Microsoft has announced plans to kill off Windows for Workgroups (WFW) 3.11 just weeks after ending the sale of Windows XP to consumers.

WFW has been unavailable to consumers for many years but certain software is licensed for use in embedded devices for much longer.

But a Microsoft employee has now revealed that it will be discontinued from 1 November 2008.

"For those that were not aware, we recently announced that effective November 1st 2008 OEMs will no longer be able to license WFW 3.11 in the embedded channel," said John Coyne, of Microsoft's OEM Embedded devices group, in his blog.

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