Re: What's the story with the "end of XP"?



On Jun 13, 8:37 pm, Marra <cresswellave...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I suspect Win XP will be available on the likes of ebay for many
I noticed a couple of copies of Win95 on there a couple of days ago !

Win95 did not require product activation. Nor did it rely on a
constant stream of updates.

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