That’s because, according to Brooks, the tools needed to extract a bitmap file from an NE (new executable file format) didn’t exist when Windows 1.0 was released.

As we learn more about Windows 11, let's take a look back and how the operating system has changed. Windows 1.0 Release date: November 1985 Key features: Microsoft moves away from MS-DOS with its ...

Microsoft releases version 1.0 of the open-source Windows Terminal application following a year of development. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer May 20, 2020 at 5:11 a.m. PT ...

Microsoft “re-released” Windows 1.0 this week as part of a partnership with that Stranger Things show I have yet to binge on Netflix. While it’s fre ...

According to self-styled Windows archeologist Lucas Brooks, there’s a short list of Windows development team members encrypted into a bitmap file in the original Windows 1.0 release.

Windows 3.1 was the first version of Windows to have a modular Control Panel. You could add new panels to the window shown here simply by copying a special CPL file into the Windows system folder.

As you can see in Figure 1, when you boot the Windows 1.11 app, the first thing you will see is a progress bar that is displayed as the system takes you back to 1985. [Click on image for larger view.] ...