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Longhorn: A Long Road to Nowhere?

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ShawnD1:

--- Quote from: sime ---Don't you always, just as you always slag off your previous OS prior to the release of a new one to increase sales
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When have they ever done that? All versions of DOS were the same, so that's not it. Windows was based on DOS, so that wasn't it. Windows 95 was still getting patches for things such as sockets at late as 2003. The latest Windows 98 patch I can find was from 7/8/2003. Windows 2000 is still supported.

When has MS ever abandoned the previous version?

Aloone_Jonez:
Well you obviously haven't read this thread yet.

ShawnD1:
The article mentioned doesn't speak of bashing XP. Maybe I'm alone here, but I tend to think there is a difference between "our new product is better" and "our old product sucks balls".

Simon:

--- Quote from: ShawnD1 ---When have they ever done that? All versions of DOS were the same, so that's not it. Windows was based on DOS, so that wasn't it. Windows 95 was still getting patches for things such as sockets at late as 2003. The latest Windows 98 patch I can find was from 7/8/2003. Windows 2000 is still supported.

When has MS ever abandoned the previous version?
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Windows is more than Based off DOS, for a long time, Windows was just a GUI for DOS. I think that it's standalone OS now, but I might be wrong.

Aloone_Jonez:
It's Windows NT not, Windows 2000 was NT5.0 and XP is NT5.1, all that fucking money for just a minor upgrade.

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