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cm0002 ( cm0002@europe.pub )  to Linux@programming.dev · 2 months ago

China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux

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China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux

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cm0002 ( cm0002@europe.pub )  to Linux@programming.dev · 2 months ago
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The specialized Chinese version of Windows was already scheduled for retirement in February 2027, but now its end-of-life date has been moved up.
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    Apparently it was 50 days:

    https://pipiscrew.github.io/posts/why-window/

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      Wonderful, thanks for looking that up.

      I remember learning about that bug years after the OS came out, and not being too surprised that it was never fixed.

      Windows 95 crashed so often that you’d basically have to specifically do nothing with the machine to ever get that crash. And even then, you’d just assume that it was crashing like Windows 95 always did anyway.

      So you’d be unlikely to see or recognize that bug unless you were specifically testing for uptime issues.

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