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Windows 3.

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On May 22, 1990, Windows 3.0 was released. This Operating System had an
improved program manager and icon system, a new file manager, support for 16
colors and improved speed. Windows 3.0 gained third-party support.
Programmers started writing Windows-compatible software. So end users
started to buy Windows 3.0. Three million copies were sold in first year, and
Microsoft started to achieve reputation and wealth. On April 6, 1992, Windows
3.1 was released. 3 million copies were sold in the first two months. TrueType
scalable font support was added, along with multimedia capability, object linking
and embedding (OLE), application reboot capability, and more.

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