Happy birthday, Windows 3.1

pcgamer.com:

I've been told that something called Windows 3.1 not only once existed, but also that it turns 30 this year. Despite being relatively short lived, it turns out this updated version of Windows 3 made some big steps, though they've gone a little unrecognised, and were a bit before some of us were using PCs. So, Happy 30th birthday Windows 3.1, this is your life.

According to The Register(opens in new tab), Windows 3.1 launched on April 6, 1992 as successor to Windows 3 and brought with it some pretty notable changes. It came on a good old (surprisingly stiff in their casings) floppy disks and is said to be the first version of Windows available on CD ROM. 

Be careful of your drive space though because once installed it would use between 10 MB and 15 MB of storage. At the time, Windows was still running on MS-DOS but some of the advancements in Windows 3.1 had the 16-bit operating environment looking fairly fresh. Though probably not as fresh as these new UI animations for Windows 11(opens in new tab).

Windows 3.1 brought in the TrueType font system. These are the ultra readable font styles developed by Apple and released for free in order to try to become the standard over Adobe's and others efforts. Microsoft put a lot of development into these readable fonts that still exist today, like Times New Roman and Arial. 

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Due to their design structure to maintain certain dimensions the fonts are versatile and can be