Charlotte Foust
charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Tue Aug 20 12:14:55 CDT 2013
The firms I've worked with are migrating to Win 7 and either 2007 or 2010. Win 8 hasn't had all the kinks worked out and it's too different from what users are accustomed to to tempt any company that doesn't fancy being on the bleeding edge of technology. The release of Win 8.1 may change that, but that's what I've seen so far. MS dropping support for XP means that any future exploits discovered against the operating system won't be patched, leaving it up to the company to beef up their systems security and burn a lot of incense. Access 2007 runs just fine on Win 7, and it should run on Win 8. I jumped to Win 8 on a new machine, so I didn't install the older versions, but maybe someone else has loaded it on a VM. Charlotte On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Brad Marks <BradM at blackforestltd.com>wrote: > All, > > I work part time for a small manufacturing firm (about 50 employees) > with a very limited IT budget. > > Currently there are about 20 older PCs running Windows XP (SP3). There > are two purchased application systems and a number of Access 2007 > applications. > > It is my understanding that Microsoft is dropping all support (including > security updates) for XP in April of 2014. > > My background is primarily in application development and database > administration. In the past, I have relied on fellow employees for > "Operating System issues". > > I have some dumb questions. > > How serious is the issue of Microsoft dropping all support for XP next > April? > > What are most firms migrating to? Win-7? Win-8? > > I would guess that either Win-7 or Win-8 will need more horsepower than > XP and neither will run very well on older PCs. True? > > Will Access 2007 applications run Okay with either Win-7 or Win-8? > > Thanks, > Brad > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >