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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: Completely off topic...but is Windows XP dead?
« on: January 24, 2013, 08:31:38 PM »
My company uses all Windows 7 Pro 64-bit machines except for our phone PBX, which runs a custom embedded XP Pro.  I think that's the only place you're likely to see XP in the future, i.e., I was at a Sheetz and noticed one of their food-ordering computers was rebooting, with an XP screen.

Tried Windows 8 and hated it, and it won't run some of our business-critical apps (SQL stuff, mostly), so that's a no-go!
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: Completely off topic...but is Windows XP dead?
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2013, 02:09:40 AM »
Quote from: ChuckT;723830
If you buy a new computer, you won't have a choice.  Dell is forcing Windows 8 on everyone.


That's only for crap they sell at places like Best Buy.  Dell's business line is still entirely available with Windows 7.  Even they're not so stupid as to shoot themselves in the foot that badly!  ;)
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