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MS chooses to leave critical security hole unfixed.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: xylon ---I doubt they planned for a security fix to be impossible to add without breaking the system even more. Given that, I would have dropped support for this particular patch as well.
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They should always plan for that (and reduce the time they say they'll support stuff for in future).
xyle_one:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---They should always plan for that (and reduce the time they say they'll support stuff for in future).
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Yeah, sure. Plan for every conceivable exploit and bug that could possibly come into existence. That is totally feasible :rolleyes:
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: xylon ---Yeah, sure. Plan for every conceivable exploit and bug that could possibly come into existence. That is totally feasible :rolleyes:
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Well look what fucking happened! They broke their promise.
Don't make promises you can't keep. It would've made more sense for them to say "We'll try and support this for X years but if something crops up that we can't fix w/o breaking other stuff coming towards the end of X years, we won't fix it and we'll end support early" - or so. Afterall, this is obviously what they were thinking - it's just not what they promised (and I see exactly why they didn't say it).
mobrien_12:
I paid for Win98. I paid for it, they OWE me for their support lifecycle.
Pathos:
...hmmmm, commercial businesses can't support products forever.
Sure you paid for Win98 but did you pay directly for eternal support ?
When I buy a motorbike the company only manufactures a finite number of spare parts that they charge for. When those have run out too bad.
Redhat will do the same thing.
I would never recommend anyone in this day and age to have a non nt based version of windows connected to the net.
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