Windows 2.0

Windows 2.0
Windows 2.0
Part of the Microsoft Windows family
Windows 1.0 logo.svg
Windows 2.0.png
Screenshot of Windows 2.0
Developer
Microsoft
Website http://www.microsoft.com/
Releases
Release date December 9, 1987[info]
Current version 2.03 (1988; 22 years ago (1988))[info]
Source model Closed source
License MS-EULA
Preceded by Windows 1.0
Succeeded by Windows 2.1x
Support status
Unsupported as of December 31, 2001

Windows 2.0 is a 16-bit Microsoft Windows GUI-based operating environment that was released on December 9, 1987 [1] and is the successor to Windows 1.0. With Windows 2.1x in 1988, Windows 2.0 was supplemented by Windows/286 and Windows/386. Windows 2.0, Windows/286 and Windows/386 were superseded by Windows 3.0 in May 1990, but supported by Microsoft for fourteen years until December 31, 2001.

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History

Application support

The first Windows versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel ran on Windows 2.0. Third-party developer support for Windows increased substantially with this version (some shipped the Windows Runtime software with their applications, for customers who had not purchased the full version of Windows). However, most developers still maintained DOS versions of their applications, as Windows users were still a distinct minority of their market.

There were some applications that shipped with Windows 2.0. They are:

Legal conflict with Apple

On March 17, 1988, Apple filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, accusing them of violating copyrights Apple held on the Macintosh System Software[2]. Apple claimed the "look and feel" of the Macintosh operating system, taken as a whole, was protected by copyright and that Windows 2.0 violated this copyright by having the same icons.

Features

Windows 2.0 allowed application windows to overlap each other unlike its predecessor Windows 1.0, which could display only tiled windows. Windows 2.0 also introduced more sophisticated keyboard-shortcuts and the terminology of "Minimize" and "Maximize", as opposed to "Iconize" and "Zoom" in Windows 1.0.

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