Time to upgrade from Windows for Workgroups 3.11

On November 1, 2008, Microsoft will no longer allow OEMs to license Windows for Workgroups 3.11 for installation on new computers--exactly 15 years after it shipped in November 1993. Time to finally upgrade to Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/07/09/oem-licensing-for-windows-3-11-finally-to-end-in-4-months

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undomiel

Or, time to start stock-piling WfW311!

macdude

So me going after my WfW3.11 cert is kinda of pointless now, huh

royal

What's Windows for Workgroups 3.11?

astorrs

royal wrote:

What's Windows for Workgroups 3.11?

JDMurray

You guys are such crack-ups!

scheistermeister

royal wrote:

What's Windows for Workgroups 3.11?

Only the first networkable Windows!

dynamik

scheistermeister wrote:

royal wrote:

What's Windows for Workgroups 3.11?

Only the first networkable Windows!

You need to frequent the MS forums more. It's an ongoing joke

http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=232487#232487

scheistermeister

dynamik wrote:

You need to frequent the MS forums more. It's an ongoing joke

http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=232487#232487

Gotcha, missed that one.

binarysoul

I think Bill Gates was the only tech answering support calls for Win 3.11. Now that he left, it makes sense support stops

Good old says

Daniel333

Man, I miss Windows 3.11... and OS/2 for that matter.

JDMurray

I wrote three books and a lot of code on Windows 3.x. Although I switched to Windows 95 at work, I used 3.11 at home until I finally got a copy of Windows 2000 Pro.

If I could find a copy of WfWG that installed from a CD I'd load it into VMWare right now just to wax nostalgic.

scheistermeister

JDMurray wrote:

I wrote three books and a lot of code on Windows 3.x. Although I switched to Windows 95 at work, I used 3.11 at home until I finally got a copy of Windows 2000 Pro.

If I could find a copy of WfWG that installed from a CD I'd load it into VMWare right now just to wax nostalgic.

Why not load it from floppy images?

Slowhand

What!?!? No more Windows for Workgroups 3.11? I'm not sure about upgrading, though. You sure that this "NT" stuff, as you call it, has been out long enough to be reliable? Oh, screw it. I'm switching to that Finnish OS I keep hearing about. . .

Ahriakin

We still have a couple of WFW machines running in our main plant. They control a couple of production machines with custom hardware and software. Everytime we get a call from down there I consider quitting

Sie

Ah the good old days, where everything was nice and simple.....

Oh wait we are talking about WFW arnt we?

Lee H

My first PC was WFW, 8 meg of ram, 500 meg hard drive

And then came Win 95 with "Hover", how cool was that game, lol