Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic terms

Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:

On 21/02/2025 7:42 am, Frank Slootweg wrote:

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

 
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I've been on both sides of the fence. When current software wouldn't
install/run on my Windows 7 box it became a Linux box.

 
   I think this calls for a famous quote from a newsgroup, a long, long
time ago:
 
Supported, known to work                -> warm fuzzies all around
Supported, known to not work            -> an <redacted>ite is in trouble
Unsupported, known to work              -> lucky today, unlucky tomorrow?
Unsupported, not known to not work      -> there but for the grace of Turing
Unsupported, known to not work          -> no, it was not deliberate ;-)
 
[Hi Rick!]
 

Hmmm! Is that, sort of, like Iraq War??
 
There are Known Knowns.
There are Known Unknowns.
There are Unknown Knows, and,
There are Unknown Unknows!!
c. Early 1990, so GW Bush Snr or his Defence Boss. ;-P

  Could be. Perhaps the author was inspired by it, but I doubt it,
because it's a totally different subject matter.

  BTW, Wikipedia says the 1990-1991 war was the 'Gulf War' and
'Operation Desert Storm' or, later, referred by some as the 'First Iraq
War'.

  I looked it up, because to me, the 'Iraq War' is the 2003 one.
Wikipedia agrees with me and so they should! :-)

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_(disambiguation)>