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  • Ray Austin
    MURCer
    • Jan 2003
    • 240

    #1

    Windows 98 support shifts to CD

    Windows 98 support shifts to CD

    Time flies.......
  • Brian Ellis
    Super MURCer
    • Sep 1999
    • 9623

    #2
    So MS are leaving a quarter of its clients totally in the lurch! Typical

    I still have W98 on 2/4 computers, one dual boot and the other a laptop which refuses upgrading. In fact, this is being typed on a W98 'puter, because I have some legacy software and hardware which will not work on W2k or XP.

    However, it is unlikely that I'll need service from MS.
    Brian (the devil incarnate)

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    • Ray Austin
      MURCer
      • Jan 2003
      • 240

      #3
      yeah no better way to get money out of people other than a gun to the head.

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      • traveller
        MURCer
        • Mar 2000
        • 145

        #4
        I wonder what people can do if Ford for example could say it stops support its cars older then 6 years.
        I'm sure the selling could decrease strongly.
        But in the car business tere are a free market.
        Opposite to OS
        IMHO people help to reach a monopoly level by Microsoft.
        And now there are results ...

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        • Kris1
          MURCer
          • Feb 2003
          • 103

          #5


          Seems there's a delay in death row : it would still be supported till 2006 for as far as this article is to be trusted, or MS changes its mind again.

          Take Care,
          Kris

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          • Flying dutchman
            MURCer
            • Sep 1999
            • 716

            #6
            Same thing here:
            Resistance is futile - Microborg will assimilate you.

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            • Fred H
              Super MURCer
              • Nov 1999
              • 962

              #7
              ...and, what do you think about Matrox's support of Marvel G400 ?
              Is it better? Ohhhh...
              Fred H
              It ain't over 'til the fat lady sings...
              ------------------------------------------------

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              • Ray Austin
                MURCer
                • Jan 2003
                • 240

                #8
                Originally posted by Flying dutchman
                Same thing here:
                http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1073922567.html

                Yeah, it seems MSFT changed their minds due to protest of users and because Win98 has a very large installed base, MSFT feared that users would switch to Linux.

                Using the mentality that the longer someone uses their software the less likely a user would be to switch to a competing one.

                Yeah right......

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