Weekend Nostalgia: Bill Gates Unveils Windows 3.1

By  |  Saturday, November 12, 2011 at 3:14 pm

At the Windows World conference in 1991, an alarmingly youthful Bill Gates recaps the history of DOS and Windows to date and previews Windows 3.1:

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  1. Phab Says:
    November 12th, 2011 at 11:27 pm

    Can't see video.

    Hope it's not because it's flash-only… (come on guys, it's almost 2012, you gotta be kidding me).

  2. level380 Says:
    November 12th, 2011 at 11:59 pm

    @Phab Youtube has a html5 site……you need to enable it http://www.youtube.com/html5

  3. Phab Says:
    November 13th, 2011 at 2:28 am

    hmm did not change anything… they must have embedded the flash object only.
    can you post the youtube link so I could go watch it there?
    thanks.

  4. fred Says:
    November 13th, 2011 at 8:55 am

    jump to the second 1/2 of video 5 to see mr. gates discuss mobile and pen computing.

  5. The_Heraclitus Says:
    November 13th, 2011 at 10:03 am

    Video works fine for me on both my laptop & tablet. Sounds like people are missing basic s/w on their machines.