It is for games or digital versions of games in Windows due to more lost working hours in the world.
Added to the famous operating Microsoft in the early 90’s making people not come away from the screen and not be able to stop in a single batch. But it was the reason why the installed to the operating the Microsoft? The answer is “no”, since the entertainment of the users don’t seem to be the main issue.
According to a Washington Post article from 1994, which invokes the slate.com the addictive hobby of officials, who goes by the name Solitaire was designed to help users to become familiar with the operating and in particular with the mouse. That decade, the function of drag and drop was not yet second nature to any computer user, while if we judge it by today’s standards, the game seems to have achieved their goal with a memorable success.
The Solitaire in Windows may seem the worst way to waste someone’s time, however in accordance with what is stated in the mentalfloss.com, changed unquestionably the way in which we’re working on the computer. The digital version of Solitaire was preinstalled in the operating system Windows 3.0 in 1990, and reports for the specific game, there are from the 1700’s.
The intention was for the application to help computer users who were familiar with the commands, learn the drag and drop, without realizing that it changes the way you use the device. The fact that until today this function is widely used reveals that the Solitaire has done relatively well.
The pedagogical elements of the game, according to the Magazine Slate, found in a further fact in the united states. When in Minnesota, a civil servant was accused of playing solitaire during a debate on the financing of education in 1995, argued that “he did exercises to improve the use of the mouse”.
As for the minesweeper, the game made a debut in Windows 3.1 in 1992, had a similar role in the operating system. This is a seemingly simple game of memory and logic and is one of the most popular Windows games of all time. Its purpose is to find the empty squares and avoid those that conceal mines. If the player touches a mine, he loses the game. The player can put a flag (right-click) to see if there is a mine. The purpose of that? To familiarize the users with the left and right click and be able to impart accuracy to the mouse movements!
Something similar happened with the Mugs that were incorporated into popular operating Microsoft. In Windows for Workgroups 3.1, and specifically in the game Cups used the new NetDDE technology of Microsoft for local network. And in this case, as with Solitaire, we’re not dealing just with a game of cards, but with “the first internet product of Microsoft,” as they called it many. Microsoft wanted the audience to care about the networking features through the game and to be impressed by the specific options of the new operating.
What is the secret behind the solitaire and minesweeper in windows?
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