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This is what I love about Microsoft. While Google is eager to go ahead and cancel Google Cloud Print and say "find an alternative before next month", Microsoft

by Foe 5y ago

This is what I love about Microsoft. While Google is eager to go ahead and cancel Google Cloud Print and say "find an alternative before next month", Microsoft would be the company to announce it'll be cancelled in 2023, extended support lasts until 2029, and you can buy Extended Warranty 365+ for Business that lasts until 2067.

hangonhn 5y ago
I think that's what happens when your root is in enterprise software or at least some of your heritage is in enterprise. I have no great love for MSFT but I agree with you about their willingness to support things well past their expected expiration. IIRC they even went so far as to detect programs that used some "bugs" in earlier versions of Windows and emulated those same buggy behaviors just for those programs.
- thatfunkymunki 5y ago
  https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_wind... comes to mind, which explains (at least partially) why Windows 10 came directly after Windows 8.1
  - golergka 5y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281932 Microsoft has a long reputation of fixing bugs caused by other people's software and their incorrect assumptions about Windows.
- flatiron 5y ago
  Too lazy to look but I believe someone in a vm went from windows 1.0 to windows 7 (with all upgrades in between) and some of their personalization options from 1.0 (or maybe 3.11) were still present in 7. Insane!
  - datameta 5y ago
    https://youtu.be/l60HHWWo9z4 https://youtu.be/l60HHWWo9z4 There are also timelapses for those not into having a multi-hour windows nostalgia marathon.
    - TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
      I clicked your link thinking it was the time lapse version, but it is over 10 hours.
      - datameta 5y ago
        Hah, I can see how my wording could be interpreted that way. The timelapses I saw had music or the stereotypical content creator greeting - couldn't post that here in good conscience.
  - stordoff 5y ago
    Windows 1 to Windows 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14 (set colour schemes disappear at XP, but programs continue to work) Follow up - Windows 1 to Windows 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH1BKPSGcxQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH1BKPSGcxQ
jefftk 5y ago
You're definitely right that Microsoft is better about this, but it wasn't "find an alternative before next month". Cloud Print's shutdown was announced with a bit over a year of notice, in November 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20191121200236/https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9633006 https://web.archive.org/web/20191121200236/https://support.g...

by Foe 5y ago

hangonhn 5y ago

I think that's what happens when your root is in enterprise software or at least some of your heritage is in enterprise. I have no great love for MSFT but I agree with you about their willingness to support things well past their expected expiration. IIRC they even went so far as to detect programs that used some "bugs" in earlier versions of Windows and emulated those same buggy behaviors just for those programs.

thatfunkymunki 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windows_version_will_be_called_windows_10/ckwq83x/ https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_wind... comes to mind, which explains (at least partially) why Windows 10 came directly after Windows 8.1
- golergka 5y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281932 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281932 Microsoft has a long reputation of fixing bugs caused by other people's software and their incorrect assumptions about Windows.
flatiron 5y ago
Too lazy to look but I believe someone in a vm went from windows 1.0 to windows 7 (with all upgrades in between) and some of their personalization options from 1.0 (or maybe 3.11) were still present in 7. Insane!
- datameta 5y ago
  https://youtu.be/l60HHWWo9z4 https://youtu.be/l60HHWWo9z4 There are also timelapses for those not into having a multi-hour windows nostalgia marathon.
  - TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
    I clicked your link thinking it was the time lapse version, but it is over 10 hours.
    - datameta 5y ago
      Hah, I can see how my wording could be interpreted that way. The timelapses I saw had music or the stereotypical content creator greeting - couldn't post that here in good conscience.
- stordoff 5y ago
  Windows 1 to Windows 7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14 (set colour schemes disappear at XP, but programs continue to work) Follow up - Windows 1 to Windows 10: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH1BKPSGcxQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH1BKPSGcxQ

jefftk 5y ago

You're definitely right that Microsoft is better about this, but it wasn't "find an alternative before next month". Cloud Print's shutdown was announced with a bit over a year of notice, in November 2019: https://web.archive.org/web/20191121200236/https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/9633006 https://web.archive.org/web/20191121200236/https://support.g...