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Screenshot previously assumed to be from the operating system

Windows 1.00 Premiere Edition is a preliminary release of the Windows 1 operating system developed by Microsoft.

It was released to the Euro-Asian Beta Group by Hiroshi Nakamura and Jaoao de Comoes, and later to BetaArchive by Norman Koch.

The Project Manager of Windows 1, Tandy Trower, stated: '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.

A screenshot once purported to be of the Premiere Edition was later proven to be fake, being only the result of a few modications made to files in the RTM version of the operating system.

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-Premiere Edition 1.00 is the only known build of Microsoft Windows 1.00 Premiere Edition to be 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).
+[[File:Win100fake.jpg|thumb|Screenshot previously assumed to be from the operating system]]
+'''Windows 1.00 Premiere Edition''' is a preliminary release of the [[Windows:1|Windows 1]] operating system developed by [[Microsoft]].
-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.
+It was released to the Euro-Asian Beta Group by ''Hiroshi Nakamura'' and ''Jaoao de Comoes'', and later to [[BetaArchive]] by ''Norman Koch''.
-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.''
+The Project Manager of Windows 1, ''Tandy Trower'', stated: '''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.''
-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.''
+A screenshot once purported to be of the Premiere Edition was later proven to be fake, being only the result of a few modications made to files in the RTM version of the operating system.
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-[[file:Win100fake.jpg|thumb|Fake Windows 1.00 screenshot]]
-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.