Built-in Windows games have long gained a cult status, because they played everyone who has ever sat at a computer. However, Microsoft has added them to its system, not only for the entertainment of its users, but also to train them.
Led Mouse
The best-known Solitaire, "Klondike", appeared in Windows 3.0 in 1990. Then Windows was not yet an independent system, but is merely an add-on DOS, though very difficult. Because of this, many users by inertia continued to use the "command-line" to control the system.
Microsoft also had already released the mouse, but users do not want to move to a complex and unusual input method. To this end, the company and introduced a system of "Solitaire" - a game in which to play without using the mouse is almost impossible. Yes, "Solitaire", you can move the map keyboard buttons, but it's very inconvenient, and even the most stubborn opponents of the mouse eventually get used to it. As a result, Microsoft is using this simple game (which appeared in the XVIII century) could retrain generation of users who are accustomed to the command line.
Microsoft first introduced into circulation a mouse as an input device in 1983, when released the text editor Word.
This application was initially enchanted by the use of this type of manipulator. This choice has been linked including the complexity of the functions of Word for conventional control via the keyboard: users would have to learn too many new keyboard shortcuts, or move the cursor with the arrow keys, which also takes time.
However, Word for a long time was not a popular text editor, since there a simpler WordPerfect, which has already been installed on a large number of devices and users do not want to be retrained. Largely for this reason, and mouse by 1990 has not been one of the key accessories to a computer.
To click the mouse
In addition to monitoring Microsoft Mouse it was necessary to teach the user to click it. And because in Windows 3.1, released in 1992, Microsoft introduced the next game simulator - "Minesweeper." With the release of this game developers have pursued two goals. The first - is to accustom users to the fact that besides the main, the left mouse button, there is also a right for which secured additional functions.
The second - to increase the speed and accuracy of using this input device. In the "Minesweeper" is necessary to hit the small squares, and time is limited.
Obviously, the one who will be a long time to aim in the box, will have time to less than one who causes the pointer to the desired point, almost without aiming.
As a result, "Minesweeper" quickly became a hit, and people have even begun to compete in the speed of its passage. And it once again showed users how important it is to quickly use the mouse.
To play with friends
Next educational game - a "Worms", which Microsoft has introduced into its system in the next version - Windows for Workgroups 3.1. She, too, was released in 1992, but had the support of local networks. Since the "Worms" - is a multiplayer game, it was designed to teach people to communicate over the network, even in the form of a game.
Yet in 1992, the use of nets was a novelty. Thus, the first picture was uploaded to the Internet only in 1992, when a new standard protocol that supports image files.
In 2012, favorite games from Windows people disappeared. However, this disappearance was of educational function. After all, they can be downloaded only from the app store, and users would have to train to use the tool to obtain the necessary programs.
However, a storm of criticism in the direction of Windows 8 was so high that, together with the return of the menu «Start» Microsoft back in Windows 10 and "Solitaire." However, there has not been without training: solitaire is now an opportunity to purchase additional items or disable advertising, and users will have to learn to interact with the function of buying directly from the application.
