Internet Watchの記事「国家によるサイバー戦争は新局面に？ メディア報道の動きや謎の言語の発見」に興味深い一文があった。
記事内容としては、国家ぐるみでのサイバー攻撃が増えているというものなのだが、Kasperskyが「Duqu」というマルウェアを調査したところ、
どのようなプログラミング言語で実装されたのかまったく特定できなかったというのだ。
Twenty years ago today, Microsoft officially launched Windows 3.1, which put Microsoft on a path to dominate the PC OS market.
The platform brought along a wide range of changes when compared to its predecessor, Windows 3.0, including File Manager and
Program Manager, and removed support for real mode. It also featured Minesweeper instead of Reversi, Wikipedia claims.
Although it featured the same interface as Windows 3.0, this platform release came with a TrueType font system, which no longer
required the Adobe Type Manager (ATM) font system from Adobe.
Basically, Windows 3.1 became the first viable desktop publishing platform from Microsoft, offering backwards compatibility with
older versions of the OS, and opening the door towards the building of Windows 95.
Although a 16-bit operating system, the platform did add support for 32-bit disk access, and required a minimum of a 286 PC with
1MB of RAM to run, offering increased overall stability when compared to previous releases.
Some of the enhancements that Windows 3.1 brought over its predecessor include the ability for users to take advantage of the
Windows mouse pointer to manipulate menus and other objects in windowed DOS applications.
It also included multimedia support for the first time, along with theoretical support for up to 4GB of RAM (in 386 enhanced mode).
It also enabled applications to access the Windows Clipboard.
Microsoft loaded it with Office software such as Word 2.0 and Excel 4.0, and allowed users to run Visual Basic 1.0 (which had been
released one year earlier).
