The most Orwellian word in software

Ted Neward gets it right on his comments about the end of VB support from Microsoft

Nobody's really sure what "support" for a language or IDE really means anymore. For that matter, what difference does it make? When was the last time you called (insert your language vendor here) and got somebody who could really help you solve your problems, anyway?

One group that knows exactly what "support" means are internal corporate IT infrastructure groups, who use the word support as a synonym for permitted.