Tim Streater wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Tim Streater wrote
Adrian C wrote
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?

That's certainly the preferred scenario.

Taint gunna happen. Apple has always had a pathological
objection to supporting anyone's hardware but their own.

Course it would. Then all these windows clowns will have to go out and buy a Mac.

Nope, everyone shipping Win on what they build hardware
wise would continue to do so and the bought Microsoft would
have to continue to honour the legal agreements they had with
the operations flogging hardware before MS was bought.

Simples.

Fantasy, actually. They dont even all buy ipads, plenty buy android stuff anyway.

And all those trillions of Windows support guys can start doing something productive.

Just another silly little fantasy.