[Lowfer] A Question to Windows-7 users

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi,

I have a couple of older computers here including one that runs XP in a 
virtual machine under Linux. Those are NOT connected to the internet. 
You will have to break into my home if you want to steal the family's 
secret recipes or corrupt those computers. Good luck getting past the 
big dog. I'll be a short way beyond the dog with my friends Stevens and 
Savage.

73,

Bill  KU8H



On 01/08/2017 10:03 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
> 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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