A file could be dragged onto Print Manager icon and the file would be printed by the current printer, assuming it was associated with an application capable of printing, such as a word processor.
Icons could be dragged and dropped for the first time, in addition to having a more detailed appearance. Windows' own drivers couldn't work directly with DOS applications hardware such as mice required a DOS driver to be loaded before starting Windows. A few DOS applications such as late releases of Microsoft Word could access Windows Clipboard. In 386 Enhanced Mode, windowed DOS applications gained the ability for users to manipulate menus and other objects in the program using the Windows mouse pointer, provided that DOS application supported mice. Truetype fonts could be scaled to any size and rotated, depending on the calling application. Windows 3.1 included the following fonts: Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman, and Symbol (a collection of scalable symbols) in regular, bold, italic, and bold-italic versions.
Truetype font support was added, providing scalable fonts to Windows applications, without having to resort to using a third-party font technology such as Adobe Type Manager. Some older features were removed, like CGA graphics support (although Windows 3.0's CGA driver still worked on 3.1) and compatibility with real mode Windows 2.x applications. The effect of this was to increase system stability over the crash-prone Windows 3.0. Windows 3.1 dropped real mode support and required a minimum of a 286 PC with 1 MB of RAM to run. It was targeted to the new multimedia PC and included sound and video integration with CD-ROM support. Windows 3.1 Multimedia PC Version (Beta only, released Nov 1992 – codenamed Bombay) included a media viewer, and the ability to play video files. It included Minesweeper as a replacement for Reversi (though Reversi was still included in some copies). As with Windows 3.0, version 3.1 had File Manager and Program Manager, but unlike all previous versions, Windows 3.1 cannot run in real mode. Windows 3.1 was designed to have backward compatibility with older Windows platforms. Windows 3.1 was originally released on Apofficial support for Windows 3.1 ended on December 31, 2001. During its lifespan, Windows 3.1 introduced several enhancements to the still MS-DOS-based platform, including improved system stability, expanded support for multimedia, TrueType fonts, and workgroup networking. Subsequent versions were released between 19 until the series was superseded by Windows 95.
The series began with Windows 3.1, which was first sold during April 1992 as a successor to Windows 3.0. Windows 3.1x (codenamed Janus) is a series of 16-bit operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers.
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