OS Tour: Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions 1.0

In this we're taking a look at a special version of Windows 3.0 that released in 1991 that introduced multimedia capabilities in Windows that can support sound cards and CD-Rom drives. This version of Windows 3.0 MME is basically the Creative Labs edition, this is also the very first version of Windows to actually have a start-up and shutdown sound. The Tandy version of Windows 3.0 MME has the start-up sound disabled, which in future we'll showcase the Tandy version. It was succeeded by Windows 3.1 in 1992 along with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 in 1993.

[@CEO100able]

Wow, it's interesting to hear sounds and MIDI music on Windows 3.0. It sure was a fabulous introduction back in the early 1990s.

[@DuranMedine]

Most definitely. The early 1990's is when computers with CD-Rom drives and sound card started to become mainstream, and Windows started to become to go for productivity software and games.

[@cameroncole06]

Interesting. This would be the first Windows version with a startup sound, right?

[@DuranMedine]

Yes. It was very the first version of Windows to have startup with the introduction of sound cards.