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Microsoft Extends Product Lifecycle

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 30, 2004 @08:20PM from the good-if-you-use-their-stuff dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has decided to extend product support on business and developer products effective June 1, 2004. Mainstream support remains unchanged at 5 years, extended support is greatly extended from 2 to 5 years and Online self-help support is extended from 8 to 10 years. I have to say kudos to Microsoft on this one."

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AAGGLL Re:Reasonable minimums for Win2K/XP. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-31 01:57 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I run windows XP (with the eye candy turned off) on a K6-III 450. with 384 megs of ram - and it runs great.
I run Windows 2000 on a P-133 laptop with 80 megs of ram, and a (slow) 4500rpm HD. and it runs just as fast as Windows 98: It actually boots faster now. System response is not perfect - but it is fast enough not to be frustrating. A lot better than ANY linux window manager I got working on this old laptop.