>i never used win1 - did anyone? i did use win2, Some users were exposed to the early versions of Windows 1.0 and 2.0 because they were "bundled as runtimes" f

>i never used win1 - did anyone? i did use win2, Some users were exposed to the early versions of Windows 1.0 and 2.0 because they were "bundled as runtimes" for some applications. Aldus Pagemaker was an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker#:~:text=Aldus%20Pagemaker%202.0%20was%20released,the%20application%20from%20MS%2DDOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_PageMaker#:~:text=Aldus%.... So consumers weren't necessarily going out of their way to buy Windows 1.0 as a separate item and then later installing apps on it. This was also similar to how a competing GUI like Digital Research GEM was distributed where people didn't make it a deliberate purchase. Instead, Ventura Publisher included it as a runtime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura#:~:text=It%20ran%20under%20an%20included%20run%2Dtime%20copy%20of%20Digital%20Research%27s%20GEM.%5B1%5D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corel_Ventura#:~:text=It%20ran...