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Season 2024
2023 was an incredible year for the channel, and we are deeply grateful to all of you for watching, sharing, liking, and commenting on the videos. Your feedback on what you liked as well
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2023 was an incredible year for the channel, and we are deeply grateful to all of you for watching, sharing, liking, and commenting on the videos. Your feedback on what you liked as well as what we could improve, has been invaluable.
In this video we briefly review the channel's growth, as well as discuss our plans and goals for 2024, what our main bottlenecks in production are, and what videos are currently in the pipeline.
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Season finale
The Rise of Microsoft Windows Part 2: Windows 2x
Episode overview
After many delays and becoming the butt of many industry jokes, Windows 1 had finally staggered onto the market at the end of 1985. It was met by basically complete indifference, as it
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After many delays and becoming the butt of many industry jokes, Windows 1 had finally staggered onto the market at the end of 1985. It was met by basically complete indifference, as it performed poorly on most people's computers, and lacked any sort of compelling software to kickstart adoption and thereby drive more interest from software developers and users alike.
But Microsoft pressed on with the followup, Windows 2. Although most of Microsoft's time and attention was focused on their partnership with IBM to develop a shiny new operating system, OS/2, and in spite of the fact that Steve Ballmer and others inside of Microsoft saw no point in continuing to develop the successor to the original Windows release, Bill Gates refused to call a halt to its development.
Windows 2's story is a complex one, and IBM, OS/2, and OS/2's GUI Presentation Manager weave in and out of it at various points, together with Apple, HP, Compaq, and others.
It's development was also further complicated
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