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to: Geo.
from: John Beckett
date: 2003-12-14 10:51:40
subject: Re: Longhorn - what decade will it ship?

From: John Beckett 

And what is your upgrade policy regarding trucks? Is your
operating system older than your vehicle??

John

"Geo."  wrote in message
news::
> > to be running under Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 in
> > nearly equal measure by late 2005, he said.
>
> so?
>
> Everyone seemed to loose all perspective of upgrade cycles because Y2K
> forced a whole lot of upgrades but once that was over everyone went back to
> "why fix what ain't broke"..
>
> As but one example, what possible reason would I have to change either the
> OS or the NNTP server software for these groups? I certainly haven't seen
> anything to motivate me so about the only thing I can think of is the need
> to keep it secure, and a new version of windows is more likely to make it
> less not more secure imo.. (the more crap they add the easier it is to
> hack).
>
> Geo.

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