Windows 1.01 in Your Browser (opens in new tab)

By the way, that runs best in Firefox, due to OdinMonkey providing ahead-of-time asm.js compilation. If you have issues with Chrome, try that.

(I should really add that to the site. Hmm.)

Unfortunately launching Internet Explorer crashed the emulator in both Firefox and Chrome.

93 was better http://www.windows93.net/

And flat UI elements. And you interact with a single program that takes up most of the screen. The more things change...

Although, back in the day, I think we would have called that icon a "grip" since it appears to have been styled after a grip floor. In fact, I still call that icon a grip because it looks more like a grip than a hamburger. I've never eaten a hamburger that has three floating equal layers.

https://www.google.com/search?q=grip+floor&source=lnms&tbm=i...

You can if you want to! Close Windows and you are at the DOS command prompt. From there, you can do "anything"... like write a better OS, perhaps?

Absolutely terrifying w/ sound hah.

They were not competing. Microsoft has always put phenomenal effort into backwards compatibility. Windows was constrained to work with DOS, your DOS device drivers, and most importantly your DOS apps. The majority of initial PC buyers were businesses, and those apps mattered. The last time I tried, the MSDOS 1.0 version of Visicalc (1982) still ran under Windows.

By contrast the Mac didn't provide any Apple 2 backwards compatibility (although I believe one Mac model had an add on board, and there was the IIgs). Windows and the Mac were competing in different dimensions (backwards compatible, hardware & software variety versus green field new platform).

TopView - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_TopView - GEM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager - and to a lesser extent Desqview and similar were the competition for Windows, until later OS/2 was as well.

This is why everyone still used DOS. Mac OS was bloated and slow as well. It was certainly the future but the 128k wasn't nearly enough. 512k made it better but it was still years away from living up to the hype.

Until OS X, laughable. iOS has done exponentially more for Apple than OS X has or ever will.

> at least until OS X. (I couldn't resist)

I must be alone in the world but I actually dislike OS X a lot. I had been forced to work with Mac OS in several iterations of my life (I believe my earlier contact with Mac OS was with 7.6 on a Performa) and OS X had been one of the poorest. If Ubuntu weren't that buggy (it just tires me to be fixing video cards problems on every update) it would be years ahead in overal experience in comparison with OS X.