Unfortunately with Windows, once support is dropped you will be increasingly vulnerable to security threats. It's the Security Updates that are the truly valuable portion of MS's support.
-Adam On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:55 PM, P. J. Alling<[email protected]> wrote: > Microsoft may drop support, but drivers will be available for some time, I > spent enough time on the bleeding edge with a number of software development > organizations, the trailing edge is much more comfortable. I wouldn't ditch > Win2K if I could still get drivers for it. I don't need help running my > systems, that kind of support is usually worse than useless, I need support > for new hardware. WinXP will have that for a number of years, maybe there > will really be Linux support for what I want by then. > > Thomas Bohn wrote: >> >> On Thu, July 9, 2009 17:52, P. J. Alling wrote: >> >> >>> >>> an XP machine with twice the speed and twice current memory >>> >> >> Microsoft will also drop the support for XP soon or they already dropped >> the support. >> >> Maybe you need something different. >> >> Thomas >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> >> > > > -- > > > The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or > drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a > damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is > not a free man any more than a dog. > > --G. K. Chesterton > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
