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

Agreed, Jay.

I learned about the XP support expiration on the evening news a few 
months ago. Until then, it never occurred to me that M$ would stop 
supporting its OS. That thought wasn't on my radar screen, which 
probably (and fairly) says more about me and my (lack of) computer 
knowledge than it does M$.

But, I find it truly offensive when M$ ceases to support XP and then 
suggests that I buy a new computer so that I can have 8.1. I would buy a 
Mac before doing that.

Virgil



> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:09:34 -0400
> From: jslozier@gmail.com
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Windows lifecycle [was: CONVERTING A 
MICROSOFT TEMPLATE ...]
>
>
> On 04/23/2014 09:36 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
> > 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
> >
> I think the real point is the MS is not providing a reasonable upgrade
> for many users. Both in terms of cost and ease. Many with XP can not run
> W8 at all and have three options: continue to use XP, replace the
> computer which is still working, or replace the OS with a Linux distro.
> Since most Linux distros are free, replacing XP with Linux is the
> cheapest option and viable for many. Also, there is no direct upgrade
> path from XP to W7 and I assume this is true for W8 also. Thus, XP has
> to installed first then it is wiped out by the new OS which means all
> the applications and data must be reinstalled (after first saving the
> data).
>
> Virgil noted he knew about the expiration of XP which is not the real 
issue.
>
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> Jay Lozier
> jslozier@gmail.com
>
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