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Template:Infobox WindowsBuild Windows Premiere Edition is a preliminary release of Windows 1.0, which shipped to testers in 1985-07-30 to provide an early look at the Windows product, before the final product was finished and ready to be shipped.

Quoting Tandy Trower (Microsoft Windows 1.0 product manager): "But by the early summer of 1985, we were still not close to being done, so Steve declared we should release a preliminary release that I dubbed the "Premiere Edition", which we provided to key application vendors, analysts, and members of the press for feedback and in partial fulfillment of Ballmer’s promise to ship the product that summer." Source: [1]

According to Trower, the memory management code of the operating system needed to be rewritten at a later point in development:

"Then just at the point I was starting to feel more optimistic about wrapping things up the architect of the memory management code told me he found a critical defect in its design and would need to re-write it, basically rendering all testing to date useless. I pleaded with him to find an easier way, but after a thorough discussion there was no option other than to let him proceed and restart the testing process."

Shown below is a copy of the fourth disk, with updated files from between October 23rd and October 28th, 1985, which were likely provided to testers for further evaluation prior to the product's release.

Alias' copy

A picture of the floppy disk set of this and a screenshot of the Windows logo screen were provided by a user named Alias, who eventually provided the site with a well preserved and fully original copy, currently provided to visitors as a BetaArchive exclusive..

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-Premeire Edition 1.00 is the only known build of Microsoft Windows Premeire Edition 1.00 to have been released. It was originally released on the Euro-Asian Beta Group by betaguy224 (Hiroshi Nakamura) and OBrasilo (Joao de Comoes). Later, it was released on BetaArchive by unblestone, who got it from Namronia (Norman Koch).
+{{Infobox WindowsBuild
+|caption = Windows Premiere Edition
+|image = Rd2.png
+|kernel = 1.0
+|arch = x86 (16-bit)
+|bios = 1985-07-31
+|tcb_build = [https://thecollectionbook.info/builds/windows/build/17 TCB Build Page]
+|tcb_gallery = [https://www.thecollectionbook.info/gallery/?f=/windows/16-bit%20kernel/windows%201.x/premiere%20edition/english TCB Gallery Page]
+}}
+'''Windows Premiere Edition''' is a preliminary release of [[Windows 1.0]], which shipped to testers in 1985-07-30 to provide an early look at the Windows product, before the final product was finished and ready to be shipped.
-There is very little difference in this build from Microsoft Windows 1.01, however, it only comes on four disks, is smaller and lacks Windows Write.
+'''''Quoting Tandy Trower (Microsoft Windows 1.0 product manager):'''''
+''"But by the early summer of 1985, we were still not close to being done, so Steve declared we should release a preliminary release that I dubbed the "Premiere Edition", which we provided to key application vendors, analysts, and members of the press for feedback and in partial fulfillment of Ballmer’s promise to ship the product that summer."''
+''Source:'' [http://technologizer.com/2010/03/08/the-secret-origin-of-windows/2/]
-Windows Premiere Edition is actually a beta: in [http://technologizer.com/2010/03/08/the-secret-origin-of-windows/2/ this blog entry] by Tandy Trower, who was the Project Manager on Windows 1.x. Extract (emphasis added in): ''But by the early summer of 1985, we were still not close to being done, so Steve [Ballmer] declared '''we should release a preliminary release that I dubbed the Premiere Edition''', which we provided to key application vendors, analysts, and members of the press for feedback and in partial fulfillment of Ballmer’s promise to ship the product that summer.''
+'''''According to Trower, the memory management code of the operating system needed to be rewritten at a later point in development:'''''
-Also noted in the same blog entry was the critical bug mentioned: ''Then just at the point I was starting to feel more optimistic about wrapping things up the architect of the memory management code told me he found a critical defect in its design and would need to re-write it, basically rendering all testing to date useless.''
+''"Then just at the point I was starting to feel more optimistic about wrapping things up the architect of the memory management code told me he found a critical defect in its design and would need to re-write it, basically rendering all testing to date useless. I pleaded with him to find an easier way, but after a thorough discussion there was no option other than to let him proceed and restart the testing process."''
-[[file:Win100fake.jpg|thumb]]
+Shown below is a copy of the fourth disk, with updated files from between October 23rd and October 28th, 1985, which were likely provided to testers for further evaluation prior to the product's release.
-At one point in time, there was a fake "Windows 1.00" floating around, which was nothing more than a hex-edit of a few files.
+=== Alias' copy ===
+A [http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=33024 picture] of the floppy disk set of this and a screenshot of the Windows logo screen were provided by a user named Alias, who eventually provided the site with a well preserved and fully original copy, [http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=33172 currently provided to visitors as a BetaArchive exclusive.].
+== Gallery ==
+=== Disk scans ===
+<gallery>
+Windows_1_Premier_Edition_Disk_1_floppy.jpeg|Disk 1
+Windows_1_Premier_Edition_Disk_2_floppy.jpeg|Disk 2
+Windows_1_Premier_Edition_Disk_3_floppy.jpeg|Disk 3
+Windows_1_Premier_Edition_Disk_4_floppy.jpeg|Disk 4
+</gallery>
+=== Main ===
+<gallery>
+Win10PE-IBMXT.JPG|Premiere Edition running on an IBM PC-XT
+</gallery>