Windows 3.0
third major release of Microsoft Windows / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Windows 3.0 is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, and was released on May 20, 1990. It is a graphical environment (a program that runs on top of an operating system), instead of an operating system by itself. It became the first successful version of Windows in the market. Windows 3.0 was the first version to be widely seen as a rival to Apple's Macintosh and Commodore's Amiga on the graphical user interface (GUI) front. It was followed by Windows 3.1.[1]
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Developer | Microsoft |
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OS family | Microsoft Windows |
Source model | Closed source |
Released to manufacturing | May 20, 1990; 34 years ago (1990-05-20) |
Latest release | Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions / 1991; 33 years ago (1991) |
Kernel type | Other |
License | Microsoft EULA |
Preceded by | Windows 2.x (1987) |
Succeeded by | Windows 3.1x (1992) |
Official website | http://microsoft.com/ |
Support status | |
Unsupported since December 31, 2001. |
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Windows 3.0 was created in 1989, when David Weise and Murray Sargent independently decided to develop a protected mode Windows as an experiment. They compiled a prototype and showed it to Microsoft executives, who approved it as an official project.