Winrumors points to a cute video displaying a set of upgrades starting with Microsoft Windows 1.01 up to Windows 7. This is definitely one video worth the 10 minutes of watching, if you've spent time installing more than one version of windows, and you belong to one of us - the geeks who sigh a nostalgic sigh as they view the evolution of Windows and enjoy the running gag of attempting to execute Doom II on each version...
A small comment: Those with a sharp eye will notice that they guy who did this magnificent piece missed Windows ME. Some claimed it was due to the buggy nature of that Operating system. I do not agree. Such a feat of upgrading from such old operating systems can be done today only via a virtual machine (otherwise the earlier versions, as Windows95, will probably panic meeting the new and alien hardware). As I've had my share of old operating systems installtion in virtual machines (as told about in at least one occasion in this blog), I know that Windows ME gives a really troublesome time to anyone who tries to install it in a virtual machine. I believe it has something to do with the way it handles hardware, but never got to the bottom of this, as ME installation games in virtual environments were more of a doodling around with virtual capabilities than anything someone really needed. I believe the guy who made this video encountered the same problem, and didn't think it worth while.
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