Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x

[modeps]

I hope you're sitting down because I want to tell you some sad news. On November 1st, Microsoft officially stopped selling the Windows 3.x line of their operating system. BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7707016.stm):

On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US.

The various versions of Windows 3.x (including 3.11) released in the early 1990s, were the first of Microsoft's graphical user interfaces to win huge worldwide success.

They helped Microsoft establish itself and set the trend for how it makes its revenues, and what drives the company until the present day.

Excuse me for a minute... I must be... alone.

[Schnoogs]

you have got to be kidding me??

Now what am I going to do???

[Franjo]

next best thing man, os2 warp

[Dibbler]

I think the last line proves the person doesn't have a clue about Microsoft history. MS-DOS was the program they started with and I'm old enough to remember MS-DOS 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, etc... and Microsoft didn't invent the "trend" for having new releases.

[Blade]

How many PCs worldwide still actively run Windows 3.1x?

I thought it had been discontinued almost 10 years ago.

[FearTheReaper]

To the DeLorean !

[Chimpbot]

I think the last line proves the person doesn't have a clue about Microsoft history. MS-DOS was the program they started with and I'm old enough to remember MS-DOS 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, etc... and Microsoft didn't invent the "trend" for having new releases.

To be fair, DOS isn't what Microsoft is going to be remembered for; the simple fact that it's been all but removed from the picture for the past two OS generations solidifies this.
Nobody really cared about Microsoft until Windows...and nobody cared about Windows until 3.x.

Besides, they bought DOS from someone else. Windows was their first "wholy original"(I say that with a few grains of salt...) OS.

[WpnX]

It's all good. I still have my copy.

On floppy disk.

That's 5 1/2 inch floppy.

Forget I said anything.

[Exodus]

noooooooooooooooo ski freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Metal Jesus]

I still have it...

Running in a VM on my Mac! :P

[LilAbner]

Timeout....up until now, you could still get Windows 3.1?! WTF?

[Samstag]

Well there goes my plan to upgrade my DOS 5.0 boxes.

p.s. Anybody have an old ISA-bus SCSI adaptor with boot BIOS? Seriously. I need one for a DOS 5.0 box running critical software I don't have source for.

[Jotoco]

I think the last line proves the person doesn't have a clue about Microsoft history. MS-DOS was the program they started with and I'm old enough to remember MS-DOS 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, etc... and Microsoft didn't invent the "trend" for having new releases.

They do say graphical interface

[lockwoodx]

My 486dx266 will never be the same :*(

[Rommel]

The first computer I ever owned used this software. Maybe one day, when we have virtual museums we are digitally beamed to, a rudimentry Disney robot will walk us through trying to install software on this OS.

"Grandpa, why does that mouse only have two buttons?"