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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic terms
Date: 20 Feb 2025 20:42:15 GMT
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 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. 

  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!]