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Re: [News] Windows 98: Microsoft Shoots Own Foot, Linux to Gain

__/ [ Erik Funkenbusch ] on Tuesday 11 July 2006 21:59 \__

> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:08:30 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> Microsoft Is Shooting Itself In The Foot, Again
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| I think that Microsoft has grown arrogant and greedy enough to ignore
>>| the fact that there are many PC users that still run Windows 98 and
>>| Windows ME. With security updates and patches ceasing to appear for the
>>| Windows 9x clone the left-behind users might be compelled to switch to
>>| Linux (in fact this very realization prompted Microsoft to extend the
>>| support for Windows 98 and ME from the original cut-off date of
>>| January 2004).
>> `----
>> 
>>
http://techsearch.cmp.com/blog/archives/2006/07/microsoft_is_sh.html?loc=software_and_web_development
> 
> So, when was the last time a patch was released for Red Hat 4?  Suse 3?
> Mandrake 5?
> 
> Windows 98 is 8 years old.  No linux vendor is still supporting systems
> they sold that long ago.

Upgrades are free; requirement barriers are merely unchanged owing to
modularity and customisation. Last followup, but it was so obvious, so it
had to be stated.

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