Goodbye Mircosoft Windows 3.x

Goodbye Mircosoft Windows 3.x

Author JoeDigital

Say Farewell to Microsoft Windows 3.x

If you’ve noticed, the not so new OS of Windows 3.x (yes, the one with 7MB hard disk space, 640 KB RAM, a VGA video card that runs on a 10MHz 8086 CPU) is currently selling on eBay for as low as $4. There’s a reason for that: it’s shutting down. Yes, Microsoft has officially declared that Windows 3.x is no longer for sale.

It’s about time, though, since even the Windows XP is slowly giving way to Vista and its more innovative counterparts, and it would be a shame if it went out first before the REALLY old OS dies out.

Because of this, supermarkets and other simple calculating machine-reliant establishments that use cash registers and ticketing systems are going to have to upgrade their OS to at least the next available one in order to ensure their own maintenance and support from Microsoft. Although it seems that it’s a bit of an inconvenience, it’s actually one big step for technology today.

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