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Meanwhile I can still download Windows 3.11 from Microsoft's MSDN Subscription Downloads site. It's still useful too: https://hackaday.com/2019/12/23/slack-now

Meanwhile I can still download Windows 3.11 from Microsoft's MSDN Subscription Downloads site. It's still useful too: https://hackaday.com/2019/12/23/slack-now-on-windows-3-1/ https://hackaday.com/2019/12/23/slack-now-on-windows-3-1/ --------- ...though Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, and 2000, and the original release of Visual Studio 6, are all absent because of the Sun lawsuit, which prohibited all distribution of Microsoft software that contained Microsoft's opinionated Java VM - and all "J++" tooling. This even extends internally: when I was working at Microsoft I had to get special-clearance to have an admin-asssistant get me Windows 2000 burned to a CD-R so I could run Windows 2000 just so I could take screenshots of an obscure Office 2000 product for a presentation for a meeting that got cancelled. It would have been quicker just to RDP in to my home VM server and booted off my own pirated Windows 2000 ISOs lol.

runlevel1 4y ago
Microsoft is also pretty bad about removing their own videos, though. You can get a sense of that by looking at their YouTube playlists: Keynotes: (5 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQXpv_NQsPICGmKjFQ_BxpkRjFhX57V-5 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQXpv_NQsPICGmKjFQ_Bx... Commercials: (21 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXET1TSWuDoPjYljfedxrA04 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXET1TSWuDoP... Microsoft's Unboxed series: (15 videos removed) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXGj5o5DMcf_DymUkvavtYZQ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFPUGjQjckXGj5o5DMcf_... I do applaud them for keeping their old software available, though. And at least they don't seem to go after others' channels. At least as far as I'm aware.