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Admitedly not explicitely on this thread but I have posted before agreeing that keeping old hardware and software alive is a good hobby. It is also utterly irrelevant to the discussion regarding M$ and Mozilla dropping support for OSs and architectures and the issues that may cause people doing day-to-day computing. |
Support for older operating systems is "sunsetted" because it's too expensive – or, not possible – for software vendors to keep them up-to-date. In several cases in the history of the Windows OS, "deep dive" changes were made to the fundamental architecture of the system, which could not be carried forward and without which security (etc.) could not be achieved. It is not possible to "retrofit" these changes into earlier versions of the system. "XP" is a 32-bit OS and it always will be, and so on.
And then ... there is "Windows 10!" :rolleyes: |
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XP 64 was for Itanium (IA-64 architecture) not amd64 (x86_64).
XP x86_64 was released much later and as I recall based on Server 2003. Both are so uncommon, especially to home desktop/laptop PC users, they barely warrant a mention... |
It's microcoughed-losedough$ vrs Linux so Xpee (DEAD) is irrelevant in the long... not that I mind some off topic.
Where as "unsupported" Linux is still supported. ;) |
Edit: Last edited by jamison20000e; Today at 06:40 AM. Reason: Forgot the quotes for whatever "unsupported" i$‽
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I told Comcast (Xfinity) to go to hell many years ago. My "land" line, thank you very much, is optical. Courtesy of "the local phone company." :) |
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Microsoft's "home edition" hobble-horses were ... "very strange ... very strange, indeed." I have no idea why they bother. |
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Wouldn't you prefer to drive a GMC "Professional Grade Truck" rather than a plain old Chevy pickup? :) |
It was, but it was more about collusion between MS and Computer sellers. They had a contract to supply an OS to the makers that would be pre-installed, so they provided a cut down version that was supposed to be simple and left out things like much of the networking services so was cheaper.
In fact it turned out to be harder to support than the "commercial" version PRO and was SO different that people who used XP Pro at work often struggled to switch to the Home version. I only ever used HOME to support people that used it and even after years of experience, I found it very confusing and difficult to use.. |
No one can rip off and pirate GNU\Linux, superiority reached! ;)
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I discovered Seamonkey by using Puppy Linux and have it on both my OpenBSD boxen.
I normally use Firefox on everything, mostly for the extensions, but it comes in handy at times having more than one browser. |
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