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Re:Google Domains shutting down, assets sold to Squarespace by Dalewyn on Thursday June 15, 2023 @10:18PM (#36350199)
Microsoft has also set more products in solid granite than Google.
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Re:Google Domains shutting down, assets sold to Squarespace by alex_young on Thursday June 15, 2023 @10:32PM (#36350313)
Good old Windows Cement. https://external-preview.redd.it/1WN9Vrz1gjERiGjyfJ8kUZEANRB...
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Re:Google Domains shutting down, assets sold to Squarespace by Dalewyn on Thursday June 15, 2023 @10:41PM (#36350390)
Windows today is unironically cement solid.

Windows XP incorporated more user-centric elements from 9x, which culminated with ME, into NT.

Windows 8 incorporated more mobile-centric elements from CE into NT.

Windows is still rock solid at running programs from almost 30 years ago.

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Re:Google Domains shutting down, assets sold to Squarespace by xtracto on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:17AM (#36358034)
Shit, there are computers doing productive work and going strong on MSDOS 6.22 here in Mexico. Released in 1994, that makes it 30 year old software working without issues.

Google software can only DREAM of doing that. Microsoft was doing software while Google people were still even not planned to be born.

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Re:Google Domains shutting down, assets sold to Squarespace by Dalewyn on Saturday June 17, 2023 @01:15AM (#36367520)
Fun trivia of the day: MS-DOS 1 through 7.0 only reached EOL in 2001, and MS-DOS 7.1 and 8 which were shipped with Windows 9x only reached EOL in 2006.

If we consider the start year to be 1981, the year MS-DOS 1 came out, that is twenty years of official, commercial support, if we count 7.1 and 8 that's twenty five years.

If you need software you can count on to still be there a few decades down the line, if not more de facto, count on Microsoft to deliver.

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