Currently, millions of users are familiar with Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 11 either Windows Xp. This emblematic chain of operating systems has been the main cause of Microsoft becoming the undisputed dominator of home computing. Along these lines, recently it has just celebrated the 30th anniversary of one of its most important editions, although unknown at this time: Windows 3.1. Learn a little about this emblematic version here.
Windows 3.1 was the first system microsoft which achieved commercial success and great support from third-party software developers. Not to be confused with Windows 3.0 (released in 1990) nor with Windows 3.11 (networks edition appeared in 1993), or with the NT version 3.1 (which did not depend on DOS).
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Windows 3.1: innovative features
It introduced many of the improvements we take for granted in Microsoft operating systems today. Here we list some of the features it came with:
- Support for most types of media such as MIDI format and CD audio
- TrueType fonts (letters) that were not distorted when reducing or enlarging their size
- Workgroup networks
- The Program Manager (ancestor of the Start Menu and File Explorer)
- Super VGA support (and resolution up to 1024 x 768)
- The command Ctrl + Alt + Del
Windows 3.1 was the first massively adopted system and hundreds of software developers decided to give it a try over MS-DOSwhich still lived below the system.
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It is for this reason that Windows 3.1 was so important for personal computing. Millions of users were finally encouraged to use a mouse and keyboard thanks to this and everything would improve with the arrival of Windows 95the internet and multimedia.