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In Windows 3.0 this was provided by a Multimedia PC add-on which usually came with new Multimedia PCs, sound cards and CD-ROM drives of the day. Multimedia support was now fully integrated along with the expandable Control Panel into Windows 3.1. TrueType survives today along with its close cousin OpenType. With TrueType users could finally have a good grasp that what was shown on the screen would be what was printed without blocky outlines. Windows 3.1 also came with support for TrueType fonts which provide more realistic font rendering as they are outline fonts that can scale to any point size. Write, Paintbrush and the new Object Packager have support for this technology which remains with us today in Windows 8. The File Manager was completely revamped and a revamped hypertext help system was introduced.Īpplications could talk to each other not only through the DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) protocol, also used by OS/2, but also by the new Windows-only OLE protocol which allows for applications to share any type of object more seamlessly. Among the changes in Windows 3.1 include a drop of real mode support (see more below), the removal of the Reversi game, updated icons with richer colors, an improved setup process with better hardware detection, and the introduction of batch install. Microsoft Windows 3.1 was an evolution to Windows 3.0 and undoubtably the most popular, poster child version in the Windows 3.x series.

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