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Microsoft Windows 3.0 Is 20 Years Today

Posted by timothy on from the great-platform-for-playing-jeopardy dept.

siliconbits writes "Some say that the Windows 3.0 GUI (remember, it needed MS-DOS or DR-DOS to work) was the single most important version, as it allowed Microsoft to get its day. The first truly successful Windows operating system is 20 years old today; Windows 3.0 was launched on 22 May 1990 and was the successor to Windows 2.1x."

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  1. Bing is following Google's lead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you visit Bing you can run a Windows 3.0 emulator written in Javascript. Even has sound.

    1. Re:Bing is following Google's lead by daveime · · Score: 4, Funny

      And if you'd formatted your link correctly, even other people could have visited it.

    2. Re:Bing is following Google's lead by gyrogeerloose · · Score: 3, Funny

      If you visit Bing you can run a Windows 3.0 emulator written in Javascript. Even has sound.

      And if you go here, you can run their Hell simulator, but who would want to? Same deal with a Windows 3.0 emulator.

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    3. Re:Bing is following Google's lead by mrsteveman1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Actually OPs link is quite apt, in that it doesn't work :)

    4. Re:Bing is following Google's lead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      If you visit Bing [slashdot.org] you can run a Windows 3.0 emulator written in Javascript. Even has sound.

      Is that the one where a yellow MS employee gobbles up silver dollars out of every PC sale and is chased by Open Source advocates unless it swallows a Patent Power-Up?

    5. Re:Bing is following Google's lead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Although Linux (the kernel) is almost 20 years old, the Free desktop isn't even a teenager yet.

      Just don't look at the source code unless you want to end up in jail.

    6. Re:Bing is following Google's lead by HermMunster · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't see that as enough justification for visiting Bing.

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    7. Re:Bing is following Google's lead by fishexe · · Score: 2, Funny

      If you visit Bing you can run a Windows 3.0 emulator written in Javascript. Even has sound.

      Yay! Between the two of them, my two favorite games!

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  2. Win by clinko · · Score: 5, Funny

    The only time where you type Win to lose.

    I thought of that joke when I was 11. Damn you misconfigured autoexec.bat! You led me down this path to the cubical I now live in!

  3. Re:F*ck Microsoft. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh, that is soo last decade. Now it's F*ck the Cloud!

  4. Does it work with... by goombah99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't want to start a flame war, but can someone tell me when windows is going to support a one button mouse?

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  5. Windows 3.0 Sucked! by lloydsmart · · Score: 5, Funny

    The day Microsoft release a product that doesn't suck will be the day they release their first vacuum cleaner!

    1. Re:Windows 3.0 Sucked! by westlake · · Score: 1, Funny

      The day Microsoft release a product that doesn't suck will be the day they release their first vacuum cleaner!

      It's rather a pity the geek's jokes aren't stamped with an expiration date like a gallon of milk.

  6. Re:Win 3.1 emulator by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    3.11 - 3.1 doesn't work in his calculator. It isn't Windows 3, then.

  7. Re:More importantly... by commodore64_love · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's odd. My teenage angst was fueled by 4000 color nudie pics downloaded on my Amiga. (My IBM PC friends were still stuck with only 256 or 16 colors... not lifelike at all.) I never got off on windows.

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  8. Google logo by lurker412 · · Score: 2, Funny

    To celebrate, Google will change their logo to one which crashes your machine when you click on it.