Hey, start your own thread! If you want to use software that will last for decades, maybe you should find an OS where you can control what it does and doesn't run, like Open Source DosBox and FreeDOS. They run well on Linux.
Commercial and proprietary OSes are going to do what they want to do, not what necessarily what you want. On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > At 12:23 2015-06-12, Stephen Russell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > At 12:01 2015-06-12, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> > Guess what came on my laptop. And it was the Home edition so >> >> > XP Mode would not run on it. >> >> >> >> Home users needing to run 16-bit software I would imagine is a fairly >> >> tiny segment of the market. And there's always VirtualBox. > > >> > 1) Who says that home users are the only ones using the Home Edition? >> > "Home Edition" is only a name. The laptop that I purchased came with >> > the >> > Home Edition. It can run a lot of business software including Visual >> > FoxPro. >> > >> > 2) Microsoft broke 16-bit software on 64-bit Windows 7. Why couldn't >> > they have just kept the functionality? > > >> It's all Gene's fault. >> >> 16 bit SW in use today is few and far between. Seems that 64 bit is the >> leader today and yes you can still find a lot of 32 bit too. > > > Ah, IT by popularity. Never mind whether the app meets the user's > needs. > >> As a professional you should have considered the owners of the product >> have >> depreciated XP some time back. > > > The word is "deprecated". > > Are you still using Visual FoxPro? As a professional you should > consider the owners of the product deprecated Visual FoxPro some time back. > Well, are you "professional" by the standard that you are trying to tie to > me, or are you are a hypocrite? > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirhenko > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4sgb0xoetqcoievrv8lr9evcuojmqxgymdlqfe-ow2...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
