AZ{at}>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245449/Microsoft_retreats_from_X
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 AZ{at}>> http://goo.gl/DPMzwu

 DS>   I still can't afford to upgrade...not on a fixed income.
 DS>   Microsoft is just another example of corporate greed.

 Back in the "old days" we used to talk about planned
 obsolescense, in automobiles. I never believed they could plan
 for cars to start dying after any particular time, but the
 certainly can with software.

 I'm with you. First because Win 8 is too expensive to buy as an
 upgrade from something that does the job quite well, and second,
 because upgrading software is going to be expensive also.

 It's not just the cost of the software, but all too often the
 hardware has to be upgraded also. IOW, you buy a new computer.
 Mine is from 2002 and it still does the job. Why buy a new one?
 It's not like I'm watching HD movies on the net, nor playing
 high end games.

 And it's not just a fixed income, which I am on, but also way
 too many people have low incomes that don't allow for
 unnecessary spending to replace equipment that works quite well.
 Esp in a time of high unemployment and falling incomes we don['t
 need one more unnecessary expense.

 I would like to know, if MS knew there were security flaws in
 XP, which they had to in order to eliminate them in Win 7 or Win
 8, then why not eliminate them in Win XP? Not eliminating them
 should make then liable for the costs of those security flaws.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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