Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MSDOS Windows 2.x
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- Windows 2.0 April 1987 build, find out more below.
- OS/2 and Windows 2.x shared some development time, and have a very similar UI.
- Tandy Trower, the manager who succeeded in shipping Windows 1.x after everyone else had failed, was tasked with working on this same project, so that Microsoft’s Application Group could work on a new version of Word and Excel.
- Trower suggested that they created a separate team who also employed real graphics designers, rather than simply software developers.
- This team worked so well that they ended up influencing the usability of many Microsoft products, and even the full overhaul in Windows 95.
The Creation of Windows 2.0Despite what you may imagine from how history went afterward, Microsoft was fully aware of how MSDOS was starting to be inadequate for current and future computing, espe [+8431 chars]
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