![]() Multiple DOS program multitasking support.Better memory management with Intel's 8026 processors.Officially supported by Microsoft until December 31, 2001. Succeeded by Windows 3.1 on April 6, 1992. Windows 3.02: November 1991 (Japanese release).Windows 3.00a with Multimedia Extensions 1.00: Octo(release).Windows 3.00: (compiled) / (first official release).Windows 3.00.55 (Windows 3.00 Beta): Janu(leaked release).The team cobbled together a rough prototype that could run Windows versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint simultaneously, then presented it to company executives, who were impressed enough to approve it as an official project. In previous versions of Windows 2.xx for 386 processors, protected memory only supported DOS applications. Work on what became Windows 3.0 began at Microsoft in 1988 when David Weise and Murray Sargent independently decided to develop a protected mode for Windows applications, to allow reliable multitasking. ![]()
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