22 fev 1989 ano - Microsoft Windows v3.0 Debug Release 1.14

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Microsoft Windows v3.0 Debug Release 1.14 is a pre-release version of the Microsoft Windows 3.0 operating system. It was leaked on 2015-01-13.

Physical Floppies as distributed by Microsoft.
This early release of Windows 3.0 was released to independent software vendors (ISVs) for testing, and was distributed on 1.2MB 5.25" floppy disks. Community member RubyTuesday discovered his neighbor owned this build, and proceeded to dump and shared it with the BetaArchive community.[1] The label on the disks refer to the build as "Microsoft Windows Pre-Release Version 0.1."

This pre-release can be only started on a 386+ machine with a specific version of DOS, as not using the correct version will cause Windows to either crash, or refuse to launch the shell. It is speculated that this release was heavily rushed, on the basis of an improvised batch file installation script (similar to that of Windows 1.0 DR5), as well as lack of accessories and applications included in later builds of Windows 3.0.

Interestingly, this release features a build tag in the bottom right corner of the screen, a feature that only reappeared many years later in pre-release versions of Windows 98. The rest of the branding remains unchanged since Windows 2.1, because the entire shell was ported from that version.