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

[James Barash]

Our local commuter railroad has automated ticketing machines and I happened to see one reboot one day. It was running Windows NT. They do go out occasionally but most of the time they work reliably and most outages are caused by the central computer system, not the individual machines. Pretty impressive considering they are outside and exposed to weather and humans.

James

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2015 8:16 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: 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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