What were MSFT thinking? What do you think? To save attack surface? Why is lots of non-uninstallable Xbox-related software pre-installed (and why on Windows Server?) But why are they not just included? To save disk space? Solitaire is 56 KB. Yes, they are available for free from the Microsoft Store, apparently (with ads). No Mine Sweeper, no Solitaire, no Hearts, no heart, no soul. My OpenVMS 8.4 for Alpha comes with a puzzle game. Every UNIX and Linux distribution comes with a few simple games, some installed by default. It had been a long time since an OS came out without an included game to show that the OS could actually host a useful application (CP/M had no game, MS-DOS had BASIC games). In fact, it wouldn't be wrong to define "operating system" as "a thing with a kernel, a shell and a solitaire game". Likewise OS/2 came with (pretty much the same) Solitaire game and a Mahjong game and, I believe, a chess game.Īll other operating systems come with little games. They were the first Windows programs everyone had (apart from those who used a rare DOS program that came with a runtime version of Windows) and everyone was happy about them.
Years ago, Mine Sweeper, Solitaire and Hearts were Windows, literally.
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