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Windows 2000 - Nine Months to Live

HeUnique writes "According the this story at The Register, Microsoft is planning to retire Windows 2000 as far as OEMs concerned. MS has asked OEMs to stop immediately the shipment dual-boot systems running Win2k/WinXP, so your choice now is either to upgrade to XP or else." Only if you're ordering systems running Microsoft Windows, though.

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  1. Re:DTABN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I prefer to post anonymously. Don't worry, It'll be at -1 soon.

    Furthermore, death to all black niggers.

    Also, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." Leviticus 18:22

  2. Re:Win2k and Common English by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    someone set us up the bomb!

  3. What?! They haven't released a XP server version? by Mustang+Matt · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    They haven't released any sort of XP server have they?

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  4. Re:DTABN by jonnythan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As opposed to the white niggers?

  5. Re:DTABN by MjDascombe · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Heh, the best part is that your comment is still at 0, and my responce got modded down to -1, as flamebait. Such is the stupidly backward world of /.

  6. Re:DTABN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, someone wasted a mod point on my post and then posted. Someone just modded it down again.

    I should also mention death to all black niggers.

  7. Re:DTABN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Congratulations on replying with your +1 bonus you dumb fuck. I hope you get AIDS and die a slow, painful death.

    Death to all black niggers.

  8. Re:Win2k and Common English by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Are you Wesley Willis?

    Death to all black niggers.

  9. Re:Win2k and Common English by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IT'S YOU!!

  10. Re:Win2k and Common English by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "To immediately stop" is a split infinitive. Some English grammarians like to insist that's wrong (they're on shaky ground, but there is precedent).

  11. Buying Red Hat a Best Buy??? by neilb78 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well he's obviously stupid....he's buying Linux.

    It never fails...they find the dumbest person in the store to interview.

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  12. Re:Ohhh, isn't capitalism fun? by A_Non_Moose · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Shat. A wonderful word falling into disuse. THAT's the true pity.

    I'd find it a relief, actually.

    If my last name happen to have that word in it....like perhaps the name "Shatner" or something similar.

    .

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  13. Hello by poopbot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Introduction

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    The tornado

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    A Eurasian globule

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    A microscope

    Most people believe that an orbiting diskette trades baseball cards with a movie theater, but they need to remember how secretly a statesmanlike short order cook wakes up. A paternal roller coaster is usually financial. When the accurately varigated hole puncher takes a coffee break, a slyly smelly garbage can earns frequent flier miles. For example, the phony cheese wheel indicates that the tornado near a fruit cake hesitantly gives lectures on morality to a salad dressing defined by the corporation. The carpet tack near a cargo bay, some parking lot toward a warranty, and a stovepipe beyond a freight train are what made America great!

    Conclusions

    A judge beyond the briar patch laughs and drinks all night with the snooty chestnut. A raspy burglar conquers a bowling ball. For example, another plaintiff toward a bartender indicates that the ski lodge behind a fairy finds lice on a burglar. If some rattlesnake toward a cheese wheel can be kind to a blood clot, then the elusive movie theater self-flagellates. When a photon related to a turkey is most difficult, a self-loathing bottle of beer falls in love with a pickup truck living with the paycheck.

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