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Old July 9th 20, 11:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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Just found this beauty: Windows 1.0 ran from 1985 until 2001!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

"Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985"

"On December 31, 2001, Windows 1.0 was declared obsolete and Microsoft stopped providing support and updates for the system."
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Old July 10th 20, 12:00 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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On 7/9/20 3:51 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Just found this beauty: Windows 1.0 ran from 1985 until 2001!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

"Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985"

"On December 31, 2001, Windows 1.0 was declared obsolete and Microsoft
stopped providing support and updates for the system."


I did not use Windows 1, but I did use an Apple IIe for years. The Apple
II series was sold for 17 years, which is rather amazing. Even the IIe
version, with just minor changes, sold for 11 years. Then they had an
Apple IIe on a card made for Macs (I had one of those in a lab I ran).

The Apple IIgs was also backward compatible with it -- I used to own one
of the Woz signed ones. I loaned it out and it was stolen -- which
really irked me. Oh well.

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Old July 10th 20, 01:30 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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On Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:51:43 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

Just found this beauty: Windows 1.0 ran from 1985 until 2001!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

"Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985"

"On December 31, 2001, Windows 1.0 was declared obsolete and Microsoft stopped providing support and updates for the system."


Those who used it regarded Windows 1.0 as obsolete almost from the
beginning.
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Old July 10th 20, 11:14 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:30:22 +0100, Eric Stevens wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:51:43 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

Just found this beauty: Windows 1.0 ran from 1985 until 2001!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

"Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985"

"On December 31, 2001, Windows 1.0 was declared obsolete and Microsoft stopped providing support and updates for the system."


Those who used it regarded Windows 1.0 as obsolete almost from the
beginning.


I never even heard of it and wondered why Windows 2 was the first one. When I looked up that query, I found there was a windows 1.

But it's very odd they supported it until 2001, by which times we'd had Windows 2, 3, 95, 98, NT 4 (and 1, 2, 3?) 2000.

Another oddity, what was Windows ME for? Once 2000 was out, we had an NT based OS which also played games. ME was pointless.
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Old July 10th 20, 11:15 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
Commander Kinsey
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:00:55 +0100, Snit wrote:

On 7/9/20 3:51 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Just found this beauty: Windows 1.0 ran from 1985 until 2001!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

"Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985"

"On December 31, 2001, Windows 1.0 was declared obsolete and Microsoft
stopped providing support and updates for the system."


I did not use Windows 1, but I did use an Apple IIe for years. The Apple
II series was sold for 17 years, which is rather amazing. Even the IIe
version, with just minor changes, sold for 11 years. Then they had an
Apple IIe on a card made for Macs (I had one of those in a lab I ran).

The Apple IIgs was also backward compatible with it -- I used to own one
of the Woz signed ones. I loaned it out and it was stolen -- which
really irked me. Oh well.


It's a pity Apple don't do compatibility any more. Every time a new connector comes out, they ditch the old one. I remember having to throw away or donate printers etc when we changed to Macs with USB on them instead of serial ports. PCs however kept the serial and parallel ports, and some made now still have them!
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Old July 10th 20, 11:54 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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"Commander Kinsey" wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:30:22 +0100, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:51:43 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" wrote:

Just found this beauty: Windows 1.0 ran from 1985 until 2001!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

"Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985"

"On December 31, 2001, Windows 1.0 was declared obsolete and
Microsoft stopped providing support and updates for the system."


Those who used it regarded Windows 1.0 as obsolete almost from the
beginning.


I never even heard of it and wondered why Windows 2 was the first
one. When I looked up that query, I found there was a windows 1.

But it's very odd they supported it until 2001, by which times we'd
had Windows 2, 3, 95, 98, NT 4 (and 1, 2, 3?) 2000.


That 2001 date was also the time they stopped supporting MSDOS 6 as
well as Win 2 & 3 which depended on it or lower versions. Win95 & 98
ran on MSDOS 7+.

Not sure what they mean by "support" since there were no automactic
updates over the internet for MSDOS and Win3 & below.

Another oddity, what was Windows ME for? Once 2000 was out, we had
an NT based OS which also played games. ME was pointless.


I think the 9x (which includes ME) line was meant for home users,
whereas the NT line was for business. MS changed their minds when
they released XP.


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Old July 10th 20, 12:27 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.computer.workshop
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On 10 Jul 2020, Commander Kinsey wrote
(in article op.0njap7viwdg98l@glass):

On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:30:22 +0100, Eric
wrote:

On Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:51:43 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

Just found this beauty: Windows 1.0 ran from 1985 until 2001!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

"Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985"

"On December 31, 2001, Windows 1.0 was declared obsolete and Microsoft
stopped providing support and updates for the system."


Those who used it regarded Windows 1.0 as obsolete almost from the
beginning.


I never even heard of it and wondered why Windows 2 was the first one. When I
looked up that query, I found there was a windows 1.

But it's very odd they supported it until 2001, by which times we'd had
Windows 2, 3, 95, 98, NT 4 (and 1, 2, 3?) 2000.


there was never any NT 1 or 2. NT started with 3, actually 3.1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

Basically, it takes Microsoft at least three tries to get a good product out
the door. Win 1 stunk. Win 2 stunk worse. Win 3 was actually usable, but
required more work. Win 3.1 and then Win 3.1.1 followed. NT 3 was never
actually released; NT3.1 was... problematic. NT 3.5 and then NT 3.51 quickly
came out. NT 4 was... not so good. NT 5 fixed most of the problems. NT 5.1
(a.k.a XP) ruled the desktop for a very long time indeed. Note that Vista was
NT 6 and Win 7 was NT 6.1, Win 8 was NT 6.2, and Win 8.1 was NT 6.3...



Another oddity, what was Windows ME for?


Win ME was the last of the branch of MS OSes which started with Win 95.
Once 2000 was out, we had an NT
based OS which also played games.


NT was, officially, for business and for servers. Win 95 and derivatives were
for home use, including games. Some hardware vendors (Compaq) did things like
having two lines of hardware, one for home with 95 and later, one for
business with NT, and supplying drivers only for the particular line. A
Compaq Presario of the time and a Compaq DeskPro of the time had fairly
similar specs, but one was 95/98/98SE/ME and one was NT 3.x/4/5. More
importantly, the Deskpro cost $1000-2000 more than the Presario. If you put
NT on the Presario, none of the drivers for the on-board hardware would work;
Compaq really wanted you to buy a DeskPro if you wanted to run NT.
ME was pointless.


ME was the worst MS OS since Bob (you don’t want to know about Bob. You
really don’t. Bob was a total disaster, the gold standard of what never,
ever, to do in an OS. It’s still the worst thing Microsoft has ever
released. Yes, worse than Zune. Worse than Windows RT. Worse than Kin. The
only reason why the project manager in charge of Bob wasn’t fired was that
she was married to Bill.), and the worst until Win 8. It was basically 98SE
plus the interface from NT 5 plus tons of bugs, and was intended for home
use. NT 5.1, XP, killed off ME by having a home use version as well as a
business version.

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Old July 10th 20, 12:29 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.computer.workshop
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On 10 Jul 2020, Apd wrote
(in article ):

"Commander Kinsey" wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:30:22 +0100, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:51:43 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" wrote:

Just found this beauty: Windows 1.0 ran from 1985 until 2001!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

"Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985"

"On December 31, 2001, Windows 1.0 was declared obsolete and
Microsoft stopped providing support and updates for the system."

Those who used it regarded Windows 1.0 as obsolete almost from the
beginning.


I never even heard of it and wondered why Windows 2 was the first
one. When I looked up that query, I found there was a windows 1.

But it's very odd they supported it until 2001, by which times we'd
had Windows 2, 3, 95, 98, NT 4 (and 1, 2, 3?) 2000.


That 2001 date was also the time they stopped supporting MSDOS 6 as
well as Win 2 & 3 which depended on it or lower versions. Win95& 98
ran on MSDOS 7+.


95/98/98SE/ME were actual OSes. Win 1/2/3.x were applications running on DOS.

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Old July 10th 20, 01:00 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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On 10/07/2020 13.29, Wolffan wrote:
On 10 Jul 2020, Apd wrote
(in article ):

"Commander Kinsey" wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:30:22 +0100, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:51:43 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" wrote:

Just found this beauty: Windows 1.0 ran from 1985 until 2001!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

"Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985"

"On December 31, 2001, Windows 1.0 was declared obsolete and
Microsoft stopped providing support and updates for the system."

Those who used it regarded Windows 1.0 as obsolete almost from the
beginning.

I never even heard of it and wondered why Windows 2 was the first
one. When I looked up that query, I found there was a windows 1.

But it's very odd they supported it until 2001, by which times we'd
had Windows 2, 3, 95, 98, NT 4 (and 1, 2, 3?) 2000.


That 2001 date was also the time they stopped supporting MSDOS 6 as
well as Win 2 & 3 which depended on it or lower versions. Win95& 98
ran on MSDOS 7+.


95/98/98SE/ME were actual OSes. Win 1/2/3.x were applications running on DOS.


Not quite, not that simple. Windows 3 replaced several bios and msdos
interrupts with their own versions, and added new ones. Like 32 bit disk
access. You can consider them as extensions to the OS, but not applications.


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Old July 10th 20, 01:15 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.computer.workshop
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On 10 Jul 2020, Carlos E.R. wrote
(in article ):

On 10/07/2020 13.29, Wolffan wrote:
On 10 Jul 2020, Apd wrote
(in article ):

"Commander Kinsey" wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:30:22 +0100, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:51:43 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" wrote:

Just found this beauty: Windows 1.0 ran from 1985 until 2001!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

"Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985"

"On December 31, 2001, Windows 1.0 was declared obsolete and
Microsoft stopped providing support and updates for the system."

Those who used it regarded Windows 1.0 as obsolete almost from the
beginning.

I never even heard of it and wondered why Windows 2 was the first
one. When I looked up that query, I found there was a windows 1.

But it's very odd they supported it until 2001, by which times we'd
had Windows 2, 3, 95, 98, NT 4 (and 1, 2, 3?) 2000.

That 2001 date was also the time they stopped supporting MSDOS 6 as
well as Win 2 & 3 which depended on it or lower versions. Win95& 98
ran on MSDOS 7+.


95/98/98SE/ME were actual OSes. Win 1/2/3.x were applications running on
DOS.


Not quite, not that simple. Windows 3 replaced several bios and msdos
interrupts with their own versions, and added new ones. Like 32 bit disk
access. You can consider them as extensions to the OS, but not applications.


That’s fair. I called ‘em apps because you could fire ‘em up by typing
‘win’ at the. command line. Win 95 and following had a sort of terminal
app (‘cmd’) which could do command-line things, but users didn’t need
to type ‘win’ anymore.

It’s been a _long_ time since I last went anywhere near Win 1/2/3.x or
95/98/98SE/ME. Basically I’ve used NT or Mac or Linux on desktop/laptop
systems since those OSes were available, and various big iron OSes on
IBM/Harris/DEC/Prime/Burroughs main frame and mini systems. I can still
remember, barely, how to boot a Prime or a Harris. Totally forgot how start
up a PDP or a VAX, though I could probably figure it out if I was sitting at
the terminal.

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Old July 10th 20, 01:42 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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In article s.com,
Wolffan wrote:

Totally forgot how start
up a PDP or a VAX, though I could probably figure it out if I was sitting at
the terminal.


for the pdp, toggle in a boot loader on the front panel.
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Old July 10th 20, 02:16 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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"Wolffan" wrote:
On 10 Jul 2020, Apd wrote:
That 2001 date was also the time they stopped supporting MSDOS 6 as
well as Win 2 & 3 which depended on it or lower versions. Win95 & 98
ran on MSDOS 7+.


95/98/98SE/ME were actual OSes. Win 1/2/3.x were applications running
on DOS.


Win9x used MSDOS as a boot loader (NT has its own) and had other
connections to it. Some DOS-loaded drivers could be used under 9x.


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Old July 10th 20, 05:02 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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"Commander Kinsey" wrote:

Another oddity, what was Windows ME for? Once 2000 was out, we had an NT based OS which also played games. ME was pointless.



Windows 2000 was originally intended to be what XP ended up being - an
NT version for both business and home use. They didn't quite get
there, so they released only the business version, but, around the
time they were completing XP, a service pack for 2000 was released
that backported the key features of XP to 2000, and it became more
compatible with old games, etc.

As for Windows Me, the idea was to redesign the 9x line to be more
like 2000, for example it included the new TCP/IP in 2000 (and in 95,
98, 98 SE and NT 4, it had been abysmal, so that was one thing in Me's
favor). The problem was that for many if not most computers, Me was
far less stable than 98 SE. There were exceptions to that, but it was
released with a lot of flaws.

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Old July 10th 20, 06:44 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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On 10/07/2020 18.02, Joel wrote:
"Commander Kinsey" wrote:

Another oddity, what was Windows ME for? Once 2000 was out, we had an NT based OS which also played games. ME was pointless.



Windows 2000 was originally intended to be what XP ended up being - an
NT version for both business and home use. They didn't quite get
there, so they released only the business version, but, around the
time they were completing XP, a service pack for 2000 was released
that backported the key features of XP to 2000, and it became more
compatible with old games, etc.

As for Windows Me, the idea was to redesign the 9x line to be more
like 2000, for example it included the new TCP/IP in 2000 (and in 95,
98, 98 SE and NT 4, it had been abysmal, so that was one thing in Me's
favor). The problem was that for many if not most computers, Me was
far less stable than 98 SE. There were exceptions to that, but it was
released with a lot of flaws.


I bought a desktop computer at the time that came with Windows Me - I
did not find it specially faulty. Later I upgraded it to Linux and
double booted.


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Cheers, Carlos.
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Old July 10th 20, 06:55 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.computer.workshop
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"Carlos E.R." wrote:

As for Windows Me, the idea was to redesign the 9x line to be more
like 2000, for example it included the new TCP/IP in 2000 (and in 95,
98, 98 SE and NT 4, it had been abysmal, so that was one thing in Me's
favor). The problem was that for many if not most computers, Me was
far less stable than 98 SE. There were exceptions to that, but it was
released with a lot of flaws.


I bought a desktop computer at the time that came with Windows Me - I
did not find it specially faulty. Later I upgraded it to Linux and
double booted.



Yeah, a friend of mine bought a computer that came with WinMe, and for
him it was just fine. But others had serious problems with it. Kind
of strange, and yet we're seeing similar issues with Win10 today - an
update works for some people and royally screws up with others.

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