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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. It required DR-DOS to NOT work by Trixter · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Some say that the Windows 3.0 GUI (remember, it needed MS-DOS/DR-DOS to work)"

    That should read "needed DR-DOS to NOT work". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

    If you wonder where the anti-Microsoft FUD comes from, it comes from people like me who still remember this stuff. Don't get me started on how Geoworks was crushed.