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Shaddy Baddah wrote:
> >longer than MS does? It would make things easier if we
> >dropped support for W2K hosts.
> >  
> Surely not?!? I've heard of people being off hand about supporting
> Win95/98 (and I would agree with that) et al..., but surely W2K support
> should be sacrosanct ?!?

I would hope so, as I get the impression W2K is the last Windows
version which can be run reliably in a VM, due to the "legitimacy"
checking done by XP and later. :-)

-- Jamie