[Elecraft] Re" ham shack computers...

[Don Wilhelm]

Dave,

That says we can obtain updates for WinXP until April 8, 2014.  That 
gives me almost 2 1/2 years to consider where I go from this point 
forward for my choice of Operating Systems.  Much of that choice will be 
made based on the applications that I wish to run and my computing 
budget.  Maybe I can find some method of making my Linux computers have 
full file access to my Windows based network shared files, but so far, 
Samba has not done the deed properly for me - sometimes it works, 
sometimes not.  I do hope that is resolved because for economy reasons, 
the upgrade for me from WinXP is Ubuntu - I just have too many computers 
running WinXP to purchase Win7 for all of them.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 10/20/2011 10:15 PM, Dave Perry wrote:
> My last email lost its format.
> This is from Microsoft's website:
>
> Desktop operating systems      Windows XP
>         End of mainstream support         April 14, 2009
>         End of extended support            April 8, 2014
>
>
> I'm an XP fan, but it does look like XP is close to coming to an end. 
> Mainstream support is for consumers.  Extended support is for 
> commercial users.  I'm still getting updates and patches for my XP 
> machines, but who knows how long that will last.
>
> Dave, N4QS
>