Microsoft's'solitaire 'finally celebrates its 30th anniversary, still playing 35 million people worldwide every month
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'Solitaire', which has been installed in the Microsoft Windows series since 'Windows 3.0' released in 1990, became a world famous game with the explosive hit of Windows 95. It is said that such a solitaire celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2020, and the technology media company The Verge has summarized the history of solitaire as the 30th anniversary.
Microsoft Solitaire turns 30 years old today and still has 35 million monthly players-The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/22/21266718/microsoft-solitaire-30-years-old-history-birthday-record-attempt
Solitaire, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2020, has been familiar to many people for many years, still 35 million people play monthly, and the number of times played per day exceeds 100 million times .. Originally developed as part of Windows 3.0, solitaire also helps teach Windows users the basic operations of a PC: drag and drop, as it requires dragging and dropping cards on the screen to move. It was.
Solitaire was originally named 'Windows Solitaire' and has been included in all Windows versions for over 20 years since 1990, but it was not pre-installed in 'Windows 8' released in 2012. However, it was possible to download and play from the Windows Store for free even on Windows 8, and it seems that many people continued to play.
And in `` Windows 10 '' released in 2015, Solitaire was pre-installed again after various changes such as renewing theme effects and being able to compete with friends in rankings. It was decided . The number of PCs shipped with Solitaire pre-installed exceeds 1 billion, and in 2016 the number of unique users exceeded 100 million.
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In fact, it wasn't the regular Microsoft employees who made Solitaire for Windows, but Wes Cherry, who worked at Microsoft as an intern in the summer of 1988. In 2016, he said on an online bulletin board that Solitaire was developed for Windows 2.1 in his spare time. Mr. Cherry said, 'The code itself is not a big deal ... the only thing that seems interesting is the optimization that was done to make Trump's movement smooth', another ' Pipe Dream ' Although he was paid when he developed the game, he says that no reward was paid for Solitaire.
At the beginning of development, Mr. Cherry incorporated a function called 'boss key' into solitaire. This is because if your boss or colleague seems to be playing Solitaire at work, you can press a specific key to display a fake spreadsheet and it seems as if you were just working To pretend to be. However, this plan was dismissed by Microsoft before the shipment of Windows 3.0.
'If Boss Quay remained, I might have saved one man who was fired by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ,' The Verge said in 2006, 'Solitaire at work. I touched on a man who was fired because he was playing .
Microsoft has translated solitaire into 65 languages and is now officially released for iOS and Android as well as Windows. Solitaire, which attracted many people and even laid off people , joined the 'World Video Game Hall of Fame' selected by The Strong Museum, the United States National Toy Museum in 2019.
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