However, let’s be honest about the announcement. What M$ introduced with Windows 1 was “co-operative multitasking”, not true “pre-emptive multitasking”. It sounded good in theory, but it wasn’t in practice. From memory, it took another 10 years, until the introduction of Windows 95, before anything akin to true multitasking began to appear in Windows and in reality it took until about Windows 2000 before it began to work as it should. To make matters worse, multitasking was a basic function of computers from at least the 1960s. All M$ did was to begin catching-up with computing practices that originated more than 30 years earlier.

All-in-all Windows (until at least Windows 2000) was not much of an achievement and if M$ had any brains they would shut-up and stop commenting about their inglorious past.