[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <003d8d00$0$14681$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> End of mainstream support does not mean end of security updates.
>> Security updates for XP will continue until August 4th 2014.
> 
> OK, so XP remains viable for existing systems until then.

Until someone you do business with upgrades to Office 2010 and you can
no longer read any of the files with your copy of Office 97.  Or did you
forget:  "It's the applications!!"   :-)

> 
> 
>> And when that date come I would expect that MS would sit and
>> look at the people getting effected and say "we told you". Because
>> that is what happen with Windows 98 and ME.
> 
> Or XP might become the 5.5-2 of VMS, with enough people still on it that
> the vendor has decide to offer "prior version" support for the people
> still at that version for as long as there is demand.

If there is actually anyone using Windows in a vacuum (like users of a VAX
are) that might be the case, but what windows does can't be run in that
kind of a vacuum.

bill

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