Re: RE XP or 2000

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from Norman Bauman  on Thu, 27 Nov 2003
13:06:13 -0500


> What do you do if/when, 5 or so years from now, you have to repair your
> computer, product activation doesn't accept it, and MS tells you that they
> no longer support that version of Windows?

What do you do now if you have problems with a Microsoft product for which
support has terminated, e.g. Win95? That's planned obsolescence, literally.
They want you to upgrade, and the upgrade isn't free. Of course it would "be
easy for them (and good public relations) to post ... the de-activator patch
for the no-longer-supported software" -- but where's the money in that? Point
to *anything* valuable that Microsoft gives away, for the sake of ease or good
public relations! IE maybe? Very funny.

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Robert Holmgren
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