Microsoft Solitaire Enjoys 35 Million Monthly Players Even After 30 Years
Microsoft launched the computer game based on a card game, Solitaire, in 1990. As of now, the game has turned thirty years old today! To celebrate the same, Microsoft is attempting to make a world record by completing most of the Solitaire games in one day. According to a report by Microsoft, even though the game has completed thirty good long years, it still has almost 35 million people playing this every month and more than 100 million people play it all across the world daily! Microsoft originally introduced Solitaire as a Windows 3.0 accessory. Specifically, it was designed to teach the people about the use of the cursor and computer mouse, and how it can be controlled when they grab the virtual digital cards and drop them at the right place. This grabbing and dropping help the users learn the basic features of drag and drop in the Windows operating system. To this day, the feature forms the core of the ease of usage of the Operating Systems today. Given this popularity, it c...