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After watching some very interesting videos about the "History of Windows" last night, I got a little curious and installed a copy of Windows 3.00a onto one of my virtual machines. Back in 1993, my first PC already came preinstalled with a modern Windows 3.1, so this is something new to me.

On the one hand, the system does look familiar, but on the other hand... everything looks a bit "off". Mostly the colours. But, so far, everything seems to be working just fine. At this time, Windows still lacked any kind of multimedia software, so there's no Sound Recorder or Media Player yet. But, as a nice bonus, they still included the "MS-DOS Executive", so you can make it look and feel very close to Windows 2.x.

Unfortunately, unlike WIndows 3.1 or 3.11, there has never been a Y2K patch for Windows 3.0, so its usefulness, even within an emulator, is a bit limited.