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The Windows 2 April 1987 Build is the earliest known build of Windows 2 (1987). Still using Windows 1’s (1985) colour scheme, it showcases 2’s new window controls & full support for overlapping windows. This replaced the tiled windows in Windows 1 that users had found confusing.

24/12/24, 8:25 pm2 reposts46 likes

Susie

@susiedeltarune.bsky.social

25 Dec 2024

God I feel bummed none of these are leaked like we need a massive Microsoft leak That Just Dropped every pre-release Versions of Windows

solongmusk

@solongmusk.bsky.social

24 Dec 2024

RISC OS 1 (“Arthur 1.20” as it was known at the time) had a strikingly similar interface, but was released only five months later, so that’d be impressively quick work if it was a rip-off, so one presumes there was some background cross-pollination of ideas in the mid-to-late-1980s GUI space…