Windows 3.11 will soon be laid to rest
Windows 3.11, we hardly knew ye. Okay–that may be exaggerating things a bit. Anyone who has been in the IT business as long as I have remembers the glory days of Microsoft DOS and Windows 3.11. Well as surprising as this may sound to most of you, including myself, Microsoft will finally pull the plug on Windows 3.11 later this year.
According to a recent blog posting by, John Coyne, a Microsoft Systems Engineer, Windows 3.11 will meet it’s final demise on November 8th. Released almost 15 years ago in November of 1993, Windows 3.11 was still finding itself being sold in OEM embedded devices for quite some time. But alas, in November, Microsoft pulls the plug and will no longer sell Windows 3.11 for OEM machines.
Kinda makes you wonder what embedded machines were still running Windows 3.11 and why these OEM manufacturers waited so long for an upgrade, doesn’t it?
Read more at Blogs.MSDN, via Ubergizmo.
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