Re:Well done (Score 1)

"Well done to Microsoft, they're showing greater care to their clients" If you believe this, then take a couple steps back from the keyboard, take a couple of deep breaths and think. MS and most companies for that matter don't do things to be nice, they do it for their bottom line. With the large installed base of 98 would MS say this is your drop dead date and you will either upgrade, or risk security breaches. Customers would be outraged. While not changing the EOL for 98 would certainly have forced some customers to upgrade, it would still have left a bad taste in their collective mouths, and then others would have just hung onto 98 and if and when they ever did retire that OS, they may not have gone to another MS product. Why have so many users (home and corporate) failed to upgrade from 98 to NT/2000/XP? Either because 98 does everything that they need it to do, or while there are things in current OS offerings that they would like, they have not seen enough MUST have features to warrant an upgrade of their OS and more than likely their hardware as well. Let's face it if a system is still running 98 it's probably not that new of a system, and while according to the minimum system requirements it may very well run 2k/XP, it isn't going to do it very well. Bottom line is, MS decided to extend the EOL because of thier bottom line.