Microsoft ready to obsolete previous Windows versions

SEVERAL VERSIONS of software which Microsoft once hailed as miracles in their day are set to enter the knacker's yard real soon now.

Microsoft "support" for Windows 98SE and Windows 98 finished at the end of June and in mid January 2004 will be declared to be obsolete.

And the ground-breaking "Millennium" edition of the operating system will receive no Vole succour after the 31st of December next, Hogmanay. If you want support for Millennium, it's going to cost you in 2004.

Meanwhile, the venerable Windows NT - "Cutlerware" - stops having hot fixes on Hogmanay too, and Microsoft will only supply critical hot fixes during 2004. It will define what critical hot fixes are.

Although Microsoft assured us when these products were launched that they were the best thing since Black Bun, this could explain why there is a general moratorium on security problems in December.

After all, in 2004 Microsoft can effectively ignore any bugs that exist in these dinosaur operating systems.

It makes sense for you all to upgrade. Didn't you realise that? µ

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