Microsoft Discontinues Windows 3.x PC operating system
Microsoft, as of November 1st, 2008, stopped issuing licenses for it’s Windows 3.x PC operating system, which it had supported since it’s release in May of 1990 all the way until the beginning of the month. Thus this marks the end of an age for Microsoft, who rose to prominence with that early operating system.
Windows 3.x was Microsoft’s first graphical user interfaces that would go on to win huge worldwide success. It was because of that success that Microsoft was able to establish itself as a force to be reckoned with and challenge the then-almighty Apple.
It was the first operating system a lot of PC users used, and thus it still holds a dear place in the heart of some people. In 2001 Microsoft halted it’s support for the operating system, but it was still in use as an embed system, used to power such things as cash tills in large stores and ticketing systems. One of its more glamorous uses as an embedded operating system is to power the in-flight entertainment systems on some Virgin and Qantas long-haul jets.
Alas, Microsoft has moved on to bigger and better things. Depending, of course, on who you talk to. For much more info on Windows 3.x and its last days, give a look at this article written by BBC.
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