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

  • From: "Graham Page" <gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:50:15 +0100

I can understand them dropping support for Windows SP1 more in many ways.

Sp2 is free once you have SP1 so why would anyone stick with SP1 anyway?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TIDDYogg" <oggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:56 AM
Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: End of support for Windows 98, Windows Me, and 
Windows XP Service Pack 1


George, I take your point, and ask, what support does anyone get
anyway?  But XP SP1 must only be about 3 years old.  I remember there
was such an outcry when they tried this trick with Win 95 that it was
delayed a long time.  Let's hope this happens again.  Win 95/98 are far
easier to play with than XP.


George Bell wrote:
> 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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