On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:08:05AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > On 9/11/2013 08:59, John Long wrote: > >On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 08:49:14AM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > >>Only 7 months left of MS support: http://goo.gl/dtpQj4 > > > >So what? > > After the EOL date, XP will quickly start bit rotting.
Given my copy is about 13 years old and still perfectly usable and has been running as-installed with exactly two KBs applied I really don't know what difference it makes if it's EOLd or not. Auto-update is the first thing that gets turned off on any Winstall I've ever done. There's a long list after that. > Another fun problem with Win2K now is that if you're in a part of > the world where DST rules changed in the past few years (e.g. USA) > the time will be off during part of the year, since the time zone DB > isn't being updated any more. But we're not talking about Win2K which had a much shorter shelf life and was obsolete a lot faster than XP was. Everything I need XP for (VPN and some apps for work), and everything a few million other people need it for already works. > Software can't go unmaintained indefinitely without consequences. Each piece of software has an independent and unknown lifetime and in this case for many if not most users the consequences of going without maintenance are preferable to throwing money down the toilet on a crappier, more bloated version. Most people are either going to get something newer against their will if they buy a new PC or will stay with what they have until their hardware catches on fire. Bottom line is a lot of people are using XP and will not "upgrade" and it is really not appropriate for anybody to lecture them about doing it. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04 _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
