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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-11,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic terms
Date: 21 Feb 2025 16:45:24 GMT
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Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
> On 21/02/2025 7:42 am, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
> <Snip>
> 
> >> 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.
> > 
> >    I think this calls for a famous quote from a newsgroup, a long, long
> > time ago:
> > 
> > Supported, known to work                -> warm fuzzies all around
> > Supported, known to not work            -> an <redacted>ite is in trouble
> > Unsupported, known to work              -> lucky today, unlucky tomorrow?
> > Unsupported, not known to not work      -> there but for the grace of Turing
> > Unsupported, known to not work          -> no, it was not deliberate ;-)
> > 
> > [Hi Rick!]
> > 
> Hmmm! Is that, sort of, like Iraq War??
> 
> There are Known Knowns.
> There are Known Unknowns.
> There are Unknown Knows, and,
> There are Unknown Unknows!!
> c. Early 1990, so GW Bush Snr or his Defence Boss. ;-P

  Could be. Perhaps the author was inspired by it, but I doubt it,
because it's a totally different subject matter.

  BTW, Wikipedia says the 1990-1991 war was the 'Gulf War' and
'Operation Desert Storm' or, later, referred by some as the 'First Iraq
War'.

  I looked it up, because to me, the 'Iraq War' is the 2003 one.
Wikipedia agrees with me and so they should! :-) 

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_(disambiguation)>