[jaws-uk] Re: End of support for Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows XP Service Pack 1

  • From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:20:48 +0100

Hi Wendy,

I'm sorry to say this, but progress is progress, whether we
like it or not.

We've had to TV changes from 405 to 625 lines where those of
us with TVs had to scrap our sets.

We will have to do that again very soon when they go fully
to digital TV.

We cannot buy leaded petrol any more, so those of us driving
olders cars have had to adapt them to lead free petrol.

And I can't even smoke on a train or plane any more.

So why should software and operating system be exempt from
progress?

How many DOS users are left?

How many Windows 3.1 users are left?

Then we have 95, 98, and Millennium users.

Windows NT of various flavours.

I speak from the software developers' point of view.  Some
things you all want, just cannot be done on older hardware.
I'm afraid the majority consumer drives the market these
days.  And sadly, all too many are left behind.

George.

-----Original Message-----
From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wendy
Sharpe
Sent: 30 August 2006 22:57
To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: End of support for Windows 98,
Windows Me, and Windows XP Service Pack 1

George

Thanks for that, and I have looked at the page.  I don't
know about anyone else, but I think it is unacceptable to
stop supporting older versions of Windows.  From the page I
have just read, it looks as if all they are thinking about
is people at work.  I am sure there must be lots of people
all over the world who are still successfully using the
older versions and, perhaps for financial reasons, have not
chosen to upgrade.  New software can cost quite a lot of
money, and many people don't have the cash to spare.  If
Microsoft think that everyone in the world is going to
upgrade to their new all singing all dancing product, they
have got another think coming.  Maybe I should not talk like
this about a company, but even those of us who can afford to
change get a bit fed up with constantly having to do so.  If
you have XP service pack 1 it is free to upgrade to service
pack 2, but that is about the only thing that is free.  What
do others think?  I don't suppose there is much that we can
do about it, but we can at least have a moan.

Wendy
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