Since Microsoft announced stopping of support for XP, there are reports
floating around about vulnerabilities, financial losses they can cause and
why one should switch from XP etc.
"The company is leaving no stone unturned in its quest to get users off
Windows XP and hopefully onto its newer oper
On Friday, November 29, 2013 07:35:55 AM Mayuresh wrote:
> One may suspect, Microsoft itself is throwing XP vulnerabilities in the
> open to intimidate users into buying its newer versions.
yes because microsoft has financial incentive to sell the new versions and
their biggest problem is not FOS
> One may suspect, Microsoft itself is throwing XP vulnerabilities in the
> open to intimidate users into buying its newer versions.
>
As a business they don't need to use any tactics.
They have declared end-of-sale/end-of-support quite some time ago, with
enough time for people to move to later v
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 09:03:10AM +0530, Mandar Vaze / ? ??? wrote:
> As a business they don't need to use any tactics.
Eh? Every business needs to use tactics. It is not by definition a bad
word.
> They have declared end-of-sale/end-of-support quite some time ago, with
> enough time for peo
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Mayuresh wrote:
>
> The campaign is not because they care for your business loss if you are on
> XP. The campaign obviously is to increase the sales of newer versions.
>
Products go through EoL. IMO, there is nothing wrong in asking users
to use a newer version of
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:02:24PM +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Mayuresh wrote:
> >
> > The campaign is not because they care for your business loss if you are on
> > XP. The campaign obviously is to increase the sales of newer versions.
> >
>
> Products go through Eo
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 06:02:24PM +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Mayuresh wrote:
>> >
>> > The campaign is not because they care for your business loss if you are on
>> > XP. The campaign obviously is to increase the s
On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 07:44:25PM +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
> In that case I guess the OP was a NOOP? Perhaps it should have been tagged
> OT.
If the OP claimed, what MS is doing is wrong then this becomes a non OT,
is it?
This is definitely not an OT, as it talks about opportunity for FOSS, if
> > Is this a point, CIOs would be made to think about adopting FOSS systems
> > in place of Windows - both in the server and desktop space?
Something relevant for this thread
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Goodbye-Win-XP---Hello-Linux-79602.html
Mayuresh
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> Something relevant for this thread
> http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Goodbye-Win-XP---Hello-Linux-79602.html
Gartner predicts end of Unix. "The obvious replacements to HP-UX,
Solaris, AIX and other Unix variants today are Linux, Windows and
mainframe operating systems."
http://www.computerwo
On 13 December 2013 07:27, Mayuresh wrote:
> Gartner predicts end of Unix. "The obvious replacements to HP-UX,
> Solaris, AIX and other Unix variants today are Linux, Windows and
> mainframe operating systems."
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244751/As_Unix_fades_away_from_data_cente
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 12:13:42PM +0530, aag wrote:
> >
> > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9244751/As_Unix_fades_away_from_data_centers_it_s_unclear_what_s_next
> >
> >
> I liked the comments at the end of the article at the above link. Very
> interesting :)
You mean the one that says the
Hi
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Arun Khan wrote:
>
>
> On the FOSS side of the coin -- RHEL4/CentOS4 (picked as an example)
> has been EoL and it's last incarnate most likely will not have drivers
> for the new servers in the market today.
>
Not quite. Red Hat supports RHEL 4 still via the
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