Version Updated: Windows First

When users finally installed Windows 1.0 from floppy disks onto a machine with a minimum of 256KB of RAM, they were greeted not by the "Start" button or a desktop full of icons, but by a program called . This was the primitive file manager and application launcher. It was a far cry from the friendly "Program Manager" of later versions. Below the surface, however, lay the foundational concepts that would define Windows for decades.