[Lowfer] A Question to Windows-7 users

[Zack Widup]

I have a laptop running Windows XP. It is a slightly older laptop that has
real RS-232 and parallel ports. I have several pieces of equipment that use
these. I have had no problems with it.

We have a computer at work that is used to run a CNC PC board machine. It
runs Windows XP because the software for the machine will not work on
anything later.  But it is a dedicated machine; that is the only function
it is used for and it is not connected to the internet.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 1:17 AM, KD7JYK DM09 <kd7jyk at earthlink.net> wrote:

> : The IT department at my employer upgraded all our computers (hundreds, if
> : not thousands of them) to Windows 7 shortly after Microsoft announced
> they
> : were no longer going to support XP after such and such date. Trust me,
> our
> : IT department never upgrades *anything* unless they have a good reason
> to.
>
> Or think they do because someone else told them so and they felt they
> needed
> to react.  I can't help but notice that despite a lack of "support",
> nothing
> ever changed or got worse.  DOS still works, 3.11, 98SE, XP, no change
> other
> than someone else somewhere else that has nothing to do with me my
> computers, or anyone I know, said something else to someone else...
> Limited, yes, but other that that, everything they could do, they still
> can,
> including many things that came years later. Seems a pretty poor reason to
> change at my time and expese.
>
> I'm reasonable, I've been waiting for what they say will happen, to happen,
> anything, just once...
>
> Kurt
>
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