Author: JT Smith
From TheRegister: “Microsoft claiming Novell products have an expiration date will have prompted
gales of laughter in IT departments throughout the world. Redmond itself is home of
the expiration date, habitually unleashes a ‘new’ operating system on us every
year, and deploys a battery of weapons — retirement of MCP (Microsoft Certified
Professional) qualifications, price juggling, withholding of handy widgets, menacing
new licensing regimes — in order to achieve de facto expiration of the old ones.”
gales of laughter in IT departments throughout the world. Redmond itself is home of
the expiration date, habitually unleashes a ‘new’ operating system on us every
year, and deploys a battery of weapons — retirement of MCP (Microsoft Certified
Professional) qualifications, price juggling, withholding of handy widgets, menacing
new licensing regimes — in order to achieve de facto expiration of the old ones.”
