[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Arne Vajhøj]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <49f356b0$0$90264$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <L%sIl.25382$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.
> 
> So what you are saying is that M$ _is_ forcing people to downgrade.

It is up to you whether you consider it a downgrade.

And it is also up to you whether you want to run an unsupported
OS or you want to get a newer version.

Arne