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Microsoft Extends Product Lifecycle

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. in other news ... by xlyz · · Score: 1, Troll


    Microsoft announced that the release of their new OS codenamed Longhorn has been further delayed

  2. Re:It's about time by tarunthegreat2 · · Score: 1, Troll

    MS seems to be on the back-foot for now.

    Sorry have to take that one apart. MS has been on back-foot/reactive since its inception. It's never been a "pioneer" in any of its fields...well maybe Office...I said MAYBE! All Microsoft does is wait for somebody to do the hard work of finding the Next Big Thing, then moves in for the kill - first offer to buy out, and if they can't, they develop their own version, and toss it in with the OS. Works everytime, and has been for about 20 years now... So yea, they probably fear Linux (and have for a long long time now), but that's basically what drives them. They used to fear Netscape....

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  3. Hey be fair! by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 0, Troll

    Give them a break.... Linux was written by only one person (and a few helpers) in one year (ie one year per programmer). Microsoft has a few hundred programmers so to be fair you should also give them the same time (ie. one year per programmer) -- a few hundred years -- before you start bad mouthing them.

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