[thaliaarchi]

The current article[0] says:

> Excel 2.0 was released a month before Windows 2.0, and the installed base of Windows was so low at that point in 1987 that Microsoft had to bundle a runtime version of Windows 1.0 with Excel 2.0.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel

[hulitu]

Did Windows 1.0 run without DOS ?

[icedchai]

No. No version until NT ran without DOS. Even if you installed Win95 from scratch, DOS was there, bundled.