I have over 30,000 clients running XP, which are being replaced with Windows 7 machines at the rate of about 5,000/year. At that rate I will be all in on Windows 7 when Windows 8 is approaching end of life.
Say what you want, but XP has been good for us from an enterprise standpoint. 7 is OK but has its quirks. And we are finally moving to DFS! Hallelujah! No more drive mapping! Dan who is migrating a file server right now courtesy of Robocopy Sent from my iPad On Jan 24, 2013, at 7:46 PM, Rick Knoble <rickkno...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 24, 2013, at 11:00 AM, "M G" <trainpain2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Yes I know that linux of some flavor or another may be installable but I >> have some older programs that require no later then XP in order to run. No I >> don't want to run XP in a virtual machine under linux or win7 as that is to >> me just too cumbersome. >> >> My thought is to see if anyone knows of a laptop that I can look for that >> has drivers for XP and will allow XP to be installed. I would prefer one >> that runs at 2+ ghz, has all the normal plugin possibilities, and will take >> a 6 gig drive or bigger. I don't need a huge screen and don't really like >> the keyboards that have a numeric keypad added in the right of the normal >> keyboard as I don't use it and it puts the keyboard off center and it feels >> wrong. >> >> So there it is. I would be grateful for any suggestions. > > > Ugh. Windows XP is almost at the end of its life cycle. All new computers > that are Windows based are shipping with Windows 8, which is three > generations newer than XP. You are hanging on to an obsolete operating > system. Windows 7 will run most XP programs in "XP mode" I believe. > A Lenovo T-60 or T-61 would fit your needs nicely. As would a Dell D-630. > I run Linux. Much like Apple products "it just works". I do have to boot into > Windows soon though, TurboTax doesn't make a Linux version. > > Rick > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
