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Farewell To the Floppy Disk
s31523 writes "Those of us who have been in the IT arena for a while remember installing our favorite OS, network client, power application, etc. by feeding the computer what seemed an endless supply of 5.25" soft floppy disks. We rejoiced when the hard 3.5" floppies came out, cutting our install media by 1/3. We practically did backflips when the data CD-ROM arrived and we declared: we will never need any other disk than this! It is with sadness that I report the beginning of the end for the floppy: computer giant PC World has announced it will no longer carry the floppy disk once current supplies run out."
Instead of just stating triviality, you could actually back up your claim with a link or two explaining how. Not that I give a crap, since I just use Linux, but obviously there are plenty of people oblivious to this triviality.
About 90% of the world's computers runs Windows. Still a majority of small to mid size servers runs Windows. If you don't like the comments people make regarding to Windows still needs floppy and discuss this in an open forum objectively, please move along to the next link. We don't need someone telling us to switch to Linux (we already know how great they are). We are discussing in a condition where running Windows is a REQUIREMENT at present situation. We will address the convertion to Linux when we can get to it.