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:

>

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:
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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??
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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

  That was in 2003 or later, Sec. Rumsfeld regarding the invasion of
Iraq under GWB, not the elder Pres. Bush in the '90s.