Look at the old windows, it’s stopped now.
Do you remember Windows 3.11 ? The first Microsoft Windows with it’s first Graphical User Images?
Finally Microsoft decided to officially “shutdown it” by stopped issuing licenses for the software. Windows 3.11 started its debut on May 1990 in the US. It makes Microsoft set the trends for how it makes revenues, and drives the company until the present day.
For many computer users 3.x was the first Windows-based operating system they used, and the software established the iconography of Microsoft’s flagship product.
As it was updated the software started to make PCs a serious rival to Apple machines, as it could take advantage of much improved graphics, had a broader colour palette, and could use multimedia extras such as sound cards and CD Rom drives.
Microsoft maintained support for Windows 3.x until the end of 2001, and it has lived on as an embedded operating system until 1 November 2008.
As an embedded system, it was used to power such things as cash tills in large stores and ticketing systems.
One of its more glamorous uses as an embedded operating system is to power the in-flight entertainment systems on some Virgin and Qantas long-haul jets.
Goodbye 3.11, I’m not gonna miss you 
Here are the sources of this post :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ go/ rss/ -/ 1/ hi/ technology/ 7707016.stm
http://www.jasonslater.co.uk/2008/11/05/so-long-windows-3x/
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Wrong!
Sorry, but windows 1.0 was the first microsofts windows with a graphical interface.
It gradually evolved into windows for workgroups 3.11
Then they totally redesigned it and called it windows 95
Then they poached a team of senior DEC operating system programmers, who developed windows NT (which was similar to DEC VMS). Unlike prior MS OS’s this was a proper multitasking OS.
NT evolved into win 2000, XP, etc
Hi, Thanks for the corrections..
I just know a bit about windows 1.0, I think its just a failed product.. I never heard it goes to the market..Maybe you can give us some screenshot?