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On 2023-09-29 20:55:48 +0000, Bradley said:
> On 9/30/2023 5:37 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
>>>
>>> Since XP, Windows lifecycles have been about 10 years for every major
>>> release, (with that of XP about 12 years). 10 years is OK in my book.
>>
>> XP is still in wide use - in surprising places (and isolated from the
>> internet). (I still run it too, but should be ending that in the
>> coming year or so).
>
> I also have an old Dell laptop which is wired to my USB printer/scanner.
> I never decommissioned it as it works fine as a sneakernet print server.
>
> Like you said, it`s off the grid - so no harm can be done by it existing.
> I would have updated it but with only 1/2GB of RAM, it can`t run Win10.
>
> Speaking of updating one Windows version with the next Windows version,
> Windows support is longer lately than you might think because Microsoft
> has not charged for the last few upgrades from older versions to newer
> ones.
>
> Each of those adds another ~ten years to the already long support period.
But nobody in their right mind wants to use Windoze for 10 minutes, let
alone ten years. It`s a badly made third-rate knock-off of MacOS,
always has been, always will be. :-p
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