Windows 3.0’s arrival in 1990 was less a single product launch than a change in the way millions of people thought about personal computing — and yes, the tiny game of Solitaire bundled with it played a surprisingly large role in that cultural shift. (en.wikipedia.org)
Background / Overview...
386 era
browser emulation
bundling
emulation
file manager
gui
klondike
marketing blitz
microsoft
ms-dos
pc history
platform economics
program manager
retrocomputing
software preservation
solitaire
ui design
user onboarding
uxquirks
windows 3.0
