End Of Windows 3.x
Thursday 6 November 2008 12:14 PM
On 1 November Microsoft has stopped issuing licences for the software that was first released in May 1990 in the US. The operating system is mainly known because of it being the first graphical user interface for once of Microsofts software publications, the various versions of Windows 3.x (including 3.11) released in the early 1990s and was the first Major competitor to Apple's desktop computer range. The OS required an 8086/8088 processor or better that had a clock speed of up to 10MHz, at least 640KB of RAM, seven megabytes of hard drive space, and a graphics card that supported CGA, EGA and VGA graphics. The software came patched with SVGA driver for 1024x768 resolution, Internet Explorer 5, WinZIP, VfW and Video Player included. Today's version of the widely available Home Basic version of Windows Vista requires a 32-bit 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 20GB of hard drive space, and a graphics card with at least 32MB of memory. Today's market share of Windows operating system, shows that XP takes up 70% of consumers current choice, Vista 20%, and the odd copy of 98 or 2000 taking up a small percentage of operating systems still being used to this date,
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