I had a quick look today on newly released Windows 7. Seems like two oldest Windows games are still there without any significant changes, apart from updated graphical styles.

Since it is difficult to find a working hardware old enough to run Windows 3.1, I’ve used Sun’s VirtualBox to run it. As expected, booting time is much faster than in was on IBM PC with 286 processor inside, it takes around 2 seconds to load MS-DOS and less than 2 seconds to load Windows (it was basically an MS-DOS application which was loaded from command line, not an operating system as we know it today).

Here how they looked back in Windows 3.11, released back in 1993:

And the same two games shipped with Windows 7, released 16 years later: