Windows 3.x reaches end of life

Microsoft stops support after 18 years


6 November 2008 10:56 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

The software world has seen an end of an era at the start of this month with the news that Microsoft has finally ended support for Windows 3.x.

The operating system has reached "end of the line", as the phraseology goes with Microsoft now stopping the issue of licenses for the software.

Microsoft has supported the system - and its various versions - for 18 years.

First released in 1990 it sold two million copies in the first 6 months of release with its graphically based user interface proving popular with consumers.
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