[AccessD] Ramblings of a nutcase

I am watching with interest the case of the UKs health care system which cannot migrate off of XP 
due to incompatibility of custom apps with Windows 7 (or 8 ).  They are paying BIG BUCKS to 
Microsoft to keep on supporting them. Something like $100 / machine for the first year and $200 / 
year for the second year.

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 2/25/2014 1:42 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi John:
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> Sorry for your terrible experience.
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> I have not taken the Windows 8 challenge as I hate to lose and look totally incompetent.
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> A friend who is happens to be one of the senior designer for the (national) Royal Bank said that the tech staff swore that they would never install Windows 8...can you imagine what 100K of tellers and mutual fund managers would do if presented with Windows 8. The bank also have many millions of dollars invested in applications, that have been developed over 40 plus years and there is no clear upgrade path to the new Windows. This all makes the new OS a "no go".
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> It should be noted that all the senior staff from the Windows 8 project, have left. Whether they were fired or just left or are leaving for greener pastures, is not known but this sort of major turn-over doesn't tend to give any outside observer confidence in the whole Windows 8 environment.
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> You have had to reverse back to Windows 7 (maybe waiting for the new Windows 9 savior), while many big companies are simply refusing to move and I have slide sideways into Linux and now doubt whether I will ever come back.
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> Aside: I have found that there is nothing I can do in Windows that I can not just as easily do in Linux...MS Access 2003 runs just fine but I have not tried other favours of Access, yet.
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> Jim
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