kony wrote:

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:37:00 -0700, measekite <inkystinky@oem.com> wrote:



Barry Watzman wrote:



Did anyone notice that on July 1st, HP removed ALL drivers for any OS' before Windows 2000? You can no longer get drivers for any NT or 9x systems, even ones which were posted online as of 6/30. You also cannot any longer order CDs with these drivers. Either you have the driver already (on CD or saved download), or you know someone else who has it, or you are screwed. This was applicable to ALL HP products, across the board, not just printers.



While that is unfortunate, nobody should be using those archaic operating systems anyway. If your computer cannot at least support W2K then is it a piece of trash and ready to be sent overseas.



Don't be an idiot. Not everyone, not every system needs to encode HD video or game at 200 FPS. For example there are lots of businesses out there running legacy software because it would cost many thousands of dollars to switch (merely on your say-so, since they'd have already switched if present systems/OS weren't getting the job done). The only real factor might be the age of the hardware as it related to reliability, so people will buy newer systems and chuck WinXP or Vista to run the same thing they were already.


Properly run businesses do not run W98.  It is not and never really was stable.  And they certainly do not run games.  And if they need to run legacy software that old they are at a competitive disadvantge.