Windows 1.0 (Premier Edition) Review

Hello, this is Lolo, today we have an old one. Windows 1.0 (Premier Edition) just let it be known that this IS the original Windows 1.0 and not 1.01. But, we will start with the installer, pretty basic, nothing fancy or even colored for that matter but it does the job. Here is a picture of the welcome screen.

As you can see it is really basic. The next picture shows the "Where to Install" folder selection screen.

Now for the sake of the length of this article the next image I will include will be the "How to boot into Windows for the First Time" picture. Here it is:

After you install to start Windows 1.0 you boot a DOS boot disk and move to the C:\Windows default directory. Then, you type win to start the MS-DOS Executive of which there is a picture of here:

There are a couple of applications including:

• Paint
• Notepad
• Calculator
• and finally, Reversi

I won't show pictures of those applications here because this article is already pretty long and you can find pictures of those all over the net. But, for the second to last picture let's see a picture of the about box! Here it is:

And now for the final picture and the rating. Here is the picture the rating is after it:

Now for the rating...I have a hard time rating an operating system as old as Windows 1.0 because it could be amazing or horrid at the time of it's release but as of now it is really complicated to used, has extremely limited drivers and a small feature set. So for the rating: 2 out of 5. It is possible to use and that is why it didn't get a 1 out of 5 but I am not grading based on what happened 26 years ago when this came out. I am grading based on what I think of it now!

This has been a Lolo review. Thank You for Reading.