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Creaky Operating Systems Form IT Foundations

Posted by Zonk on from the *shudder* dept.

maotx writes "The Washington Post has an article on how aging operating systems are still widely used. The article states that "The research firm IDC estimates that of the roughly 514 million paid-for copies of Windows on desktops and laptops worldwide at the end of 2004, almost 21 percent were the aging Win 95, 98 and Millennium Edition releases." That equates to around 108 million copies being used."

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  1. 3.1 by sosegumu · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm a shameless garbage picker and recently I found an old box with 8 mb memory running Windows 3.1. Being curious and hoping to get an old hard drive to running a smoothwall box, I snagged it and took it home.

    Even though it was sitting in the rain, when I dried it off/out it booted right up and I played a little game of solitaire. But the really crazy thing is that it actually booted up much quicker than my Windows XP box with a AMD Athlon 2400+ & 1GB Memory.

    Go figure!

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    It's easier to wear the spandex than to do the crunches. --David Lee Roth
  2. Re:Security disaster waiting to happen... by Caspian · · Score: 0, Troll

    Call me when it get is compromised?

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    With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?