From: "Geo." 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
news:op.trj2f1hjm6tn4t{at}dellblack.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...

>>I'm well aware that they are out there.  My point was simply that, at some
point, they will no longer be available even from the sources your provided.<<

I'm not talking about someday, I'm talking about today and why people are
feeling this need to upgrade current systems to the latest and greatest
version of everything.

Back in the NT4 days, it was a question of functionality, NT4 was still
developing critical capabilities and so were the apps but by the time W2K
rolled around both the OS and the apps were mature. That need to upgrade
went away and coupled with the now quite restrictive nature of the
licenses, included DRM and copy protection, I just fail to understand this
constant need to upgrade. So I asked.

You seemed to be saying "because it's what comes on systems" but
for businesses that buy systems in quantities you can easily special order
less the hard drives if you like and still purchase the OS you want. I
guess security updates could be an issue but on an internal network even
that isn't real motivation imo.

Geo.

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