Thanks to Mr.Trower and Mr.Dill. I'd like to shake hands to everyone that actually developed Windows, not just the big stars like Gates and Ballmer.

For those telling that Windows was just good at version 3.0.

Look at a Windows 1.0 program written in C:
http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/Windows1/CAKE.C

It is almost identical to a Windows 7 Win32 program written even today. They laid the back bones, for the flashes and lights come later.

Mr.Dill and Mr.Trower,

Do you remember whose was the people that came with the idea of a queued message strategy (in the example above, the GetMessage() function), and a non-queued message approach (in the example above, the WndProc() function) coupled, as the main paradigm of programming for WIndows?

It seems a vital decision in Windows internal programming, from the developer perspective, and I was always curious about that.

Windows 3.0 went to all square corners everywhere but gained the ability to use Tab to move the default selection (which changed to a dotted outline) for use with Enter.

The computing world would be far different had Xerox had people with the forward looking vision of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 dropped Standard Mode support and required a minimum 80386 CPU, even though Windows was still 16 bit. WFWG 3.11 could support 32bit disk and file access, but there was no benefit if the hardware could only support one or the other.

I don't know if Windows For Workgroups 3.1 still had Standard Mode support.

Windows 3.11 (with Standard Mode support)) had support for 32 disk access. But it was useless without the 32 bit file access because it still had to thunk down to 16 bit so there was no speed improvement. Of course that bit of 32 bit support only worked on a 80386 or higher.

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And Anders Hejlsberg, who initially developed this compiler now works for Microsoft!