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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic
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Date: 20 Feb 2025 19:58:39 GMT
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:16:06 +0300, Anton Shepelev wrote:

> rbowman:
> 
>> Sure, hackers can figure out what does or doesn't work.
>> Commercial software creators don't want to deal with 'maybe it will
>> work most of the time'.
> 
> Then add a disclamer instead of crippling the software because it /might
> not/ work on older OSes or hardware.

Yeah, that works so well. You can add a 30 point disclaimer that 
FireAardvark may not work on Windows 8 and the users will still bitch long 
and loud when it doesn't. In the rare case they submit a bug report bamboo 
slivers under the fingernails will be required before they'll admit they 
tried to use it on Windows 8.

I've been on both sides of the fence. When current software wouldn't 
install/run on my Windows 7 box it became a Linux box.