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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/3/2014 6:20 PM, RT wrote:<br>
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<div><big>PS: This message is being sent from a T60 laptop that is
still running Win XP Pro, many months after the supposed End
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<div><big>I did have it running as a dual-boot system with Ubuntu
for awhile but the Ubuntu OS crapped-out after a while so I
deleted the Ubuntu partition and it seems quite content to
keep plugging along on the XP OS. True, I don't use this
laptop all that often but every time I've fired it up, it's
done whatever has been required of it. It appears that all the
fuss about MS dropping support of Win XP was as over-hyped as
the Y2K fuss.<br>
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Greetings,<br>
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I am not sure what you or the hypers thought was going to happen
when support was dropped. The software is the same as it ever was,
just no longer changing from fixes by the manufacturer. Bugs or
security problems discovered in the future will not be fixed, but
that is all.<br>
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Y2k on the other hand was a large number of existing bugs which, for
the most part, were fixed on schedule. Programmers worked long hard
hours to make sure that everything went smoothly, we don't like to
hear people claiming that the whole thing was 'over-hyped', that was
the goal. Would you rather that it had been a catastrophe?<br>
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Thank You Kindly,<br>
Topher / Corwyn<br>
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Topher Belknap
Green Fret Consulting
Kermit didn't know the half of it...
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