Windows 1.0 had a lot of familiar items It included Calculator, Paint, Notepad, Write, Terminal, Clock, Reversi and utilities such as Clipboard and Print Spooler.

Windows 1.x and 2.x failed to make much of a dent, but 1990’s Windows 3.0 was a hit, and it came preinstalled on many consumer PCs; Microsoft and IBM broke off their partnership shortly ...

A few years later, Microsoft released Windows 1.0 in 1985. It wasn't yet tradition to include a credits page as an Easter egg, which might've been why the Windows team hid theirs well-enough that ...