Microsoft Windows 3.0 Pre-Release 0.1 Released in 1989 by Microsoft For DOS This is a very early and stripped down pre-release of Microsoft Windows 3.0 that was sent to hardware vendors strictly for the purpose of hardware compatibility testing. As such, it does not include any applications other than the MS-DOS Executive. It will only run a small handful of Windows 2.x or 1.x applications, but you may notice that you can run more of them at once than on Windows 2. This software is very, very, very picky about the environment needed to run it properly. It requires a 386 or 486 CPU, and DOS 3.31 or 4.0x. You must add the line FILES=40 (or more) to your config.sys.