[pchelpers] Re: cutoff date for SP1

Hi Ekhart,

Wednesday, April 27, 2005, 12:17:35 AM, you wrote:

EGlnl> So, what cutoff date are you saying or guessing for XP SP1? I
EGlnl> would guess that security patches for it will not be provided
EGlnl> for long because it's (unnecessary) extra work for MS and
EGlnl> because SP1 leaves users even more open than SP2 to the kind of
EGlnl> problems like spyware etc. that are causing large numbers of
EGlnl> users to discover open source software due to their switch to
EGlnl> Firefox. Once customers taste freedom through Firefox, they
EGlnl> start discovering OpenOffice and Linux and start thinking of
EGlnl> dropping the small, sloppy, and expensive world of MS
EGlnl> completely.

The date is in the list: "17-Sep-2006".  That's the date that I was
referring to when I said that they'd be dropping it like a rabid
skunk...

-- 
Scott.




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