2005 marks the 20th anniversary of Windows 1.0:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/01/2005-twenty-years-of-windows.html
This is a companion discussion topic for the original blog entry at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/01/2005-twenty-years-of-windows.html
What a coincidence! My first Windows was 3.1 and I was coming from Amiga background. I was a bit strange I guess because my first computer was not a Commodore 64 but Sinclair ZX Spectrum 
Microsoft Releases Box Set of Rarities and Oldies
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/09/microsoft_box_set.html?from=rss
Funny, but I’d actually buy something like this. 
Here’s a massive, in-depth PC Magazine overview of the last 20 years of Windows:
Microsoft ACTUALLY RELEASED A REAL BOX SET OF WINDOWS RARITIES AND OLDIES… in Japan!
More 20 year factoids about Windows:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2005/11/20/happy-birthday-windows/