Why Solitaire and Minesweeper Microsoft brought up Windows?

The presence of these games like Solitaire and Minesweeper on the first Windows version to you ... not only is useless wasting time in hours.

Each version of Windows brings a little different for Solitaire, but this game is still an important part of many people's memories on Windows 95/98 / XP.

Not for nothing that Microsoft brought the title "classic" Solitaire and Minesweeper as up Windows. And, other than what you think, what this game is not for Microsoft to demonstrate the ability to do great game to show off the power of the PC Graphics 1990 which is to help users of the previous century can learn to use graphical user interface of Windows.

While Apple has debuted mouse and intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) in the 1984, how few users of Mac platform makes the majority of consumers still quite unfamiliar with this interface. When Windows finishing first (Windows 3.0) came out, shall help users to become familiar with the basic features of the mouse keyboard-based GUI belongs to Microsoft.

When recalled of the days this month, Microsoft product manager, said Libby Duzan software giant has "brought Solitaire on Windows to help appease those who feel apprehensive about this operating system." Today, we have become accustomed to the graphical interface easy to use as Windows, Mac OS or iOS and Android, but that day is still a Windows 3.0 computing environments completely new, completely different with DOS command environment. Therefore, in addition to providing users with a tool to kill time, Solitaire used to "teach users how to use the mouse," with a focus on the drag-and-drop (drag n 'drop), a feature Can not really clear to users which only use the keyboard to type commands.

Minesweeper user has been brought to the 90s over intellectual property.

Location of Solitaire Minesweeper similar in the history of Windows, and Microsoft aim to launch the game "Minesweeper" is also to help users become familiar with the graphical interface: while Solitaire focused drag and drop, Minesweeper focus on features right and left mouse. The users of the previous generation has needed this game to turn the possibility of using two mouse buttons into its second nature. Simultaneously, the "mine" on Minesweeper small size also enables users to increase the speed and accuracy when moving the mouse.

Pass the role of his original guide, Solitaire and Minesweeper have become true cultural phenomenon. So also that Microsoft has strongly contested the launch a squeeze Solitaire version users have to ... pay to remove ads on Windows 10. However, whether Microsoft can disguise the title "legend voice "of his matter how, the game solitaire and Minesweeper Windows will always be great memories associated with the early days of the computer used by a large part world users say general and Vietnam in particular.