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6 Sep 2024 07:15:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: stupid XP SP3...needs to piss off a little  
From: Chambers
Date: 4 Apr 2009 06:31:35
Message: <49d73707@news.povray.org>
On 4/1/2009 11:31 AM, Warp wrote:
> [GDS|Entropy]<gds-entropy    AT    hotmail   DOT  com>  wrote:
>> I'd be happy to stay with xp pro...but MS seems hellbent on forcing the
>> issue with pissta, and that I do not like..
>
>    That's one of the problems with Windows: You are more or less forced to
> submit to whatever whims Microsoft may have today. (The only other
> alternative is not never upgrade your system, leaving you wide open to
> any discovered security holes.)

That's one of the problems with providing commercial software: you have 
to actually pay your support staff!

MS can't (or won't) afford the staff to support 3 versions of Windows 
simultaneously, so they're trying to cut down.

Makes perfect sense to me.

-- 
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com


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