Who needs them? I have an old Dell laptop that came with XP. My son used
it for years until it got all wonky from lord-only-knows what websites he
went to. I took it back and found it had the OS disks, so I reformatted the
HD and reinstalled the OS. Nice clean install with none of the commercial
crap. Boots up fast and runs like a stripped ape. I never go online with
it, but use it to do word processing, geneology and play Myst or Riven from
time to time.
Charlie
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Highly unlikely. MS just doesn't care about XP anymore, it's amazing
> they
> > > cared about it at all up until recently anyhow. It would be like Apple
> > > still pretending to care or trying to support Mac OS 7 or something.
> The
> > > time to move on from XP was years ago.
> >
> > Or iOS 6
> >
> >
> Microsoft was forced into caring much longer than they wanted to because
> Vista was a disaster and no company in its right mind wanted to convert
> thousands of desktops and applications to Vista when XP was by that point
> fairly solid and reliable.
>
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> Paul Braun
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>
> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- Berthold
> Auerbach
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