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Windows 2.0
(Part of the Microsoft Windows family)
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Windows 2.0 was the first version to support free-moving overlapping windows
Developer
Microsoft
Release information
Release date:November 1 1987 [citation needed]
Current version: 2.03, November 1987 info
Source model:Closed source
License:Microsoft EULA
Kernel type:N/A
Support status
Unsupported as of December 31 2001
Windows 2.0 is a version of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface-based operating environment that superseded Windows 1.0. Windows 2.0 was said to more closely match Microsoft's pre-release publicity for Windows 1.0 than Windows 1.0 did.

New features

Windows 2.0 allowed application windows to overlap each other, unlike its predecessor Windows 1.0, which could only display 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.

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.

Legal conflict with Apple

Main article: Apple_v._Microsoft


On March 17 1988, Apple filed suit against Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, accusing them of violating copyrights Apple held on the Macintosh System Software.[1] 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 looking extremely similar to the original Mac OS.

Relation to other Windows releases

Windows 2.0 was supplemented by Windows/286 and Windows/386 in 1988. Windows 2.0, Windows/286 and Windows/386 were superseded by Windows 3.0 in May 1990.

References

1. ^ 1980 – 1989: An Industrial Milestone. The Apple Museum. Retrieved on 2006-06-25.

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Windows 2.1x
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Release date: May 27 1988 info
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Windows 2.1x
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Windows 3.0
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Release date: May 22 1990 info
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