You cannot run an in-place upgrade from x86 to x64 on any Windows OS. XP was released 11 years ago. At the time extended support stops, they'll have released 4 new versions (Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1) since XP was first GA. I think that's plenty long (too long) to support a client OS without comparing them to the Borg.
-----Original Message----- From: hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of FORC5 Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 9:44 AM To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] dumb question I agree completely but for a business customer, built 4 systems, PURCHASED the SW and he is getting WGA messages on two of them. Not had a change to get there and see what is up with that. There are a lot of PPL and businesses I believe will be using XP for a long time to come, I guess as with the Borg and MS resistance is futile ! But it costs money and a lot of ppl do not have a lot a loose change these days. Computers OS's are low priority to most. I am going to suggest to them that now may be a good time to froggy hop to W7. I'll try to explain the security issues to them. Not sure if all their SW is compatible or not. Dread doing 4 clean installs, last time did ONE and cloned the rest and changed the keys and the network ID's, identical HW on all 4. thanks fp At 07:33 AM 8/23/2013, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: >Don't think so. They are completely different code bases. Besides, >should be moving off XP anyways. Next April Microsoft stops issuing >security patches for XP forever. It's basically open season on >anything running XP after that. > > > >--------- >Brian Date: Friday, August 23rd, 2013 ***Caution, Tagline Below *** **Tallyho** ****************************************** You can't judge Egypt by Aida. ******************************************
