Hello Alan.

04 Dec 02 06:58, you wrote to me:

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

Yes, but it does naturally become a smaller target for security breaches,
since those writing viruses and trojans will now turn their attention more
and more to Win XP and Win 2000.

As far as Office goes, I have no need of the latest version. I have a copy
of Office 97 Professional that has served me in good stead, and does
everything for me that I need from it.

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

It's also useful to keep old OS's because you may have old computers that
can still perform useful functions on a LAN. Even a DOS box on a 486 can
perform well as say, a file server, provided you have good networking
software on it.


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