Microsoft kind of did though? Windows/386 was released in late 1987. It could run multiple DOS apps using the "virtual 8086" mode. That was pretty revolutionary at the time. I think I knew more people using DESQview back then, though.

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twoodfin 4 days ago | parent [-]

Sure, but their mainstream OS didn’t support the bulk of the 80386’s capabilities until late 1995.

That’s kind of insane if you think about it.

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icedchai 4 days ago | parent [-]

True, though Windows 95 kinda ran like crap on the 386. We were well into the Pentium era by then.

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msh 4 days ago | parent [-]

Not just kinda, it was close to unusable without a 486.

	▲	icedchai 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Hah. I was being generous! My 386 box was collecting dust by that point. I did hear horror stories about people attempting to upgrade their 386 with 4 megs just to hit the "minimum" Win95 requirements and having their machines swap to death.