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. Background / Overview
Windows 3.0 launched...
386 era
browser emulation
bundling
computer history
dos
emulation
file management
gui
klondike
marketing blitz
microsoft
platform economics
program manager
retro computing
software preservation
solitaire
ui design
user onboarding
uxquirks
windows 3.0