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| Thread ID: 34431 | 2003-06-13 01:12:00 | M$ extends Win98's life! | Kiwitas (514) | Press F1 |
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| 152099 | 2003-06-19 11:41:00 | OK if @#$%&*) Microsoft dont support my windows 98 SE I suppose I can make copies of it and install it on as many computers I want. This makes me real angry at @#$%^&* Bill Gates, as he is withdrawing support of a program which is on millions of computers. I would hazard a guess more computers have W98 and W98 SE than stupid ME and XP. tedheath |
tedheath (537) | ||
| 152100 | 2003-06-19 11:46:00 | actually the last browser stats i saw (couple of weeks ago) had XP as the most commanly used OS by a big margain. i'll have to go find it again...... | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 152101 | 2003-06-19 11:47:00 | use norton ghost ;) even thou u change hardware it should be ok. jus a lot of annoying errors drivers can be reinstalled for that reason. i used ghost from PI one laptop to another PII before. jus would not work with NT base windoze. it will not even bootup the first time. |
nomad (3693) | ||
| 152102 | 2003-06-19 11:55:00 | Steady Teddy,you might burst a blood vessel;) | Thomas (1820) | ||
| 152103 | 2003-06-19 13:45:00 | Damn straight Ted. Microsoft's/Bill's arrogance knows no bounds |
Mohammad Al-Sahaf (4008) | ||
| 152104 | 2003-06-20 03:22:00 | Tweek Windows 98 is not a browser it is an operating system. Bundled with windows is the browser software outlook express. Your browser stats are irrelevant. tedheath |
tedheath (537) | ||
| 152105 | 2003-06-20 03:26:00 | Ted, Before this starts anything, you misunderstood what tweak'e meant, which was that he had found stats using his browser that showed XP was now the most commonly used OS. Tweak'e will correct me if I'm wrong :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 152106 | 2003-06-20 04:11:00 | To reinforce what tweak'e and Terry have said, browsers will identify which operating systems they are running on, and those statistics are easily able to be captured by websites. Popular websites will therefore be able to show the relative statistics of all people visiting the site, in terms of which operating system is being used. Not really sure why people expect a product to be supported by the maker for long periods after its been superceded, it doesn't happen with many consumer goods now, why do we expect it to happen with software? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 152107 | 2003-06-20 04:27:00 | Ah-hem Goddie, I still expect my 9 year old vehicle to be able to be maintained, and to be able to buy new spares for it. There are stong comparisons between software and cars, Bill Gates said so :) This little piece from a PF1Thread (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) is a bit dated now, but the same things still apply :D |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 152108 | 2003-06-20 04:35:00 | Yes Terry, but most of the parts are from third party suppliers. And you willingly pay for them. I have recently done considerable maintenance on a 10 year old car, and none of the parts fitted were OEM in origin. If users were willing to pay, probably the software companies would keep the support going. Its just that software users seem to have an expectation of "lifetime" (as in their lifetime) free support? Its not like the software stops working when the support stops. |
godfather (25) | ||
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