The end of an era - Windows 3.x (BBC) - Democratic Underground

eppur_se_muova

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Wed Nov-05-08 08:16 PM
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The end of an era - Windows 3.x (BBC)

By Mark Ward
Technology correspondent, BBC News

An application has expectedly quit.

Windows 3.x has come to the closing moments of its long life.

On 1 November Microsoft stopped issuing licences for the software that made its debut in May 1990 in the US.

The various versions of Windows 3.x (including 3.11) released in the early 1990s, were the first of Microsoft's graphical user interfaces to win huge worldwide success.

They helped Microsoft establish itself and set the trend for how it makes its revenues, and what drives the company until the present day.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7707016.stm

Hope this doesn't inconvenience anyone too much ...

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Bippity Boo

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Wed Nov-05-08 08:19 PM
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1. Windows 3.x is a good metaphor for George Bush.

McCain was Vista. Thank god we dodged that bullet...

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47of74

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Wed Nov-05-08 08:41 PM
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2. I was surprised to hear it was still being used.

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cherokeeprogressive

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Wed Nov-05-08 09:22 PM
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3. I was in a law office the other day that still used WordPerfect 5.1 and Lotus 1-2-3 n/t

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InvisibleTouch

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Wed Nov-05-08 09:34 PM
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4. WordImperfect?

The computers in my early days at grad school were saddled with that disaster of a program. Ugh.

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cherokeeprogressive

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Wed Nov-05-08 10:43 PM
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5. In my mind, it was only slightly better than the IBM Selectric. n/t

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47of74

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Wed Nov-05-08 10:44 PM
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6. I think the computers at the school I went to had it too

I think the computers at the college I went to had it as well - they had both WordPerfect and Word. But I just used Word all the time.

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