NWRMidnight
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- Jun 18, 2001
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The only thing I want to say is to the people that keep saying MS isn't forcing people to ugrade, or buy there new OS's.
This is actually not true in a matter of speaking, if MS wasn't trying to force it's users to upgrade, they wouldn't have dropped there support for windows 98, by doing this, they are doing everything they possibly legally can to force us to upgrade. To me that is like a car manufacturing telling me that they are going to discontinue supporting there 1998 models, so you won't be able to get any new parts, manuals, or anything on that car. Basically, they are forcing you to upgrade to a new car to get "support" for it (new parts, etc), I know I'd be pissed if I had to go buy a new car to be able to put the newest car stereo in it, or to get it to work properly! If you have a problem with windows 98 or have new hardware, and if it requires MS's help to fix it, or create a patch for it, you are SOL, and will be forced to upgrade to get your problom fixed.
Think about it, Valve is still updating Half-life for free (and how old is that game), and it is a GAME, not the heart of the software side of the computer such as is the OS.
Window Me support is due to end sometime this year If I remember correctly, so what will your choices be then, windows 2000 or windows XP if you choose MS?
So think about it, in my opinion, if you want to take advantage of new hardware and such, MS is forcing you to upgrade to there new OS. I wouldn't be suprised if windows 2000 losses support next year, where does that leave you?
Well, I'm off to go buy me a new car, so I can get my new stereo to work right! Damn, and my car is only 4 years old......
Daniel
This is actually not true in a matter of speaking, if MS wasn't trying to force it's users to upgrade, they wouldn't have dropped there support for windows 98, by doing this, they are doing everything they possibly legally can to force us to upgrade. To me that is like a car manufacturing telling me that they are going to discontinue supporting there 1998 models, so you won't be able to get any new parts, manuals, or anything on that car. Basically, they are forcing you to upgrade to a new car to get "support" for it (new parts, etc), I know I'd be pissed if I had to go buy a new car to be able to put the newest car stereo in it, or to get it to work properly! If you have a problem with windows 98 or have new hardware, and if it requires MS's help to fix it, or create a patch for it, you are SOL, and will be forced to upgrade to get your problom fixed.
Think about it, Valve is still updating Half-life for free (and how old is that game), and it is a GAME, not the heart of the software side of the computer such as is the OS.
Window Me support is due to end sometime this year If I remember correctly, so what will your choices be then, windows 2000 or windows XP if you choose MS?
So think about it, in my opinion, if you want to take advantage of new hardware and such, MS is forcing you to upgrade to there new OS. I wouldn't be suprised if windows 2000 losses support next year, where does that leave you?
Well, I'm off to go buy me a new car, so I can get my new stereo to work right! Damn, and my car is only 4 years old......
Daniel