[dba-Tech] reports of winxp death have been somewhat exaggerated

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Petter:

I tend to agree...regardless of comments to the contrary, XP was a pretty stable product and as long as it is not expected to do web stuff, it is very safe. If MS ever gave an upgrade path to the XP users we would then see millions of upgrade requests...but that is never going to happen so I would bet there will be XP machines running long after I am gone. ;-)

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "peter brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 6:18:02 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] reports of winxp death have been somewhat exaggerated

Hi Jim,

Doesn't amaze me, does reassure me that this number of users resisted the corporare sales spam.

PB


---- Original Message ----
From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>
Reply-To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Date: 06/01/15 8:15 PM
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
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Sub: Re: [dba-Tech] reports of winxp death have been somewhat exaggerated
Hi Peter:

There is hardly a business that isn't using XP. A bunch of us geeks were conversing about the state of the industry and all of us know dozens of businesses where XP sits behind the scenes, in all automation and POS systems...I really find it amazing. People that are working on desktops are using the newest Windows variations but in any type of appliance software there appears to be that XP/2000/NT hiding behind the scenes. I really wonder how many of these packages are out there running as there is no way to document them as they rarely appear on the web and are therefore being substantially under reported..

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Brawley" <peter.brawley at earthlink.net>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 2:37:23 PM
Subject: [dba-Tech] reports of winxp death have been somewhat exaggerated

M$oft did their best to persuade us stubborn winxp users that refusal to 
upgrade will be punished soon by disaster.

When I saw winxp prof running on a Delta Airlines workstation in SFO 
yesterday, I felt a wee bit less afraid.

PB
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