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Windows 3.0

The third major released of Microsoft Windows with Windows icons and applications like File Manager, Program Manager that is still being used today. Later updates expanded the software’s capabilities, which added multimedia support for sound recording and playback, and also support for CD-ROMS.

Windows 3.0 is the first version of Windows to perform critically and commercially. Other features were the improved multitasking, customizability and the utilitarian management of computer memory. Windows 3.0 sold 10 million copies in 1992.

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Windows 3.1

Windows 3.1 is probably the earliest Windows most of us are familiar with, which was released on April 6, 1992. Window 3.1 was designed to have backward compatibility with older Windows platforms. On November 8, 1993, Windows 3.11 was released, which introduced problem corrections. On November 22, 1993 Windows 3.2, a version of Windows 3.11 in Simplified Chinese, was introduced.

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Windows NT 3.1

Codename: AXP/93

Release Date: July 27, 1993

The first Windows New Technology (NT) introduced. Windows NT 3.1 was a 32-bit operating system. Windows NT descended from the work Microsoft did while collaborating with IBM on OS/2 after the great split.

Windows NT 3.1 was available in two editions: Windows NT 3.1 for workstations, and Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server for servers. When these premiered, their sales were limited by high system requirements, and a general lack of 32-bit applications to take advantage of the OS's data processing capabilities.

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Windows 3.11

Codename as Windows 3.1: Janus

Release Date: August 1993

Patch/bugfix release.

For the first time, Windows-based PCs were network-aware and became an integral part of the emerging client/server computing evolution – Microsoft. The successor of Windows 3.10 was Windows 3.11 for Workgroups (WfW) with network abilities for use as a client in a network. The OS supports now beside Netbeui for the first time TCP/IP. WFW could combine up to 25 computers in a working group.

Additional Information on Win3.11

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