[comp.windows.ms.programmer] Windows 3.0 Runtime

alan@pluto.dss.com (Alan Warwick) (05/07/91)

	Does anyone know of a windows 3.0 Runtime ? I am developing a
windows application and want to allow users who do not have windows
to be able to run it. I vaguely remember that Microsoft Excel once came
with a windows runtime.


					Thanks in advance,

					Alan Warwick
					alan@doc.dss.com
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Thomas_Hornschuh@p1.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org (Thomas Hornschuh) (05/09/91)

AW>      Does anyone know of a windows 3.0 Runtime ? I am developing a
AW> windows application and want to allow users who do not have windows
AW> to be able to run it. I vaguely remember that Microsoft Excel once came
AW> with a windows runtime.
AW> 
 Micosoft licensed windows 2.x runtimes until ca. April 1990. With the release 
of Windows 3.0  microsoft stopped runtime licensing.
However, everybody who got a license for his product before the deadline can 
bundle the windows 2.x (!!!) runtime with his product forever.

But there are no runtime licenses for windows 3.0 I think.


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09381@tanus.oz.au (Shane Pascoe) (05/13/91)

I beleive you can make a runtime of 3.0 but Microsoft will not licence you
such to provide with you application. You can buy from them a Windows Demo
which you application can be added to and used only as a DEMO COPY.

You best bet is to contact Microsoft.

Shane Pascoe
Sydney Windows Users Group
Sydney Australia

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