Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Does anybody use Windows XP ? Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 19:16:52 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <53354695$0$2868$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <944a5cd6-c3a4-4555-956d-0e6922bea6e2@googlegroups.com> <79dde85b-280f-44cc-9494-9afd1864034f@googlegroups.com> <7x1txlhlrt.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <29f1c2a7-aaec-44e6-91ca-38fc18dc7691@googlegroups.com> <7xk3bdpycl.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <11291b6b-4b4e-4841-bab8-67c7ba2df912@googlegroups.com> <7xob0pede8.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <312f7e30-5d5a-4e42-8af9-1cb45a589de9@googlegroups.com> <7xtxagzhjn.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> <23d2f669-cb6e-46e2-a863-1f4bf4373418@googlegroups.com> <7xtxagibm7.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: CNsg4fVcCsvs3UaOgZtQCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:29248 On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:10:46 -0400, wrote: > [...] people who really are fed up with Microsoft's policy of abandoning > XP [...] Well, it only took two programmers, neither of whom worked for MS, to develop Kernelex to extend Windows 98/SE to run applications for ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, etc. In the case of XP, there are probably a handful of former MS programmers out there. They might eventually decide to help out XP users for free. Or, they might be planning to offer XP support for profit. Many, many ATMs around the world supposedly use XP. That means major banks will be in the market for mainenance and security fixes for XP. It's riskier for them to upgrade. Rod Pemberton