Microshaft strikes again...cannot upgrade from 95 to XP..what a load

[bozack]

Now I personally am not running 95 so in regards to myself I really don't care.....

But I do think that is a big bunch of BS and sucks hard if you cannot upgrade from 95 to XP...I mean all those upgrade discs usually do is check the old disc to see if it is authentic....other than that they are full verisions (least was in my case with 98se)


Sorry just my rant for the day.....

Not getting Xp until I have to (which is hopefully never) but I am allready starting to see Ms shift away from supporting my aging OS (98se)....


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[Athlon4all]

It is frusterating. there are many still using 95.

 

[dawks]

They dropped support for Windows 95 almost two years ago, when Millenium came out. Its nothing but history now. Live with it.

 

[bacillus]

who wants XP anyway!

 

[Scootin159]

It might have something to do with the fact that Windows 95 is now considered freeware and can be downloaded from Microsoft's FTP site.

 

[Sugadaddy]

who's still running win 95 anyways?

 

[bozack]

Daz if you bothered to read you would see that I wasn't referring to "support" for 95 at all, rather that you have a Microshaft product, namely win 95, and because it is a little older you are unable to purchase the upgrade version for XP....just MS trying to squeeze a few more pennies from peoples wallets, one more reson to go linux (which I am now seriously considering).

Heck if the Shaft was a decent company they would let people running Win 3.1 be eligable for upgrade...but then again we are talking about microsoft.......

 

[bozack]

Scootin are you serious? .....never thought the empire would let anything short of drivers out for free.

if that is the case then it is understandable.

 

[Sugadaddy]

<< Scootin are you serious? .....never thought the empire would let anything short of drivers out for free.

if that is the case then it is understandable. >>




So, when are you switching to Linux?

 

[dawks]

Read what I said, and think about it.

Microsoft dropped support for windows 95. Its nothing to them now. They dont care. Call them, ask for support with Win95, and they'll say "Win95, whats that?"

Its nothing to them, old news, garbage, gone, NOTHING.

Hence they arent providing SUPPORT for upgrading from it.

 

[Beowulf]

Microsoft said they did it because any computer running windows 95 at this time does not have te hardware needed to run XP.Thats what I heard but they don't support 95 either so take it as you will.

 

[bozack]

Scootin.....

Checked the FTP and what is up doesnt seem like a whole win95 load but instead just a few add ons for it and what not....however there could be something that I am missing.....

Sugadaddy....if the Shaft does end up "going the distance" with this anti piracy pyramid scheme they have planned it will be sooner than I hoped for...there is no way that I would want to deal with calling MS every time I 6 times I plugged in my digital camera, and I am not buying a site liscence for the three PCs in my house.....

I will run 98 until they kill support but it allready seems like it is lingering

 

[Gunbuster]

A box running 95 is most likely a Psomething ~75MHz and has no place/hope for running XP

 

[bozack]

Daz all they have to do is recognise it as a valid product......acknowldge that it was made by MS and allow people to get the discounted version like most normal companies do (ex. Norton and McAfee).....

it is really sad that since they no longer support it they will no longer allow people to get the cheaper version....

and in regards to the machines running 95...where I work we still run 95 transitioning to win2k...however all of those machines are at least p2 400s most are p3 733s...I would think there are people who upgrade thier systems but not their OS...heck I am still on 98se, with the logic here I should be on ME or 2k.

 

[VBboy]

1. Microsoft officially stopped selling and supporting Windows 95 a while ago.
2. Show me one person still on '95, and I will laugh at him until he cries
3. Upgrading from Os1 to Os2 is unreliable by default. Unless you want DLL conflicts and wierd registry entries, just erase the OS (don't format - that's a big mistake), and install.

 

[T2T III]

There has to be a limit to what Microsoft can support. That's why the Office releases only support only a couple of versions back. If this was not the case, Microsoft's software would be even more bloated than it is now.

With that being said, I don't think upgrading Microsoft's products is essentially the best move. Clean installs are much better. I have experienced too many issues after upgrading their products (components that don't work properly and sluggish performance to name a few).

 

[NFS4]

DAMNIT MICROSOFT!!!! WINDOWS XP WON'T UPGRADE MY MACHINE RUNNING WINDOWS 3.11 FOR WORKGROUPS. YOU GUYS CAN KISS MY ASS!!!! YOU SUCK!!


Ohh, puhlease, go cry on someone else's shoulder. You won't get any sympathy here. They dropped support for Windows 95 along time ago, and computers running Windows 95 don't have the horsepower to run Windows XP. And if you're running Windows 95 on a computer that CAN run Windows XP, then you need to be SHOT!

Go run to Linux, Microsoft doesn't care. They have the rest of us sheep

 

[Pikachu]

<crying> Oh fvck you VBboy, I'm stuck running Windows 3.11 at work (with a whopping 1.2MB space left on the HDD)! And that's only installed on there so I can run AutoCAD Lite Ver. 12! </crying>


Besides, I've seen quite a few companies that have tiered upgrade prices with set cutoff points.

 

[Deceiver]

I think the point is, that you have to have a more recent full version of Windows. Basically they don't want everyone to keep upgrading, and they want people to start buying full versions every now and then instead of upgrade to upgrade to upgrade. I think it's dumb they don't consider Win95 an upgrade because since maybe you are one of the few that haven't bought a computer in a few years or even got the Win98 upgrade. So you might consider upgrading your hardware along with your OS for the first time in several years, but since you can't upgrade the OS it makes it a lot more expensive.

I would seriously consider linux if it ran more programs/games.