Today in Microsoft History
If you are an Apple fan and/or totally adverse to Microsoft products....... thank you for even taking the time to click on this post.
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April 6, 1992 was a big day!
Microsoft Corporation releases Windows 3.1, an operating system that provided IBM and IBM-compatible PCs with a graphical user interface (though Windows was not the first such interface for PCs). Retail price was $149.00. In replacing the previous DOS command line interface with its Windows system, however, Microsoft created a program similar to the Macintosh operating system, and was sued by Apple for copyright infringement. (Microsoft later prevailed in this suit).
In 1992, another OS update appeared, upgrading Windows to one of its most iconic versions, 3.1. The decimal in its name may make it sound like it was just a minor update to 3.0, but it wasn’t. Instead, Windows 3.1 delivered quite a few new and essential features, such as support for TrueType fonts, the ability to drag and drop icons, and support for OLE compound documents (documents that combine elements from different programs). Also, according to The Guardian, it’s also the first version of Windows to have been distributed via CD-ROM.
In Spring 1992, I was a high school junior. I don't remember this event. Maybe because a number of the computers in the school were of either the Apple IIe or the TRS-80 variety.
I'm not exactly sure when my first exposure to WIN3.1 was??
Grace & Peace & Love to you all -
Matt
