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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."

5 of 307 comments (clear)

  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.

  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. Win 3.1 emulator by complacence · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Try this one.

  4. 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!

  5. 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.