At this point, Windows still involved a lot of text and, up until Windows 3.1, this text didn’t look good. Yet perhaps the most vital enhancement over Windows 3.0 was the introduction of TrueType fonts. You could drag a file onto the Print Manager icon to print it out, or onto the application’s icon in Program Manager to open it and start work. You could explore your PC’s file system visually, copying files from one folder to another by clicking on the file, dragging it over and releasing the mouse button. What’s more, those icons could now do more than just get clicked on, as Windows 3.1 introduced drag and drop. Double clicking icons launched the applications, or you could drag and drop files onto the icons or open windows The Program Manager was the heart of Windows 3.1. Yet Windows 3.1 went further, taking advantage of the VGA and SVGA graphics standards to introduce a revamped UI with more colourful icons. Instead of clicking on a program or a file in a list, you could double click on an icon to launch it. Windows 3.0 has already done some of the hard work of introducing a proper GUI, replacing the horrible, text-based MS-DOS Executive of Windows 1.x and 2.x with the new Program Manager and File Manager components. Look and feel certainly played an important part in Windows 3.1’s success. Believe us – Windows 3.1 looks rough by today’s slick standards, but not half as rough as what came before. It was partly a question of stability, partly features and partly look and feel. How did Windows 3.1 do this? That’s not something you can nail down to any one factor. Windows was already big, but 3.1 put Windows in the lead. What’s more, it was a sales phenomenon, shipping over 3 million copies in its first six weeks on the market and 25 million within the first year. With the launch of Windows 3.1 in April 1992, Windows finally looked and felt like the real deal. Launching Windows from MS-DOS could be s…l…o…w Cue a sigh of relief when this splash screen showed up.
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