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What was the first version of Windows you used, when it was still current?

For me, it was Windows 3.1. It was 1994, and my parents' business needed a computer for accounting and inventory management. They had one built, a true FULL tower (like, a 3' tall case), with a 486. It ran 3.1 and Corel WordPerfect for word processing, and I think it may have used an early version of Quickbooks. Since I was the young, tech savvy one in the family, it was my job to be their IT. In a couple of years we needed to upgrade it, which I did with the help of a friend, to an AMD based system running Windows 95.


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Reply by Josh

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I remember being 4 or maybe a bit younger and we had an old beige Gateway computer that was running Windows 98 most likely. Then my parents got a Dell Dimension E310 that came with XP in 2006. Granted I was 4 when my parents bought said computer. Didn't use it much until after it got upgraded to Windows 7. However I did get a Dell Dimension 2350 and it was my first personal computer that was primarily used by me. It ran XP and I used for about 3-4 years until my grandparents gave me a old netbook running Windows 7 Starter. But yeah. XP was my starting point that I actually remembered lol.


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Reply by 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝

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Some of the computers at my primary school used Windows 3.0 and 3.1, so it would have to be one of those. Neither of them were current at the time though. The earliest version of Windows I used while it was still current was XP when my dad bought our first PC back in 2001/02.


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Reply by lego

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started on windows 3.1, slowly after upgraded to 95


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Reply by delicious2003

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My first Windows version was Windows XP when I started to learn computer and Windows usage in a school. However, when I was 10 my cousin gave me an Azer which came with Windows 7, and some months after that I broke it. Then my mother bought me a Toshiba with Windows 8 which I still have, I installed Vista on that computer so I now have two computers, one with Windows Vista and another with Windows 10.


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Reply by Samuel Travis

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Windows 3.1 back in the 90s. at school we had Windows 98 all the way up to 2005.


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Reply by spidergaming8

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I remember being 3-4 on my family gateway computer playing some game on windows vista  


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Reply by pheirah

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I was a windows 2000 baby.


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Reply by Brian2011

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The first Windows version i used was Windows XP when i was 4-5 in a desktop pc, then i got a Windows Vista laptop (which i loved and it ran smoothly) and i upgraded to Windows 7 later on, and when Windows 10 came out it automatically was forced to install in my laptop which ruined the performance, now that laptop has Windows Vista again because of it's smooth and fast, but i now have a new laptop with Windows 11.


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Reply by legitscarce

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first pc i used was a dell which ran windows xp which was upgraded to vista not long after, eventually around 2010-2011 i got a windows 7 laptop which i used for years before getting a new  laptop with windows 8.1 on it, got the upgrade to windows 10 which i have used since upgrading (new laptop)


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I don't remember it that much, but I think it was Windows Vista because of the wallpaper colors i remember (yellow and green), but i might be wrong.


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Reply by Galactipod

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The first Windows OS I remember using while it was still current was Windows 7, but I also remember using my grandparents' computer which was running Vista long after it became outdated. When I was a toddler I had my own Windows XP machine... again, long after it was outdated. I fantasize about running a home server on an early-2000s OS, maybe Windows Server 2003, but my current home server just runs Windows 10.


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Reply by xxRebellious_Emmaxx

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For me, it was Windows 7 on the family laptop. I also remember the desktops in my elementary school' computer lab being a mix of Windows XP and Windows 7 computers.


Currently, I'm on a Windows 10 personal laptop.


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Reply by Ice Cube Productions

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I was really young back in 2011 and I remember it was Windows XP. Then in 2012 I upgraded to Windows 7 PC from HCL which also had an widescreen LCD Monitor

Now I have bought a new PC with Windows 10 but still using that old Monitor


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Reply by Ollie

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since I first had access to the operating system I had windows XP on a samsung N150 laptop, that operating system was with me until mid-2019 when my parents upgraded it to windows 7 (I miss windows XP, I'm currently on windows 10)


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Reply by Plzgamer

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I remember when I was little, my dad using Windows XP in the family computer when I was playing friv games

What a good time


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Reply by xX_cl0ckw0rkc0rv1dae_Xx

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vista back in 2008, my dad had just gotten a new family pc running it so some of my earliest memories are of purble place and mahjong lol


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Reply by mjdxp

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started with windows XP, used it for around a decade probably. still my favorite, its simplicity and ease of use is something i miss from modern windows


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Reply by Lucas Michael

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Back in pre-school they would allow students to use the school computers after school ended.

they were all using windows 8.


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