Upgrading from Windows 1.0 to Windows 7

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One man has captured every install of Windows from 1.0 through to 7 and shared it with the world via YouTube.

The video details install processes and the UI for each version of Windows over the past 25 years and most importantly the upgrade process. The only exception is Windows ME, missing as you can only upgrade to ME or 2000 and not both. The video creator, Andrew Tait, used VMWare to install each version and started by installing MS-DOS 5.0 to prepare for the Windows 1.0 installation. Monkey Island and Doom 2 are both installed to test upgrade compatibility throughout the years.
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http://www.winrumors.com/man-upgrades-windows-1-0-to-windows-7-via-every-other-windows-versions/
 
Will Doom 2 still work in Vista ands 7? He didn't try.
 
The man must of had a lot of time! I remember the nightmare upgrade from DOS 6 with Windows 3.11 -> Win 95. A grand total of 44 stiffy disks and a good few hours later...
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That was a fascinating video - I only used windows from 3.0 onwards - went from DOS50.0 to win 3.0 - nostalgia (especially those install screens)
 
cleask said:
The man must of had a lot of time! I remember the nightmare upgrade from DOS 6 with Windows 3.11 -> Win 95. A grand total of 44 stiffy disks and a good few hours later...
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I remember Windows 95 and all those friekin' stiffies. Then you get to disk 22 or something and...CORRUPT!
 
This is the kind of pointless information that i love about the Internet.

What a dark and low-res grueling journey it must have been in the beginning.

And then God said let there be 3d graphics with its fancy polygons/mip mapping and pixel shaders.

Love it!
 
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