On Wednesday 05 February 2003 05:05 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 05 Feb 2003 9:03 am, James Sparenberg wrote: > > Great..... after september 30 this year I won't have a single > > supportable box.... Ummmm Gentlemen..... Are you going to give me new > > laptops with my 9.1 distro? It wouldn't be a problem if I could manage > > to get software that would last as long as my hardware... well... let's > > see 8 years on Win95 ... 6 on 98 ...... hmmmm me thinks the product > > life cycle is toooooooo short. if you are under the impression that M$ has an 8 year product suport for win95, you might try asking M$ what support they offer for win95, and consider that sept 2004 win95 will be 8 years old, as it was 1 year old in 1996....
> > Could someone clarify, please? Does this mean that there will be no > security fixes after those dates? If those continue we would be no worse > off than with any windows distro. After all, if it works for us now it > will continue to do so. But without security updates it's a whole new ball > game. > > Anne
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