Windows 3.x, first launched by Microsoft in May 1990, is officially no longer.

According to the BBC News website, Microsoft stopped issuing licences on the 1st November 2008.

Even though Microsoft ended mainstream support of Windows 3.x at the end of 2001, it has continued to exist as an embedded operating system, powering cash tills, ticketing systems and even entertainment systems on some long-haul jets!

I was working for the Education and Arts IT Unit (as we were known then) back in 1996 when our primary school offices were fitted out with a 486 PC running windows 3.11. The head teacher had a 386 running MS-DOS 5.0!

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Thanks to our very own Paul Seel for the tip.

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