Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Legacy Microsoft Windows

Legacy Microsoft Windows

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The word "legacy" has been used to describe every version of Windows at some time or another. Some people consider anything below Win95 to be the legacy versions. Other people consider anything not based on WindowsNT legacy. Some consider anything that is not currently being promoted by Microsoft as legacy versions. I've even seen people discussing Longhorn, referring to anything that uses the "old" Win32 API as legacy versions. AlistairMcMillan 23:54, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

• Delete. Does not need a definition because: a) the expression is not in wide use, b) is self-explanatory, simply combining "legacy" in normal computer-field usage with Microsoft Windows, c) does not have some clear, well-defined, accepted meaning that is different from the self-explanatory meaning. The article itself gropes with this, trying to draw some dividing line at the point when Windows became a "full-blown OS"—a term which itself has no precise meaning—and acknowledges that even if one knew what a "full-blown OS" was, there would still be uncertainty about which versions of Windows meet that definition. It is simply not the case that versions of Windows fall into two neat categories that can be called "legacy" and (I suppose the antonym is) "modern." "Legacy" means "any older version of Windows that happens to lack features that are relevant to the discussion at hand." In other words, its meaning must be inferred from context and can't be defined. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:29, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Delete, Don't see this becoming a useful encyclopaedic article. --fvw* 00:36, 2004 Nov 26 (UTC)
• Delete this, but how's about a category for non-current versions of Windows? (If there's one already, please refrain from biting the poster's head off!) --Billfred 00:44, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Good idea, but this article by itself provides little that is worthy of wikipedia. Delete it - rernst 00:50, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
• Delete: As has been said already, inaccurate and not really needed. A category system might be possible, but that probably exists or can be easily made. Geogre 03:01, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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