Adrian C wrote:
On 11/04/2012 14:23, george [dicegeorge] wrote:

Microsoft support expirys:
xp 8april2014
win7 home 13 april 2015
win7pro 14 april 2020

so get win professional
(if i've researched it right)

However much before then, Apple will have expanded, bought Microsoft,
and all update support for Windows products will suddenly be ditched?

Nah. both will have evaporated by then. As will te desktop home PC.

Workstations - things with big monitors and proper keyboards will run
linux and noddy users will have some sort of linux based fondleslab and
all the apps will be on cloud 9.

Which they will avidly download on the three days a month the sun is
shining or the wind blowing hard enough for the internet to work.

in between hunting and eating the harry's of the world who have got them
into this mess in the first place.


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