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



"larwe" <zwsdotcom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

Agreed re the first point. Disagreed re the second point - 'net security
is a constantly moving target [1] so at least MS are being reactive.

[1] Unless, of course, it's done right in the first place. Which is why
my servers run OpenBSD.

Steve
http://www.fivetrees.com


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