Bo Simonsen wrote in a message to Tom Walker:

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 TW> Windows 98 gets a reprive

 TW> REDMOND, Washington (AP) -- Microsoft reversed a decision to stop
 TW> support for some older Windows operating systems, saying Monday some
 TW> customers in developing countries were not aware of the change.

Heh.

 TW> Support for Windows 98 and Windows 98 S.E. had been scheduled to expire
 TW> Friday, and for Windows Millennium Edition on December 31. Under
 TW> Monday's decision, the software giant would maintain paid phone support
 TW> for the operating systems and review security threats to determine
 TW> whether it will provide customers with security patches through June
 TW> 30, 2006.

 BS> Wow! Then we can buy cheap old hardware, because people don't wonna
 BS> run a unmaintained OS.

Even now I find it very inexpensive and easy to get "older"
hardware that people just don't seem to want any more.  Judging by the way
I see some of it running m$ crap,  I can well understand why!  I've just
written a bit ago a rather long email to "support" for a given
set of web pages.  These pages are giving me an error message when I try to
select certain menu options,  saying that "my browser has been
inactive for 20 minutes or more",  never mind this was within five
minutes of me getting online.  Their pages also have a "system
checklist" function that my end _fails_ on each and every count
(except one).  Yet I know darn well that all of these capabilities are
there.  I'm just not running the software that they think I should.  Maybe
my email will give them a clue,  though I seriously doubt it.  Subj. line
said "This is bullshit"  :-)

And these people claim to want to be "Global"!

 BS> Or maybe we'll get more Linux users.. Who knows..

Yep!

 BS> I did just saw Microsoft is in to their big campain, about "showing
 BS> people the facts", but I really doubt it's the facts.

Who cares what _they_ think the facts are.  Or what their version of the
facts might look like?  I don't like their software,  or their approach to
things other than software,  for that matter.

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