There's another one of those silly Windows misconceptions.
I administer an office full of XP machines, many of which are still running the original install of Windows they came with from Dell back in 2004. (Service packed and patched, of course.)
..and yes, those are some old machines.
Hi,
Know what you mean by old machines, I am using a Dell now as one of my experimental computers for things like AROS, different Linux OS's, and Amiga forever.
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Yes I can see why you stick up for micro crap, after all that is your job and how you make your bucks, now lets get down to the real reason that these machines stay up and running with out the 6 month thing, which is probably nightly backups, constant upgrades (don't know if this is all good though since most of my problems came from upgrades) limited use by personnel, in other words you keep them locked out of a lot of stuff, and give very few people administrative rights. You also have them locked out of a lot of internet sites, that is if you let them use the internet.
Not only that but WinXP is probably the best windows OS for being problem free, although Windows 7 is close.
Bet you can't say that you have done only one backup since 2004, but I can say that with my Amiga 4000 I have done only one backup since 1992 and I use my computer every day, and by the way I have upgraded my computer to OS 3.5 and OS 3.9 and used my one backup to bring in all my important data, now I am not going t say how many times that backup was upgraded to save new material, lharc is a wonderful program for this.
Well that is one thing Microsoft has done good for the world, it has created lots of jobs keeping there crappy OS running.
smerf