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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!"
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?
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!
Just because someone is using crappy hardware, it doesn't give you the right to use language like *that*.
Probably because the majority of Vista's architecture is based on 3.11.
Only the parts that work
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