[Info-vax] Some good news !

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In article <49f369ae$0$90263$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>>> In article <L%sIl.25382$Ws1.8368 at nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>, Michael 
>>>> Austin <maustin at firstdbasource.com> writes:
>>>>> JF Mezei wrote:
>>>>>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Most likely not the end. They have little debt and are still
>>>>>>> making a profit. Not exactly bankruptcy material.
>>>>>> I think Microsoft's biggest challenge is adapting to a slower
>>>>>> replacement cycle for PCs and a population that is no longer eager to
>>>>>> line up a full day to be the first to get their hands on an upgrade.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think that corporations hanging on to XP is a big sign of that.
>>>>>>
>>>>> MS is trying to fix that... I was loafing around at <bigboxstore> 
>>>>> last evening and in a conversation with one of the PC sales folks, 
>>>>> they said a month or so ago, MS came in and basically grabbed all of 
>>>>> their XP stock and replaced it with Vista.  I suppose they got tired 
>>>>> of everyone "hanging on" to XP.
>>>>
>>>> So M$ is forcing people to downgrade.
>>>
>>> Mainstream support on Windows XP ended April 14th. The only
>>> updates that will still come for XP is security updates.
>>>
>>> Not that surprising that MS does not want to sell a product where
>>> they are stopping normal support.
>> 
>> That won't stop me from running W/XP until the CD turns to dust!  I've 
>> been using it for four or five years now.  It works!  I have heard 
>> nothing about Vista that would make me want to upgrade.  If and when I 
>> get a new PC, I may very well just install W/XP on it!
>
>If you can get drivers for XP for the hardware.
>
>Especially in laptops is is becoming common with only Vista drivers.

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