Solitaire has been a staple on Windows operating systems for 25 years now, and Microsoft is celebrating the occasion with two tournaments. That’s right, Microsoft is running Solitaire tournaments; and nobody knows how the entire structure works.
The company kicked off the first internal tournament yesterday, with Microsoft employees competing to top the leaderboards. The Windows Blog post has not said what the challenges are like, or how it even tries to score what is essentially a single player game meant to be enjoyed alone.
Once the internal competition has been completed in early June, Microsoft will then release the same challenges used to the public. There’s no word on whether a prize in involved, or whether the winner will simply have the bragging rights of having won what is possibly the only Solitaire tournament in existence.
It should be pointed out that while Solitaire has been a mainstay of Windows since the beginning, it has been absent from Windows 8. Instead of being one of the pre-installed apps, Solitaire has been relegated to just another app on the Windows Store. With any luck, Microsoft will correct this injustice to the world’s most effective time wasting game in the world with Windows 10.
[Source: Windows Blog]
