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MS To Finally End OEM Licensing For Windows 3.11
halfEvilTech writes with an excerpt from Ars Technica's story on the sputtering out of Windows for Workgroups 3.11: "Believe it or not, that headline is not a typo. John Coyne, Systems Engineer in the OEM Embedded Devices group at Microsoft, has posted a quick blog entry that broke the bad news: as of November 1, 2008, Microsoft will no longer allow OEMs to license Windows for Workgroups 3.11 in the embedded channel. That's exactly 15 years after it shipped in November 1993! Poor OEMs have so much to put up with these days; first Windows XP, and now this!"
This news doesn't bode well for Windows 95...
A slashdot article without a typo? Can't half that!
Thank God for evolution.
...will my "Bob" license still be valid?
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Of course they should be open sourced. Ideally all four of the software freedoms should be enshrined in law.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
Also goes to show you that old isn't always 'bad'.
It's a good rule of thumb, though. I just found a cabbage in the fridge that I think we bought three months ago.
OMG, the stench!
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Why dont they release the source code to the community?
Fear of embarrassment? :)
Probably because the majority of Vista's architecture is based on 3.11.
Only the most hardcore used "Windows NT",
President Bush's popularity sank to new lows,
Afghanistan's ongoing collapse continued to somehow worsen,
A series of bomb blasts killed scores of people in India,
RMS insisted that Linux be called GNU/Linux and nobody cared,
MTV sucked ass,
The number of Americans incarcerated increased by between 300,000 and 700,000 a year...
So I'm not allowed to use Open Office to track my human trafficking shipments?
hey, what's the problem with lantastic ? i earned my living out of it for a bunch of years. i liked the way the DOS boxes bleeped everytime the coax cable was open.
bleep! bleep! bleep! bleep!
and there i went with a 50 Ohm terminator to find the faulty node...
ahhh, the good old times.
now get of my lawn, punk.
What ? Me, worry ?
Why are you in the first place? Office has some nice built in templates just for that.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!
So I'm not allowed to use Open Office to track my human trafficking shipments?
I think IBM handles a lot of contracts in that market.
In Capitalist America, bank robs you!
Just because someone is using crappy hardware, it doesn't give you the right to use language like *that*.
I think old versions should all be made available, just as soon as they are no longer available for purchase. Then perhaps we would see some actual innovation. About a year ago I stumbled across WFW 3.11, and DOS 6.22. On a slow day at work I installed them on a recent system. I must say DOS and Win3.11 fly on modern hardware. :)
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
A windows OS that can be spoken highly of...without ANY negative points? You must be new here.
My sig beat up your sig.
I bet most of us can remember the day you loaded 3.11.... and said "you gotta be kidding me"!
I was a Mac user, so I was more like "Thank god I don't have to run WordPerfect anymore!"
Business. Numbers. Money. People. Computer World.
Probably because the majority of Vista's architecture is based on 3.11.
Only the parts that work
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
Should we all get off your lawn? :-)
I remember using A/UX as well. Those days were NOT as good as you remember them being.
Agreed. See the amusing, enlightening, and very readable Unix-Haters Handbook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook
I think you meant to say: "Do you need a hand?"
We don't believe in radical loony monotheistic religions from the middle east -- we're Christians.