Is Windows solitaire The most popular computer game in history?

(Compile/Stream maple) since Windows 3.0, Microsoft has built up several small games in all versions of its Windows operating system, including mine clearance, Solitaire, and Hearts. How much do you know about the stories behind these little games? For example, do you know who the Spider solitaire developer is? In this era of large stand-alone and online games, especially with the rise of social games in recent years, these simple games have gradually been overlooked. But if the small story tells you that the most popular and most users of the computer games ever played are cards in the Windows system do you believe that? Recently, the foreign media has introduced the "glorious history" of the little-known Windows solitaire. Now let's take a look at the small knitting.　　The following is compiled in the original language: Over the past 20 years, a computer game has had far more far-reaching effects on global commuters than any other game, and this game has nothing to do with vegetables, orcs or terrorists. In a time when the computer game market is dominated by shooting games, Facebook social platform games and big online games represented by World of Warcraft, people may have forgotten the existence of another decade　　Be loved by thousands of players and you may be able to play the game at any time (unless you are using a Mac system).　　The game is a card game with the Windows System (Solitaire). "The most frequently used Windows programs in the world" admittedly, in the past few decades, various operating systems have brought many very popular games, with system integration such a simple way into the tens of thousands of households, some popular even more than the traditional PC games.　　For example, mine clearance is a favorite of many people, and some people are more fond of pinball ball or in the early version of Windows with countless people as the classic Tetris. But only one game is entitled to say that it is "the most Frequently used Windows program in the World", as Chris Sells of Microsoft said in 2004 about Solitaire.　　It is really surprising that the card game can get the huge number of users who use other Windows programs, such as Outlook Express, Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, and so on every day at home and in the office. Before the author continues to say, here is a simple introduction to the game: Since Windows 3.0 began in the system with the English name "Solitaire" game originally meant "single gem", but in fact here it has nothing to do with the gem, There is no game in Windows called Gems. Instead, the term is used to refer to a single player who passes a card, a card, according to a certain rule, depending on the flowerA series of card games arranged by color or pairing. The card games most people see in Windows systems are just one of many card types, and in fact it should be called "Klondike" (Ek solitaire).　　The card game first appeared in the 1990 version of Windows, and many people designed a complete set of playing cards, the most famous of which may be Susan Kare, because she also designed for Apple's Mac system of the original program icon, is still very representative. The game was first written by a Microsoft employee named Wes Cherry. At the beginning of this game design, Cherry realized the potential of the game (also accompanied by a certain risk), may become the most popular work in the office, so he began to even design a "Boss key" function, as long as the button will immediately hide the card,　　Let others think it is working, but Microsoft has removed this functionality before it is built into Windows 3.0. Windows card games have been escalating since then, adding many new table backgrounds, new card backgrounds, and new gameplay over the past few years (for example, allowing players to save game progress in Windows Vista and Windows 7).　　In fact, now if you buy a Windows system, you not only get a card game but three, including variants of another two original card games-"Spider Solitaire" and "Gap Solitaire". "Gap Solitaire" also had a glorious history, although it was late to join Windows (until 1995), but it was one of the first computer games to join the networking function. Its designer, Paul Alfille, designed a version that could support up to 1000 players at a time in the early 80 of the late 70.　　[Page] makes users more accustomed to using computers although Windows Solitaire has become almost synonymous with casual gaming and time to work, the fact that Microsoft decided to build the game into Windows is another reason for users to get used to computers and their own operating systems. Now we're getting used to it, but in the 1990, Windows is a whole new concept for most people, and that's how the mouse operates. In fact, at the time, the PC itself was a novelty for many ordinary people who had grown up with pens, pencils and typewriters.　　With its simple appearance, crisp colors and familiar gameplay, Windows Solitaire is the best way to ease people's "operating system phobia," and to get used to moving and clicking with the mouse.　　Moreover, this goal has indeed been achieved. Games that threaten the efficiency of all commuters in the world Microsoft System Manager"Suppose a company tells their salespeople that they can get a deck of cards for free so they can play when they're bored," Clifford Stoll told Time magazine in 1998. But if the company gives salespeople a 2000 dollar computer per person, the company knows that they are sure to play Windows Solitaire occasionally because it is the second or third most frequently started program on the system. "This is a card game, and before Facebook's platform game is popular, it can be said to be the most efficient threat to all commuters around the world."　　At least in many ways, that's true. Many office workers should feel the same way about it, and it's easy to cite examples of colleagues who spend their time playing cards. But some of them are too lucky to play too much. In 2006, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg found a staff member who fired the card game at work hours. (Small knitting at this moment think of the May domestic Zhengzhou railway station big screen card game ...)　　It seems that card games do have a special fascination for office workers, both at home and abroad. The magic of card games even goes beyond the workplace to penetrate people's daily lives. The author's father spent more time on "Solitaire" over the past ten years than he did the housework.　　More interestingly, in 1996, a doctor named Maressa Hecht Orzack the world's first clinic to treat computer addiction because of its own chronic "card addiction". But this game does not bring all the negative effects. A study conducted by Utrecht University in the Netherlands in 2003 found that those who were allowed to play cards at work were more productive and more satisfied with their work than those who were not allowed to play.　　This is because, as long as the right amount of time, card game function is like smoking or going to the bathroom can help employees temporarily relieve the pressure of work. The end of the card era it is interesting that few people know who their designers are for such a popular and very important game, and those behind the scenes rarely see awards or rewards. Kare her design on her personal site, but no one has ever heard of the "Free Solitaire" developer Alfille.　　Perhaps the most powerful of all is Wes Cherry, because the card game is "free" built into windows and it is his daily job to write the game, so although Windows Solitaire is one of the most popular computer games ever, Wes Cherry says he didn't get a penny from it. The cup has more than that, Windows Solitaire is coming to an end as the "best game to Kill time". With the rise of the Facebook game, almost any office computer nowcan easily play to a variety of small games (small series, the Chinese People beef cattle face ah ...　　, whose popularity has even overtaken cards in recent years, while another feature of Solitaire, "helping people get used to computers and windows," is no longer needed today, and most commuters are already familiar with how the mouse operates. Finally, let's end with Cherry's rather sensational remark about the role played by the card game in passing the time.　　It seems more like the end of the game era, which has thousands of users but is rarely recognised. "The so-called time, is always more and more things." "———— Windows Solitaire designer Wes Cherry (Edit/Ming)