Windows 3.0 was the first version of windows to really get traction and give computer users a genuine step forward from the MS DOS days.
MS DOS is an operating system most readers of our site would not even understand, being just a command line interface, with no mouse and no picture.
With multi tasking starting to become an idea and companies such as Xerox experimenting with a more graphical way to interface with a computer, the time was right for Microsoft to release their third iteration of Windows to the world.
Windows 1.0 and 2.0 had not been great success stories. Windows 1.0 was released in a time when a mouse was not something most computer users had, or even knew how to use and also couldn’t support having one window overlapping another windows.
While Windows 2.0 fixed the overlapping window problem but still didn’t really take off.
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