Will Ditching Support For Win98 Boost Computer Sales?
from the pushing-everyone-along... dept
For the past few years, the tech industry keeps trying to come up with new reasons why people should upgrade their computers - while most people have realized that what they have is "good enough". Most people don't think they need to upgrade nearly as often, and the introduction of new Microsoft operating systems (while helping), didn't give the computer industry quite the jolt they hoped for. Now, however, as Microsoft is preparing to end their support of Windows 98, analysts are wondering if it could help boost the computer industry by forcing everyone to upgrade their old machines. Since businesses don't want to be without tech support, they're likely to upgrade, and consumers who run into problems and can't get help might see their only option as an upgrade, as well.
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"Since businesses don't want to be without tech support, they're likely to upgrade"
Now I think tech support is what they pay me a salary for, tech support.
Now the home user will upgrade if the computer is no longer meeting their needs (gamers) but if they are only doing the big 3 (Email, Web & Word Processing) then unless they are pressured to buy a new one they wont need to.
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It's not Microsoft's support that matters...
The company that I work for develops software for a wide market of people and we're still supporting Windows 95 because a lot of our customers are still using it. We would love to drop older OSs that are now 'obsolete' but we would lose a sizable portion of our customers, so we can't.
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