[Elecraft] OT - End of the line for XP

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

I work in a VERY big bank - we have over 80,000 desktops and we use XP  
- at some point we will have to move on to Vista but it will be some  
years I recon
-- 
It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I  
have
not had time to remake the world. -Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)

On 9 Apr 2008, at 15:26, Joe Stofko wrote:
> Well, we all knew it would happen sooner, or later.
>
> Latest word is that Microsoft will stop shipping XP as of June 30.
> Personally, I do not like Vista..
>
> The eye candy is nice, but there's not much else about it that is  
> tugging at
> me to switch... I work in IT (K-12 Education). We have close to 2,000
> computers and most are running XP Pro. Well, as several vendors have
> mentioned... don't worry, there will be service packs, patches and  
> upgrades.
> I can think of an excellent one myself. It's called Linux !  ;-)