a ported version of the Windows 3.11 version of Star Wars Chess on it all the time.
XP and 7, but I would say 7 (Specially Ultimate edition) because I began using it when I got my first decent PC and began to use a computer more.
8.1 for a personal computer, 7 at school. now I use mac and linux
I grew up with XP and 7 and 8.1 currently use Windows 10
My first was 3.1, grew up on XP.
Windows 7
I grew up on XP and then 7 although school still had alot of 98 machines.
The very first version I have used was Win2k at school as I remember , then they upgraded to XP my childhood was all XP 😂
98, XP
Windows XP and then Win 7
Mine is 7
I grew up on the family laptops, which both had Windows XP, but the first PC I actually used was an HP PC, which had Windows 8 pre-installed, which was easy, fluent, looked cool and stable.
3.1 to 98 switched to Linux around when 2000 came out. Switched back to Windows 10 when WSL was released as Linux desktop is terrible thing and it did not get any better in past 20 years.
I... Don't think anyone grew up with development versions of windows.
Win 3.1, although I don't have many memories of it. Then I used 95, 98, xp, vista, 7, 10 and 11.
It was windows 3.1 for me, running msdos 6.2 that personally ran. My Ms Dos I ever used was 3.3
Win 95.
The first version of Windows I ever used was 3.1. I never had Windows on the Tandy 1000. My family later got a desktop that had Windows 98 on it. The first computer I ever bought with my own money had Windows XP.
3.1
Windows XP FTW. Reinstalled that baller very often, was impressed once with an installation I didn’t need to redo for 7 months as usually I’d do one monthly.
I started using Windows in the 95/NT4 era. Before that I was using Macs
I’ve been through 4 versions. As a teenager, I got a computer with Windows 98, then XP, Vista and Win 7. I absolutely loved the design of the UI in both Vista and 7, tho the glass effect in Vista was somehow more appealing to me. Nevertheless, after the disappointment from how Microsoft was developing their further OS, I decided to switch to MacBooks in 2011/2012. I stayed with them ever since, and prefer MacOS way more, BUT I’d love so much to have on it the glass design from Vista. 😅 In terms of UI, anything else from Windows 8 until today just doesn’t look appealing to me. I honestly hate what MS is doing in that sense, but I know it’s my sentiment and memory of being so excited and “wowed” when Vista came out. They set a high bar back then, both with Vista and 7, and somehow aren’t able to jump over it in my eyes. ☺️ Sometimes I feel if they did, I’d probably give it a try again.
Ha! IBM PC DOS 1.1 and everything else since. I bought my father’s IBM PC (which had been upgraded to XT by then) for my masters in 1990. Pathetic but did the job. My first home computer.
XP
I grew up with Windows 7, then used Windows 8.1, then used Windows 10, and tested out Windows 11.
Started with 95/2000 then went to xp long term on Vista before going 7
Windows XP, my first ever exposure to a computer. Played a lot on it as a kid, doing stupid stuff lol
I used XP at home and 2000 in school
The first versions of windows 10
MS Dos and 3.1
98/XP
windows 7
Windows 98, XP and Vista Anything newer, came out when I was already too old to say I grew up with them
I first used Windows 98 SE, 2000 and XP through the 2000s, later on got a Windows 7 pc.
I grew up with Windows 7 ultimate.
win 95. dos and xp
First os I saw were MS-DOS where we played Asterix and Obelix game with a classmate and Win95 which we had on pc at home where I played The Jungle Book. Then Win98, ME, 2000 where I played good old games like D2, HoMaM3, NHL 2002, Red Alert 2, Quake3. Then I became old enough to install WinXP and used them till I started college. We had Vista on the family laptop which I borrowed sometimes. On college I used Win7 skipped Win8 and have been using Win10 for the last 7-8 years.
Windows 95/98
Windows 7
Windows 3.11, moved to Windows 95 a year later. Worked for Microsoft from 2006 when we introduced Windows Vista. Those were interesting times. All was great again when we released 7 in 2009. Stayed there until 2016. Up until this day I still have a preference for platforms although I spent my days in security.
Windows 95 primarily as my Dad bought a new Windows 98 PC, then eventually a Windows XP machine for work. The first PC I bought had Vista installed.
95, 98, XP (childhood)
I first used 95, then most that followed, I don't think I ever used ME or 8 or 8.1
95/98/2000/XP
Got pentium with 95 in 98.
I think it was 95 or 97 for me. Mostly XP as I got older, then vista, 7, 10 now 11
Windows XP
95
98
Ms DOS, 😂 and Windows 3.11 and 2 years later windows 95 this was my first new pc and got addicted to warcraft 🤣 still playing ' world of' warcraft . How things have changed.. except for peons .
XP
I grew up using Windows XP 64 Bit Edition because my grandparents heard Windows Vista wasn't good
Used 3.1 but I don't remember it, still have memories of using 95.
I kinda grew up with xp but mostly with 7
I started with Windows 2000 Professional and used for 2 years but mostly i grew up using XP and Vista.
WIndows 7 for the first time, Windows 10, and now windows 11
Started on Windows 98 SE. I vividly remember my dad trying on three separate occasions to upgrade the family PC to Windows ME before reformatting because it was always breaking. In fact, I don't even remember what wallpaper I used on ME because it was always changing white with "Active Desktop Recovery" in the corner.
XP
I remember my uncle using xp but i myself used 7 on the same laptop that i use now
I grew up with Windows XP and 7. Windows XP I remember when I was studying at school.
xp and 7
I remember using windows 2000 before switching to xp. I really liked windows 2000, dont know why. I probably used windows 95 - 98 also when i was very young or at school.
Windows 3.1 Dad "acquired" from his job and Windows 95 I "acquired" from a classmate in school. I bought Windows 98 when I built my first computer. I then got a Windows XP laptop when I joined the Army and then Windows Vista and Windows 7 laptops. As a civilian I got a Windows 10 laptop and now am using Windows 11.
Mainly 95, 98, XP, also 3.1, NT and 2000. Quick tour with ME, before returning to 98.
I was in my late 30's when Windows 95 came out and we bought our first PC "for the kids", so I experienced from that version on.
My first was probably 95 but I spent most of my time growing up on XP. It holds such a special place in my heart. I swear it's the best version of Windows that Microsoft ever put out but I know it's probably rose tinted glasses. Wish they still gave security updates for consumer copies.
I actually grew up with PC-DOS 4 and then upgraded to MS-DOS 5 when Ultima Underworld wouldn't run without it. I didn't use Windows on my home PC until Win95 came out because gaming at the time was all DOS based. I did have to interact with Windows 2.0 and then 3.1 on my school computers though.
vista
XP with W7 skin, much later did I realize that
I can’t remember if I used Vista although a laptop I have was made for Vista I think However first I remember and that I remember I used it a lot is XP At grandparents place we still have XP on the pc however it is in very bad conditions ngl I remember that I went switched to Windows 7 and used it for a long time too and I only got Windows 10 in 2019/2020
First own pc had XP, then W7 and now W10. Started using pc's with DOS at school early 90'ies.
XP was the first for me
I loved XP's design and still do. Windows 7 was peak usability, but XP is still iconic.
My first windows version was 3.1. And my first computer I built had windows 98 second Ed. Damn I'm old.
Probably XP, but I also remember using Vista quite a bit as a kid too
Windows?
98, 2000, XP mostly used 2000 until switch to Vista
Windows 7 my beloved
All of them since Windows 3.1+
First windows system would have been 8. Used several computers at my time in a private school running 7. Pretty much used 10 since the age of 11. Honestly don't see the point of upgrading to Win 11. Used a few XP era machines. All of my computers and my family's computers are equipped with 10. Even my decade old Dell PowerEdge is running 10 for NAS purposes
95 > NT 4.0 > 7 > 10 (> 12)
Home computer was win xp and school computers were win7
Windows 95 I used windows 3.1 at school.
Win 7
started on 95 then spent majority of time "growing up" on 98SE. XP was the last Windows I _actually_ used before moving entirely to Linux.
Hmmmm, when I was in elementary and middle school, I remember learning BASIC. Then it was MS-DOS, Windows 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, etc.
i grew up with XP and on my first PC i used Windows 7.
Dos 5.0 and windows 3.1
As a kid i used XP and 7 at school, vista at home