Windows 2.x

Windows 2.x is a graphical personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft. It was said to look almost the same to the first Mac OS and more closely matched Microsoft's pre-release publicity for Windows 1.0.

Windows 2.x
DeveloperMicrosoft
OS familyMicrosoft Windows
Source modelClosed source
Released to
manufacturing
December 9, 1987 (1987-12-09)
Latest release2.11 / March 14, 1989 (1989-03-14)[1]
LicenseMS-EULA
Preceded byWindows 1.0 (1985)
Succeeded byWindows 3.0 (1990)
Official websitehttp://www.microsoft.com/
Support status
Unsupported as of December 31, 2001

Windows 2.1x

Five months after the release of Windows 2.03, Microsoft released Windows 2.10, and after 10 months, Windows 2.11. They were the first versions that required an Intel 80286 or 80386 processor to run.

Other websites

Preceded by
Windows 1.0
DOS-Based Microsoft Windows Succeeded by
Windows 3.0
  1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/32905
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