The end of an era - Windows 3.x

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7707016.stm

I guess this means we'll all have to upgrade now...

 

win 95 here i come

 

Pah, I hate having to upgrade. Next version of Windows here we come then.

What's this "Start button" thing about anyway?

 

Even 3.11, arrrh the buggers!

 

Pfft, I'm skipping 95 and 98 and going straight for Windows ME, can't lose.

 

Well it is the millennium edition one should expect to at least see you through this century

 

Its fine, just because they aren't issue licences doesnt mean we have to stop using it. I think its got another 10-15 years in it yet!

 

Sheesh... i was still planning to upgrade to 3.1... DOS has been a pain to replace... all of a sudden you need this alien "mouse" thing and graphics and stuff.... it just weirds me out... at least with 4 colours and text-only input methods, i know where i stand... even though it WAS an issue to get this newfangled "interwebs" thing up and running.

 

Good, I've a clean hard drive, a copy of Vista i no longer want, and a pocket full of dreams.

 

I hated windows 3.x, nothing but sound problems. that and dos was just so much faster to load. given the choice of dos or win3.x, it was dos all the way. I only went into windows to write reports for school or if I had a program that could only run under windows.

 

I'll never understand how people can hang on the past like that if it comes to IT, even win 2k is ancient history and then some people are still using 3,1? *shudder*.
And no, you dont have to use some ancient os for embedded systems, thats what tiny stripped down (but up to date) linux distros are good for.

 

Why change it if it works for you though, is probably the answer.

 

Get sarcasm less ?

Nobody still uses 3.1. Its non news.

 

Feels like an old friend has died... Love it or loath it, we all remember Windows 3.11.

Good times, good times...

 

errm, actually i was using system 6 when you guys were bashing your heads against win3.1. System 6 was a good 5 years more advanced and MS only caught up with win95 by which point i was on to system 7

 

I reckon there are a few companies out there that still use it because their ridiculously old custom software won't run on anything newer.

 

exactly how i feel too. i fiddle around with 3.11 and 95 on an old laptop i've got knocking around to play old games on now and again. feels nice and a pure blast from the past!

 

tesco still use 3.1 and sometimes workgroups for its backend SEL system!

 

I still have an old Acer running Windows 3.1
Blazing 486 speed and a 650 MB hard drive. I'm cookin' now.

 

Win2k is rock-solid at least as far as Windows goes. 3.x only still existed in embedded point-of-sale systems by and large. It's like realizing that there are decades-old apps written in pascal and fortran that power the majority of the global financial infrastructure.

Gotta say that I tried installing Win98 in a VM the other day to try and run an old-school game, and that did NOT end well. DOS or bust.