>>>Microsoft Windows turned 30 today... dang I feel old.
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>>I recall back in the early '81, beta testing the first version of Windows. My judgement at the time was it would never succeeded. The screen were still text based at the time. It finally took off after 3.0 (3.1) for them to get a workable version. Now I am showing my age.
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>For all practical purposes, I stayed with DOS till Win 95 came along.
>Once I saw Win 95 in action, DOS was history.

I didn't start using any windowing products until QuarterDeck's DESQview arrived. The only time I worked with MS Windows was when the client wanted to.