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Subject: Re: OT: Microsoft officially murders Windows 98 in five days.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:16:18 12/10/03

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On December 10, 2003 at 10:40:25, Matthew Hull wrote:

>On December 10, 2003 at 09:46:20, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On December 10, 2003 at 03:18:22, margolies,marc wrote:
>>
>>>This is in order to comply with a settlement of the suit with Sun about Java.
>>>ref slash-dot ref msnbc.com
>>
>>
>>That's a good thing.  Windows 98 was more than slightly unstable.  XP is
>>so much better, all previous versions (ME, etc) could be killed with no
>>loss.
>
>There is some loss, especially if one must then lighten his wallet for XP Pro.
>
>Ouch.


A loss of dollars.  A great gain in time saved.  :)

I'll take the time saved by XP non-crashes here...



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