Microsoft Windows

1987 · operating-system · Windows · MS-DOS · Microsoft

Microsoft Windows Version 2.0 This is an operating system which creates a user-space on top of real-mode DOS for running graphical programs, including the Presentation Manager graphical user interface which was co-developed with IBM. It was released by Microsoft in 1987. Compared with later versions of Windows, Windows 2.0 was not commercially successful. The installer may ask you for Microsoft Write. The image of those disks can be found here: https://archive.org/details/microsoft-windows-write-v2.0 The ZIP file includes eight 5.25" 360K floppy disk images created with a raw read utility in an MS-DOS computer with a standard 5.25" floppy disk drive. The disks contain the FAT12 file system and as such can be read natively by any Disk Operating System. Pictures of the media are included in the archive.