urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dyork Blog.DanYork.com Personal journal of Dan York - for my VoIP blog, see www.disruptivetelephony.com Dan York 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dyork:283428 Windows 3.11 (aka Windows for Workgroups aka WFW) finally reaches it's end... 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z <img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/jcoyne/WindowsLiveWriter/ItstheEndfor3.11_8E6D/win311logo_thumb.gif" align="right">I had to laugh in utter amazement when I read that<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jcoyne/archive/2008/07/09/it-s-the-end-for-3-11.aspx"> Windows 3.11 is finally reaching it's end</a>! Going back to the dawn of Windows, those of us around then can remember what a great thing "Windows For Workgroups" was.. wow, we could easily <em>network</em> our Windows computers!!<br /><br /><p>Man, we have come <em>SO</em> far from those days!<br /><br /><p>Amazing on one level that WFW was still kicking around in embedded systems... but on the other hand I suppose it's <em>not</em> surprising in that if you have something that works well you may as well stick with it.<br /><br /><p>Fun news, in any event...