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If Microsoft released the source code to Windows 98 OSR2, which is effectively abandonware as far as I understand, it would be great. A lot of multimedia applic
by herokusaki 13y ago
If Microsoft released the source code to Windows 98 OSR2, which is effectively abandonware as far as I understand, it would be great. A lot of multimedia applications and old games would instantly become easier to preserve.
Is there still any value for Microsoft in Win9x?
- Touche 13y agoWhy not XP? The have no interest in supporting it. And millions of people still want to use it.
- jhh 13y agoBecause this would allow these millions of people to continue using this fork of XP rather than eventually buying a MS operating system.
- Touche 13y agoBut this is the attitude Microsoft needs to eliminate. The days of making money on operating systems is rapidly fading away. They already gave away Windows 8.1 as a free upgrade, so they're aware of it. An open source XP would get many hackers interested in Windows, something they desperately need.
- mjolk 13y agoCitation needed. They are definitely making money on closed-source operating systems and operating system tools: http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earnings/PressReleaseAndWebcast/FY12/Q2/default.aspx http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...
- hifier 13y agoUmm, I don't buy Apple computers for their backlit keyboards...
- tripzilch 13y ago> They already gave away Windows 8.1 as a free upgrade It wasn't free--it took a couple of hours of my time!