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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. Re:Windows 3.1 was more significant by Anpheus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People didn't want high end work though, they wanted Good Enough(tm) and didn't want to spend a fortune to do it.