OK, I got tired of looking up these timelines in dozens of different places, so I decided to put together my own.
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DOS |
Windows |
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| PC-DOS 1.0 | 08/81 | Windows 1.01 | 11/85 | |
| MS-DOS 1.25 | 02/82 | Windows 1.03 | 08/86 | |
| MS-DOS 2.0 | 03/83 | Windows 1.04 | 04/87 | |
| MS-DOS 2.01 | 11/83 | Windows 2.03 | 11/87 | |
| MS-DOS 2.11 | 12/83 | Windows 2.10 | 05/88 | |
| MS-DOS 2.25 | 04/84 | Windows 2.11 | 03/89 | |
| MS-DOS 3.0 | 09/84 | Windows 3.0 | 05/90 | |
| MS-DOS 3.1 | 10/84 | Windows 3.0a | 10/90 | |
| MS-DOS 3.2 | 04/86 | Windows 3.1 | 04/92 | |
| MS-DOS 3.21 | 04/87 | Windows for Workgroups 3.1 | 10/92 | |
| MS-DOS 3.3 | 04/87 | Windows for Workgroups 3.11 | 12/93 | |
| MS-DOS 3.31 | 04/87 | Windows 3.11 | 12/93 | |
| MS-DOS 4.0 | 07/88 | Windows 95 | 08/95 | |
| MS-DOS 4.01 | 11/88 | Windows 95 OSR 1 | 12/95 | |
| MS-DOS 4.01a | 04/89 | Windows 95 OSR 2 | 10/96 | |
| MS-DOS 5.0 | 04/91 | Windows 95 OSR 2.1 | 06/97 | |
| MS-DOS 5.0a | 10/91 | Windows 98 | 06/98 | |
| MS-DOS 6.0 | 03/93 | Windows 98 SE | 05/99 | |
| MS-DOS 6.2 | 11/93 | Windows ME | 09/00 | |
| MS-DOS 6.21 | 03/94 | |||
| MS-DOS 6.22 | 04/94 | |||
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Windows NT |
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| NT 3.1 | 08/93 |
| NT 3.1 SP 1 | 10/93 |
| NT 3.1 SP 2 | ?? |
| NT 3.1 SP 3 | 10/94 |
| NT 3.5 | 09/94 |
| NT 3.5 SP 3? | 06/95 |
| NT 3.51 | 06/95 |
| NT 3.51 SP 1 | ?? |
| NT 3.51 SP 2 | 10/95 |
| NT 3.51 SP 3 | 12/95 |
| NT 3.51 SP 4 | 03/96 |
| NT 3.51 SP | 5 10/96 |
| NT 4.0 | 07/96 |
| NT 4.0 SP 1 | 10/96 |
| NT 4.0 SP 2 | 12/96 |
| NT 4.0 SP 3 | 05/97 |
| NT 4.0 Option Pack | 12/97 |
| NT 4.0 SP 4 | 12/98 |
| NT 4.0 SP 5 | 06/99 |
| NT 4.0 SP 6 | 10/99 |
| NT 4.0 SP 6a | 12/99 |
| W2K | 02/00 |
| W2K SP1 | 07/00 |
| W2K SP2 | 05/01 |
| XP | ??/00 |
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Microsoft Visual Basic |
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| Basic Pro Magazine | 02/91 |
| VB 1.0 | 05/91 |
| MS Professional Toolkit for VB | 03/92 |
| VB 2.0 | 11/92 |
| Visual Control Pack (VB 2.0) | 02/93 |
| First VBits | 03/93 |
| VB 3.0 | 05/93 |
| Basic Pro Magazine -> VBPJ | 7/93 |
| VB 4.0 | 09/95 |
| VB 5.0 | 03/97 |
| VB 6.0 | 10/98 |
| VBPJ -> VSM | 09/01 |
| Microsoft Basics | |
| MS Basic Compiler (Copyright IBM and MS) |
05/82 |
| QB 1.0 | ??/85 |
| QB 2.0 | 06/86 |
| QB 3.0 | 03/87 |
| QB 4.0 | 10/87 |
| QB 4.5 | 09/88 |
| PDS 7.0 | 11/89 |
| PDS 7.1 | 06/90 |
| GameShop (QB 4.5) | 10/90 |
| VB DOS (PDS 8.0) | 08/92 |