Windows 1.0 1984-02-22 build

The Windows 1.0 1984-02-22 build is an early build of Windows 1.0, shown in the May 1984 issue of Japanese magazine 月刊アスキー (meaning "Monthly ASCII"). The same or similar build was also briefly shown in the "History of Microsoft - 1983" video, showing system date of 9 April 1984. Another screenshot likely from the same build can be found in page 342 of "Computing Today: Microcomputer Concepts and Applications". It is similar to the Fall COMDEX build, but also bears notable UI differences.

There is now a single help button on the right side of the status bar, while individual help buttons on windows have been replaced by resize boxes much like those in the final version. The date displayed in the status bar in the top left is "09 Apr 1984". The system menu button, which was previously on the right side of the status bar (where the help button is now), was presumably moved to the left side (not visible in the video as it's cut off), where it's located in later builds. Scrollbars now appear the same as in Development Release #5, and the vertical scrollbar was moved to the right side of the window. The Text applications is missing its rather crowded menu from previous builds.

Icon Editor can be seen, which indicates that this build had working applications already. Puzzle and another application with a blank icon can also be seen in the icon area. The absence of a shell suggests that these applications were started with Windows. The Trash icon was already added at this point, but it is unknown if it was functional. The Help button was moved from every window into the right side of the message bar, while the menu button was moved to the left side.