Fwd: RE: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...]

Brian,

Thank you for the clarification. I do want to be fair, even in my anger. 
My apologies to M$ concerning notice of the expiration of XP.

That said, as a typical Windows user, it never occurred to me to go to a 
Microsoft website to determine the lifecycle for XP. When I bought my 
computer, it never occurred to me that Windows versions even had 
expiration dates and there was certainly nothing in the information 
provided me with the computer to indicate that. Again, not necessarily 
blaming M$ for the lack of information, just saying I never saw it when 
purchasing my computer.

By contrast, I obtained Ubuntu by downloading it. That process 
inherently took me to the 12.04LTS website where I could clearly and 
easily see Ubuntu's plans for 12.04. This doesn't make the Canonical 
folks more virtuous than M$, but for my experience, it made for clearer 
information up front.

Virgil

> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:36:03 +0100
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> From: b.m.barker@btinternet.com
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A 
MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...]
>
> At 07:57 23/04/2014 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> >... Ubuntu clearly states on its website when 12.04 support will
> >expire, so I know going in what I'm getting into. M$ gave me no such
> >warning when I purchased my XP machine years ago.
>
> That's odd. You may want to bookmark
> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle for future
> reference. Apparently XP was originally intended to expire at the end
> of 2011 - ten years after its release - but this was postponed in
> 2007 to this month. So whenever you purchased it, you would have
> expected expiration either now or much sooner.
>
> (Er, no: I am not taking sides. But I do like to see arguments being
> based on evidence.)
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
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