Version 3.0, 1990

In 1990, Microsoft had given pre-release sample of Windows 3.0, and interviews with its key engineers.

The weeklies and the fortnightlies had extolled the merits of Win3’s features like “three-dimensional” buttons, proportional text and then boundlessly managed memory. The OS was bestowed with gold-star awards for being best in its class, and it was only OS of its kind in that time.

There was a fix, the data used in the programmes was executed but was not available for the users, even if data belonged to the user. So there was a movement under way by Microsoft and its supportive independent software vendors (ISVs) to abolish the structure which gave exclusive rights to the data of an application. This also led to dissolve the once exclusive application to allow for equal distribution of correlated tasks on a computing job to other programs non-specifically.