Much like Microsoft Solitare, the inclusion of the game Microsoft Minesweeper in Windows 3.1 in 1992 was a major time sink for tens of millions of people in the 1990s and into the 2000s
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Through the new Games for Work app, Microsoft is adding a bunch of casual games to its video-conferencing tool - Teams. It will help team members boost their productivity and have fun simultaneously.
It's been an eventful week in the Microsoft-verse thanks to some Edge shenanigans, a festive Windows Ugly Sweater, and Dev Channel build 22509, which addresses many issues related to Windows 11.
Microsoft is keeping its Ugly Sweater trend alive and is releasing a new Minesweeper themed Ugly Sweater for this year. These will be available for a limited time for purchase via the Xbox Gear Shop.
Microsoft has now released official versions of its Solitaire, Mahjong and Minesweeper games for Windows Phone, which can sync up to their Windows 8 counterparts.
Asus is taking pre-orders for its upcoming PQ321Q 4K PC monitor and is hyping up the release by showing it running 207 instances of Minesweeper at the same time.
Microsoft has now updated its Xbox Games app for Windows 8 and RT, plus it has pushed out new updates for its popular Mahjong and Minesweeper casual games for the OS.
Microsoft has launched a new Minesweeper website that's designed to also be a benchmark for HTML5-based web browsers, including the new Windows 7 version of Internet Explorer 10.
Microsoft has released an update to the Windows 8 version of its classic Minesweeper game that finally allows the title to be played on Windows RT, and therefore the new Surface tablet.
A new report claims that Microsoft will brand PC games made specifically for Windows 8 under the "Xbox Windows" brand, in a further merging of the Xbox name with Windows 8.
One of Neowin's forum members has found a way to check out screenshots of some of Microsoft's build in games for the RTM version of Windows 8, including Solitare, Minesweeper and Mahjong.
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