Subj : Re: WINDOWS XP To : DAVID R. NORTON From : JAY EMRIE Date : Fri Jul 20 2001 02:51 am DRN> wrote in message news:995433288.86.0@fastq.com... DRN>> I do not understand. Why? Just do not "upgrade???" to XP. DRN>Because sooner or later Win2k will cease to function as new hardware and new DRN>software become available. There was a time when Windows wouldn't support DRN>SUB, in order to use later technology I had to upgrade to a version that DRN>would. We both know that 64 bit machines are very close and sooner or later DRN>we'll have to upgrade to use them. The list goes on and on, Win.x has DRN>become almost unusable with later software, it'll happen to whatever you or DRN>I are running, sooner or later. I suppose you are correct. However, I will hang on to 98SE/2000 (whichever I end up using) as long as possible. Considering Win.x arrived about the mid 80s, that gives a usable? life span of about 15 years. MAYBE 2000 will have a similar life span and by then I probably wont care - I'll be in my 90s IF I live that long. :-( Jay --- þ OLXWin 1.00b þ What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over * Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:18/140) .