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From: TimF	7/15/2008 6:15:41 PM
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It's the End for 3.11!! for those that were not aware, we recently announced that effective November 1st, 2008, OEM's will no longer be able to license Windows for Workgroups 3.11 in the embedded channel. Now we all know that it's been long gone in the standard (retail/OEM) channel, but one of the unique things in the embedded business is that we allow the classic OS products to be sold longer than the other channels. it's *finally the end of an era! blogs.gotdotnet.com Win 3.11 has less than four months to live Embedded applications of the Neolithic By Fernando Cassia: Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 8:16 AM SOME OF US thought 16-bit Windows was dead and buried. It turns out it wasn't quite dead, it was comatose, and the Redmond Juggernaut continued milking the old code for specialised embedded applications like cash registers and the like. The news of the impending demise of 3.11 came from John Coyne, one of Microsoft's Embedded specialists on his bog. He said WfW - the product whose name once was mocked in 32-bit OS/2 circles as "Windows for Warehouses" and which was a graphical GUI and half-OS which ran on top of DOS, will be withdrawn from sale for device manufacturers on November the 1st... theinquirer.net

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