He responded: "Yeah, especially since you are all probably paid to play it!"Ĭherry also went on to reveal a feature that could have saved many an employee's career, but was stripped from the app: "There was a 'boss-key' which when pressed would display some random C code," he said. In an interview with British web site, he was asked if he was a little bitter about this. Winning the game resulted in a delightfully rewarding cascade of cards.ĭespite its immense popularity (and inclusion in subsequent versions of Windows) Cherry did not net the big bucks for his efforts. The back of decks can be selected from a predefined range, with one or three cards being drawn from the deck at a time.
Initially planned to familiarise users with how a mouse worked and introduce concepts such as drag and drop, the simple card game also ranks as one of the greatest productivity sponges of all time. Ranking as one of the most played video games of all time, Solitaire started life in 1989 as a project for intern Wes Cherry. Even if it is a little prone to falling over. Compared to what it would become, version 3.0 seems remarkably clean, crisp and simple to use. While Microsoft has long since dropped support for Windows 3.0, the experience can be relived via virtualization or thanks to the various emulation sites out there. Naturally, Apple (already setting the legal dogs on Microsoft after Bill's gang added features like overlapping windows in Windows 2.0) was unhappy with the development, but the wannabe OS also damaged Microsoft's relationship with IBM, with whom the soon-to-be Windows giant was developing OS/2. In a harbinger of things to come, it also turned up pre-installed on many machines, including those from Zenith. After a glitzy launch (for Microsoft at the time), Windows 3.0 shifted a million copies worldwide in the first three months alone.
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