If you are wondering why you need the Windows update, it is because Mr tyrant, greedy Gates, did everything he could to make Windows incompatible with DR DOS. These updates fixed this problem. Later he did the same thing with Windows 3.11 and Novell DOS and IBM OS/2 to make them both incompatible with WINDOZE. Later, after Novell sold the rights to DR DOS to Caldera, Caldera sued MS and it was settled out of court for huge bucks. In the agreement that Caldera had with Novell when they bought the DRI stuff from Novell, Novell was to receive a portion of whatever Caldera got. My advice is not to use WINDOZE 3.11 with this or any other DR/Novell/Open/Caldera DOS. Also I would not use it with OS/2 Warp 3 and earlier versions of OS/2. Warp 4 may be okay, however I would check it out thoroughly first before installing WINDOZE 3.11 In my honest opinion, Mr Gates should be put on a spaceship and sent to the nearest black hole along with all of his buggy software!