Why WD only is availible in XP SP2?

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System Requirements:
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4; Windows Server
2003 Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2

....and No
 
The support life for XP SP1 ends 10 October, 2006. I suspect that, coupled
with some estimate of when this product will be released, dictates the
support decision.
 
Bill Sanderson MVP said:
The support life for XP SP1 ends 10 October, 2006. I suspect that, coupled
with some estimate of when this product will be released, dictates the
support decision.

No offense, but doesn't that seen a little, um, DUMB! I mean, Windows 98
support is just ending this year, 8 years later! Why stop supporting
something that is still "wet behind the ears," so to speak? Sounds like a
conspiracy to me...
 
There's a ton of stuff to read about the lifecycle support policy--but it's
been out there to read for a good long time--this shouldn't be a surprise.

Customers using SP1 have the choice of moving to SP2, without incurring any
additional cost for the software--and SP3 after that.

Every OS/SP/language combination out there incurs support costs for
Microsoft--an IE patch, for example, has to be tested against over 400
different such combinations.

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FeMaster said:
No offense, but doesn't that seen a little, um, DUMB! I mean, Windows 98
support is just ending this year, 8 years later!

Win98 and security are in contraddiction. Win98 does not support NTFS and so
in Win98 there are not NTFS permissions = no security.
 
Franz said:
Win98 and security are in contraddiction. Win98 does not support NTFS and so
in Win98 there are not NTFS permissions = no security.

Nobody mentioned anything about security...
 
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