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To: steve harris who wrote (84677)3/17/2014 8:20:29 AM
From: FJB1 Recommendation

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Gottfried

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Apple stops providing updates to products from four years ago - Snow Leopard. Smartphones are orphaned after a couple years - you no longer get updates. Microsoft's support of the product 13 years after its launch is insane. They should have end of lifed it much sooner IMO...



To: steve harris who wrote (84677)3/17/2014 12:22:23 PM
From: Gottfried1 Recommendation

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FJB

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XP will still work. There just won't be updates
Can you imagine other manufacturers that render their products unusable on a certain expiration date?