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0 pointsCamperBob29y ago0 comments

Really? I don't see a lot of people running Windows 95 or Windows NT.

The lesson Microsoft should have learned is that if they come out with a genuinely-improved version of Windows, the user base will adopt it in good time without being herded like sheep.

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5ilv3r9y ago

My father told me a computer that I built for one of his customers running windows 95 almost 20 years ago is still running and being used daily.

I don't think they would like windows 10. :p

CamperBob2OP9y ago

That computer is probably pretty secure, too, because sometimes security by obscurity really does work.

5ilv3r9y ago

That doesn't apply here. Obscurity and obsolescence are different. It's a totally normal 486. Nothing weird about it.

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0 pointsCamperBob29y ago0 comments

Really? I don't see a lot of people running Windows 95 or Windows NT.

The lesson Microsoft should have learned is that if they come out with a genuinely-improved version of Windows, the user base will adopt it in good time without being herded like sheep.

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5ilv3r9y ago

My father told me a computer that I built for one of his customers running windows 95 almost 20 years ago is still running and being used daily.

I don't think they would like windows 10. :p

CamperBob2OP9y ago

That computer is probably pretty secure, too, because sometimes security by obscurity really does work.

5ilv3r9y ago

That doesn't apply here. Obscurity and obsolescence are different. It's a totally normal 486. Nothing weird about it.

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