Yeah, I agree with Ernie.  Microsoft is a business after all.  Their founder is the philanthropist, but that's his own cash he's spending.

HP's printers used to be be bomb proof, but that proved to be a poor business model.  Why by another printer if the decade old one still works with my computer and spits out paper?

Oh wait, Rob Rohr chimed in.  Gotta go!  ;-)

On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Ernie Buford wrote:

> Extended support for XP through April 2014?  What other software do you run that was released in 2001?
> 
> I like to bash M$ as much as the next guy, but that timeline seems generous to me.  Let's move on!  ... then again, I see that Windows 2000 still has a 6% market share -- larger than Linux and Mac OS combined.
> 
> On 2/4/2010 1:58 PM, Victor Rossi wrote:
>> http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/10/16/windows-7-like-it-or-not/ 

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