[Elecraft] OT - End of the line for XP

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of David Ferrington,
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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
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It was just 8 years ago that Intel asked me to develop training modules on
how to use Widows Xp some of their call center staff. There was a huge
amount of angst over what problems Xp might cause. Drivers were near the top
of the list of concerns.

That was a long time ago in the lifespan of most technology. And Xp has a
number of years of Microsoft support ahead of it on current systems, such as
the one I'm using now. Even after that, it'll live on. I've got one machine
still running Windows Me, and it runs quite nicely (for a machine with a 500
MHz Pentium III and a few hundred k of RAM <g>). I know others still running
various versions of DOS! 

Fortunately new software does not immediately displace everything else,
except in the minds of those hardy folks who choose to be "early adopters".
Their experiences work out the bugs for the rest of us who merely want a
reliable tool to use. 

I'm happy to be an early adopter of new communications technology. It's what
interests me. 

I'll leave the software for those who enjoy doing that. 

Ron AC7AC