Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I don't believe that Microsoft is still providing updates for Win98. But I > think Windows 2000 might still be in use Definitely. The mail server belonging to a company that pays me for embedded Linux work runs on Windows 2000. I moved it to a virtual machine about 1 year ago - it's still in use. > - I for example have a Win 2000 > installation on my ThinkPad T23, although I didn't boot it for about a > year or so. Has it been tested against Windows 2000? I digged for the mail > where you said something about against which Windows versions you tested, > but I didn't find it anymore. Heh. I still use Windows 95 and Windows 98 occasionally. I'm a bit disappointed to find Samba no longer tests against them :-) I wouldn't be surprised if Windows ME has fewer users than 98. 98 had a reputation for being the best of the non-NT series. > > When the vendor of an operating system doesn't even bother to display > > a clean "sorry, you don't get updates any more" page for their OS then > > I think it is safe to say that the operating system is dead and > > buried. > > It is safe to say much. But still users might not behave according to your > saying or might even not be able to. A potential customer asked us to > migrate a Windows 98 installation into a virtual machine, cause the > software that is running there would not run with any newer version of > Windows. Sometimes people are locked / forced to a specific Windows (or > Linux) version at least is they do not want to pay lots of $$$ to replace > their proprietary special hardware + software combination by something > which is supported on a newer version of an operating system. And for a > coincidence I think digital photos have been involved in that use case. I think you've described commercial ancient Windows users. But I suspect there are more non-commercial users - that ancient PC someone has in their home which is good enough at running Word 2 for _their_ word processing needs. You know the sort of thing: ancient 14-inch CRT still going strong, friend probably replaced the disk 5 years ago and cloned the original working OS, fan's getting a bit noisy but the old clunker isn't worth replacing just yet. -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
