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Old 05-14-2004, 04:35 PM
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I just read story on this on cnet.com.
http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-5209677.html?
tag=st.rc.targ_mb I for one am tired of getting burned
when companies dump product lines, leaving users with
lame-duck products that will become quickly obsolete.
Intel was/is famous for this. After running their network
admin packages and investing in their faxservers boom
they dump it. I no longer purchase Intel products if I
have an alternative as I will not purchase MS hardware
products in the future either personally or
professionally when an alternative is available . While a
company has every right to change direction it is the
users that get left holding the bag for their poor
business decisions. If a company doesn't have the drive
to succeed in a market they should play to begin with.
Just my humble opinion.


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Old 05-15-2004, 04:15 AM
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According to the article, MS will support the products
for the warranty period. Two years from now who knows
what we'll be running. I am only sorry that MS won't be
leading the pack. I think quite a bit of their products
and am especially happy with my wi-fi upgrade. Moved from
Linksys which was a pain to run.
>-----Original Message-----
>I just read story on this on cnet.com.
>http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-5209677.html?
>tag=st.rc.targ_mb I for one am tired of getting burned
>when companies dump product lines, leaving users with
>lame-duck products that will become quickly obsolete.
>Intel was/is famous for this. After running their

network
>admin packages and investing in their faxservers boom
>they dump it. I no longer purchase Intel products if I
>have an alternative as I will not purchase MS hardware
>products in the future either personally or
>professionally when an alternative is available . While

a
>company has every right to change direction it is the
>users that get left holding the bag for their poor
>business decisions. If a company doesn't have the drive
>to succeed in a market they should play to begin with.
>Just my humble opinion.
>.
>

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Old 05-20-2004, 01:18 AM
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I also moved away from Linksys to MS. Too many problems
with Linksys equipment. Lockup's, droped connections,
zero and I mean zero tech support. I've never buy a
Cisco/Linksys product again. My MS 700 runs with no
problems as a access point. Too damn bad its a legacy
product now.

>-----Original Message-----


>am especially happy with my wi-fi upgrade. Moved from
>Linksys which was a pain to run.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I just read story on this on cnet.com.
>>http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-5209677.html?
>>tag=st.rc.targ_mb I for one am tired of getting burned
>>when companies dump product lines, leaving users with
>>lame-duck products that will become quickly obsolete.


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Old 05-20-2004, 01:25 AM
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This mean Microsoft will do bug fixes for the next two
years, it does not mean Microsoft will add new features
to the firmware. Its a dead end product that went off the
cliff.

>-----Original Message-----
>According to the article, MS will support the products
>for the warranty period.

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