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Re: Win98 versus 2000, XP, Longhorn, etc.
de Craig 06/21/2006 11:53
Sparkle wrote:
> Howard Schwartz wrote:
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> Win98 is my last stop along the Windows line. No updates, no patches, it
> continues to work just fine.
>
>> Any opinions whether to perpetually upgrade or when, why and how to
>> stop at a particular OS?
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> When the time comes that I need to move on, I suppose it'll be Linux.
>
> Amazes me that people are willing to be specimens under the MS
> microscope. And every few years, when MS says it's time, they pay again
> to keep themselves there.
"Specimen under the MS microscope?" Feh, I call sour grapes.
Help me out. I can only find three reasons to avoid MS OSes:
- lack of interest
- not a requirement
- it's a "religious" thing
The rest is black helicopters & tin-foil beanies.
And MS operating systems have done more to light a fire under the
collectively moribund arses of Unix shops than even Linux. Linux didn't
sucker-punch DEC, WANG, & the rest. Windows did. Gawd-awful warts &
all. The only shop to come close to supporting as many off-the-rack
hardware combinations as MS was SCO. And you see to what they've been
reduced.
But then, I'm biased. I /love/ computers. Hardware, firmware, software
& floppies (yea, **it happens). I lust for the intel core duo L2400,
miss my TRS80 and, regularly ravage my GRUB. OMFG...I'm hooked!
(pssst, hey mister...wanna nickel-bag of 8011.2 pre-n? It's good
stuff...uncut.)
-Craig