On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 08:57:52PM -0400, John wrote:
On July 20, 2016 7:19:35 PM EDT, Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 09:17:52AM -0700, Spencer wrote:
Microsoft would lose a large part of its market share in the business and consumer markets
I am confident that even after the collapse, businesses running 98 and XP will still be paying for support q:
I never understood why folks upgraded from WfWG3.1 - 98 was -never- as stable, except when nothing was installed (including drivers). Not to mention those ghastly green hills...
Actually, it was WfWG 3.11, to be precise. I only had Windows 3.1, and lusted after the full windows for worgroups edition...
I never understood why anyone would run Windows -at all-. Linux and *BSD have both been totally usable for 20+ years now...
I did not know about Linux back then - I had actually heard about gcc and tried to download it on an old loaner PC running DOS that I had at the time, but I was getting only 1200baud! After 12 hours, reading enough to realise I'd be doing a lot of swapping just to use it, I figured I would wait until after upgrading to one of the new beaut 24/32kbps spangled modems and a better PC. A few years later someone I was working with brought in a slackware full CD set, and I was pleasantly amazed. Memory is not the best so there are probably other events in between.