Dotan Cohen wrote:
I do not think that they can expect security updates or new features, but I doubt that the OS will 'stop working' in the sense that it does when one does not activate it. If a company or individual wants to use an unsupported OS, then why not? I know of people still using Amigas, and those haven't been supported for over a decade.
Well, we stopped using Windows 98 at and upgraded to XP because increasingly new software didn’t always run properly on Windows 98. It wasn’t worth the hassle of not upgrading.
We did have a few Windows 2000 machines around because you couldn’t easily get Windows 98 any more.
It feels safer to know that you can still get the old operating system (XP) and not be forced to buy a newer, but more annoying system (Vista), especially if a few of your own killer aps don’t yet run on Vista properly. (And those aps probably don’t run on Linux or the Macintosh at all.)
Recall the fuss when Windows announced they would be ceasing to supply Visual Basic. So how to you now get a legal copy of the supposed outmoded Visual Basic for the new programmer you just hired, if you want to keep using the product and want to be legal?
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