[NewRomeTacitus]

Thanks for representing the obnoxious viewpoint. Microsoft has enough money floating and shouldn't begrudge people trying to get by with their older operating systems. While they should reward those people's loyalty with support they choose to punish them by cutting them off if they don't cough up more cash for operating systems their computers may not be up to handling. Therefore Microsoft puts more machines into landfills before their time.

[Thoro]

Thanks for representing the obnoxious viewpoint. Microsoft has enough money floating and shouldn't begrudge people trying to get by with their older operating systems. While they should reward those people's loyalty with support they choose to punish them by cutting them off if they don't cough up more cash for operating systems their computers may not be up to handling. Therefore Microsoft puts more machines into landfills before their time.

That's part of what bothers me, the waste. I have a pile of perfectly fine 486's of all mhzs sitting on a junk shelf. Although I still have this dream about taking one of them, popping it into a self-built arcade cabinet, and having it run an old copy of MAME exclusively...if only I had the time....one day....

[Bush2000]

Thanks for representing the obnoxious realistic viewpoint.

Fixed it for you. Microsoft has enough money floating and shouldn't begrudge people trying to get by with their older operating systems.

Microsoft doesn't prevent you from installing obsolete products on your computers. That you can't buy Windows 95 at Best Buy or get a computer with DOS preinstalled on it is no different than going down to a car dealership and expecting to find the latest cars on display. Why do you guys expect Microsoft, Dell, and other companies to be any different than any other business? It's ridiculous.

While they should reward those people's loyalty with support they choose to punish them by cutting them off if they don't cough up more cash for operating systems their computers may not be up to handling. Therefore Microsoft puts more machines into landfills before their time.

Windows 95 is 9 years old. Windows 98 is 6 years old. I think that most people can appreciate that the vast majority of products that they use aren't supported by a lifetime warranty by the vendor. My advice would be to embrace reality..