Dr Richard M Marshall

I've always liked to build things. Since I outgrew Lego I've been building software, development teams and most recently companies.

I'm Founder and CTO of Rapid Mobile Media Ltd in Edinburgh, Scotland. We founded the company in February 2004. We mobilise applications, but are now focussing on Ad360 Mobile Advertising Platform.

I like to think of us as creating mobile applications that people actually use, but we go much deeper than that.

This blog, however, is much more about my observations on the last frontier, the world of mobile technology. And anything else that crosses my path.


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Windows 3.1 end of life

Most people will have already consigned it to the scrap pile, but according to the BBC, support for Windows 3.1 has finally been withdrawn. I can’t imagine that many people are still using it for desktop computing, but having worked in operating systems in the past I know that people continue using systems long beyond the expected lifetime. Worse, businesses and business critical systems become dependent on it, along with source-less software and hardware so old it is literally falling apart. When doing new stuff with technology isn’t your main focus, pretty much anything that gets the job done will do!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 5th, 2008 at 3:05 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Windows 3.1 end of life”

  1. Geoff Ballinger Says:
    November 5th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    Of course for real retro computing some MS-DOS variants are still actively provided as part of MSDN - 6.0 and 6.22 I think.

    Wonder how many embedded systems are still rolling out based on those - a scary number I imagine.

    G.

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