Windows 3.0

... that is...

Yeah, I had, I had no idea because, as I said at the end of last week's episode, Limbo, for me, has always been a PC title.

I've only ever played it on PC.

Sure.

In fact, Kenny this week, weird, played it with his, with his keyboard.

Like-

... also didn't-

Yeah, it's a PC game

But, hey, but you're going, right? Windows, you gotta love it.

I remember installing Windows 3.0 and then uninstalling it.

[chuckles] I was like, "What in the hell is this?" Windows NT I've installed, Windows Server, you name it, I've installed it, uh, on somewhere.

But Microsoft is now telling people devices that are running unsupported version of Windows will stop receiving security updates after the next year's Windows update certificate rotation.

It is, yes.

Like Windows 3 or I don't care what it is, but it's-

3.1.

Yes.

Stop that.

Do you know what we...

That's how we could, we, we could solve peace in the world tomo- Microsoft could create world peace by just ending support for Windows 3.1.

Oh, I'm glad you-

Got it.

Yeah, that was, you know what? I was working there before Windows came out.

How funny is that? That is funny.

Windows 3.0, I should say.

Yeah, but you know what? I didn't like it.

I met some good people there and it just wasn't for me.

And, um, And it kept growing.

Windows 3 was okay, I guess.

And it moved on.

The beginning of the Internet was kind of heralded with Windows 95, as far as that goes, because it incorporated stuff like built-in ability to dial out to the Internet.

But by 93, it was just, I need a PC.

And from there, I learned what PCs actually ran on, and that was DOS and Windows 3 or 3.1. in the home market.

And as for what I actually did with my Amiga anyway, I spent so little time in Workbench or any productivity software that, no, no, I don't think Unix would have made me hold on to the Amiga longer, Jason, at all.

Anyway, I love weirdo machines and obscure operating system work, so keep them coming.

Hardware does kind of just improve over time, right? Software does not.

And I think you kind of famously said, like, was Windows Vista better than Windows XP, right? And I think about that with the model or...

For what I do, at least at the moment, GPT-6 is way worse, or GPT-5.

I don't know which hell we're on.

So I've been teaching and training, um, lots of different professions, finance, real estate, you name it, for over 30 years on security awareness, right? And so back in the mid-90s, I needed a computer to manage my business and to handle all the information and process credit card orders and all that stuff.

I had an IBM PS1 consultant, which was the make and model of a Windows machine, Windows 3.0, with 150 megabyte hard drive.

And I had to buy an additional card to install into the computer to connect to AOL dial-up.

back in the day

But then your technology.

If you're functioning in a Windows 8 environment, you're severely out of date and you've got critical security vulnerabilities.

If you're in an old, old Mac, an old Windows machine...

It's like driving a 1970-something Pinto, you know, with bald tires and, you know, dried belts.

If you got the right job for me now, I'm ready to say yes.

And he said, well, how about leading the MS-DOS and Windows 3.0 group? And this is while Windows 3.0 was in beta.

It's still in beta.

So this would be in November of 89.

Windows 3.0, I thought, hmm, This one could be

good.

This one seemed like it had a lot of things that I'd learned from the Mac or the Lisa or from...

But Microsoft, by contrast, was an extraordinarily well-run company.