Reply to post: Re: Enough of this.

Microsoft herds biz users to Windows 10 by denying support for Win 7 and 8 on new CPUs

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: Enough of this.

I can't see MS taking that kind of competition lying down.

Agree that they are likely not to take this lying down, however because they have gone big time on patents, they may actually have little real choice in the matter; because both utility and design patents are life limited: 20 years in the case of utility and 15 for design. So effectively most things in win95 are available for re-use unless they were explicitly copyrighted. And in a few more years the same will apply to XP...

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