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From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in
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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:48:03 +0000
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On 21 Feb 2025 02:11:58 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:25:11 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:40:12 +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> > 
> >> Johnny LaRue to CrudeSausage:
> >> 
> >>> And let's face it.  To have any future at all, Windows desperately
> >>> needs to move forward.
> >> 
> >> Progress for the sake of progress is meaningless.
> > 
> > Particularly when most of what seems to be called “progress” these days
> > (at least in the proprietary world) seems to be about promotion of new
> > GUI fashions.
> 
> Like the women's fashion industry the new Guis are what was popular 10 
> years ago. Are we past flat and back to skeuomorphic yet?

semi-transparent is like so cool!
-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.