[ Thanks to Jack
Townley for this link. ]
“When Microsoft Corp. announced recently that it would extend
support for Windows 98 until mid-2006, the company said it was
doing so because many users in developing countries were not
prepared economically to upgrade to Windows XP.“Cynics did not buy the rationale, not for a millisecond.
“Microsoft decided to support Windows 98 users for two more
years because it did not want to risk losing financially strapped
Turkhistanis and others to Linux, the snickerers said…”