RIP Windows 3.1
With little fanfare, Microsoft officially stopped serving licenses to the Windows 3.X series on November 1, 18 years after its release.
It means people have been using Windows 3.1 long after obsolescence — even after Microsoft dropped support for it in 2001 — in the old ATMs and random advertising displays across the world. Windows 3 led a long life, ushering a generation into the computing world.
Oh Windows 3, you made graphical user interfaces cool. We salute you (enter the sound of “Taps” playing on a trumpet somewhere).
[via BBC]
