Robert Newson wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
> ...
>>> What if you want to keep your old operating systems, such as Windows
>>> 2000, running as long as possible?
>>>
>>> Microsoft isn't making it easy for you. Office 2007 and the software
>>> for the company's much-hyped Zune music player won't install on
>>> Windows 2000.
Maybe they will - maybe they won't. Edit an .msi file in Orca, change the
LaunchCondition entry, and many apps that say XP only will install on
Windows Server 2003. I've done it a bunch of times.
>>> As other new products emerge from Microsoft in 2007
>>> and beyond, more and more of them are likely to leave Windows 2000
>>> out of the party.
That's about 7 years of support. Sounds good to me, especially compared to
Novell, which dropped support for Suse 8.0 just two years after introducing
it.
> In which case you'll be looking towards OSS replacements that will
> work[1]
Who will be looking?
What replacement will work as well as Office 2007?
> [1] Just not in the US due to the software patent problem there...
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