Windows 2.x release date

ibmpc5150

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... on-history

I read the article about "Windows Version History" on Microsoft Support.

Of course, no "Windows Premiere Edition" is mentioned.

But I wonder what the date "5/27/88" of 2.10 means.
According to Wiki, release date is also mentioned as "5/27/88"

Unfortunately no early version of 2.10 version has found.
(I guess early time stamp is 07/01/1988)

So is this information correct?
I can't say the answer is yes or no.
It is up to Microsoft.

Anyway, I don't believe the date "5/27/88" is released date for 2.10

SomeGuy

Split topic because this is an interesting question on its own (and not directly on topic to the old thread)

Anyway, some of the Windows 2.x release dates are indeed very vague and could use clarification. Oddly none of the pre-releases have surfaced, and one may note that no "2.00" has ever surfaced. There was a box on eBay a while back that claimed to be "2.02", that was apparently a very, very short lived release.

There very well may have been unlabeled repackaging/respins of 2.10, which is more confused by the split in to Windows/286 (that despite the name includes 8088), and Windows/386.

menage

That was the announcement date, i.e. the Friday before Memorial Day in the United States. A good way to get an extensive amount of coverage since everything else will be closed for the long weekend. The July 4, 1988 Infoworld issue covers the introductory show for Windows 2.1 which is listed as occurring the week before. That suggests the show was in mid June given that Infoworld issues shipped a week or two prior to cover date.

The actual listed dates on the disks will be different and I think Win 286 2.1 and Win 386 2.1 had different dates.

ibmpc5150

I guess first release of Windows 2.0x is 2.01 (386).

In 2012, I found version 2.01 (386) on any ftp site.
But it was Not verified and needed verification, because I needed to check all files are ok.)
(It was dumped in 2011.)

I bought the Windows 2.0 (386) diskettes with good price in 2014.
Wow, dumped diskette version was 2.01 and verified finally.

Unfortunately the link still doesn't mention about version 2.01.

>The actual listed dates on the disks will be different and I think Win 286 2.1 and Win 386 2.1 had different dates.

I know the following.


*Windows 2.10 (286)

1) 5.25" 1.2MB
Disk 1 / Disk 3 <-- (07/20/1988)
Disk 2 / Disk 4 <-- (07/01/1988)

2) 5.25" 1.2MB
Disk 1 / Disk 2 / Disk 3 <-- (09/07/1988)
Disk 4 <-- (07/01/1988)

3) 3.5" 720KB
Disk 1 / Disk 2 / Disk 3 / Disk 4 <-- (09/07/1988)
Disk 5 / Disk 6 / Disk 7 <-- (07/01/1988)


*Windows 2.10 (386)

1) 5.25" 1.2MB
Disk 1 / Disk 2 / Disk 3 / Disk 4 <-- (07/01/1988)

2) 3.5" 720KB
Disk 1 / Disk 2 / Disk 3 / Disk 4 <-- (09/07/1988)
Disk 5 / Disk 6 <-- (07/01/1988)