-=> On 12-03-02 23:04, Michael Grant wrote to Jay Fuller <=-

 JF>  Also, how do you feel about the discontinued support for nt-4 ?

 MG> Well, since Win 2000 is in reality Win NT v5.0, I guess it was
 MG> inevitable. I must say, for it's age (released in 1996) it sure was
 MG> advanced for it's time. After struggling with mail hubbing
 MG> and 24/7 BBS stuff for a few years with Win 95 and then Win
 MG> 98, I now sure wished I'd started out with NT in the first
 MG> place. I tried Linux along the way, and I liked it, but
 MG> BBSing under it can pretty get complicated, while NT is a
 MG> little more familiar, and older BBS stuff will still work
 MG> under it.

 MG> The way Microsoft does things, I'd say we've been pretty
 MG> lucky that they've supported it for as long as they did...

Note that Microsoft dropping support does not mean that NT4 will suddenly stop
working.

It DOES mean that MS will no longer make security patches and service packs for
it, and will take no responsibility for ensuring that new releases of its other
products (such as Office) will run on it-- in fact, they will try to ensure
that new Office releases will NOT run on it, to help motivate you to upgrade.

But as long as you're happy with the applications and peripherals you're
currently using, you can continue to use NT4 more or less forever.

I've got a school full of Win95B systems which is also no longer supported--
but see no reason (and have no budget) to upgrade the operating systems,
applications, or hardware. As long as each continues to meet the needs of the
school, its students and teachers, we'll keep using them.



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