![]() ![]() Solitaire was stripped from Windows in version 8, but Microsoft brought it back for Windows 10 in 2015. Microsoft apparently locked the animation to your PC’s performance, though, so by the time the Pentium processor came along, it ran at a zany high speed. ![]() It launched shortly after Intel introduced the 80286 processor, which bounced the cards at a realistic speed. Solitaire is not only a great mindless pastime, but it used to be a way to get a rough check on the speed of your PC. That never made the final Windows 3.0 release, however. The game (programmed by Microsoft intern Wes Cherry) even had a “boss mode” that let you pop up a fake spreadsheet if your boss came along. Solitaire was perhaps the first “gamification” app, teaching folks how to drag and drop in a colorful and and highly addictive way. At the time, many folks were used to the text-based DOS on PCs and had never used a mouse. Windows 3.0 was the first popular version of Windows, having sold 10 million copies. The game first came along with Windows 3.0, launched in 1990 with great fanfare, and is still played by 35 million people per month in 200 markets and 65 languages. Microsoft’s Solitaire, which taught the world to use a mouse and waste unprecedented amounts of time, is turning 30 today. ![]()
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