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Everything about Windows 3.0

1990 Microsoft operating system version

Windows 3.0 is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, a family of graphical user shells and operating systems, launched on May 22, 1990. It introduces a new graphical user interface (GUI) that represents applications as clickable icons, instead of the list of file names in its predecessors. 3.00a with Multimedia Extensions added capabilities, such as multimedia support for sound recording and playback, and support for CD-ROMs. This is all unified in Windows 3.1. Wikipedia →

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