================================================ Subject: Re: Multi-windozed From: "Kevin L. Brown" To: Date: Tue 7 Aug 2001 22:28:17 -0700 ================================================ There's that word "force" again. You keep using it, but I don't think it means what you think it means. What are you calling NT5? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: "Kevin L. Brown" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 7:45 PM Subject: Re: Multi-windozed > I still use Win 95 at work. NT4 has problems with running M$ products > correctly. With M$ 2000. It is incompatible to run some of our software > on at even a greater extent. > My point is that no none is seeing the need to buy XP or NT5. So windoze > is not going to support it's other Windoze versions. Their tactic is to > force people to use piss out more money to buy an incompatiblized > operating system.Since the NT5 kernel is incompatible with earlier > windoze kernels. > My hope is that people will get tired of paying for worthless upgrades > and migrate to free operating systems that are improved and shared with > others. Where there is no cost for the bug fixes. > > > Of course they're going to be discontinued. Like Windows 2.0 was. Like > > Windows 95 was. They are all eventually discontinued. > > If you have windows 3.0, you have ceased to have your compatible > > applications maintained. > > > > > > Your first claim: Microsoft is forcing you to upgrade. > > Your second claim: No one is using NT5. > > > > LISTEN .... Windows is not forcing me to upgrade. They are using tactics > to force windoze users to upgrade. > I don't see a reason to upgrade an operating system for a price. My > pinion is that Windoze ought to bring all of thier users up to a common > operating system at no cost. > I realize that more powerful computers are needed for the newer versions > to work properly. But what about the people that have ME. Which is > pre-installed on the later computers. Why not give them an upgrade for free? > > > > Pick one position and stick with it, please. Either MS is forcing you to > > upgrade or they aren't. > > > > M$ is not forcing me to upgrade. I'll have the same old crap that was > pre-installed on it at purchase. > If you are a continued windoze user. You will be forced to upgrade your > product as part of the ongoing project of M$. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" > > > >>Not my OS. I run Linux. > >> > > > >>I have heard that all of the varied "flavors" of Windoze are going to be > >>discontinued. At least in the support areas. > >> > > > >>There are plans to only support windoze XP and NT5 (AKA - Windoze 2000) > >> > > > >>That means that if you have ME, 98, NT4 (service pack 6a) or windoze 95. > >>You will cease to have your compatible applications maintained. > >> > > > >>Come on now... If they weren't gouging your eyes out. Why isn't > >>everybody running NT5? > >> > > > The key word is everybody. I see blemished reception on your part. > > > > > >>Kevin L. Brown wrote: > >> > >>>They are? How exactly are they forcing you to upgrade your existing OS? > > While M$ is contemplating required upgrades and fees. > > planning!!!! > > SEE ABOVE, planning to charge customers on a rental software. requiring > people to pay money for improvements to a blemished OS. > > > > > > > -- > We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which > people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. > Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spirtual > and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, > it's not going to do anything for you. > -- Bob Dylan, "LA Times", September 5, 1984 > > To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp