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| Thread ID: 135467 | 2013-11-06 01:44:00 | Still a lot of people and businesses slow to see the value in moving up from XP.. | Webdevguy (17166) | PC World Chat |
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| 1358900 | 2013-11-06 05:31:00 | I sure if our used the bread crumb trails feature in Windows 7 you would learn to love it. Help me here Digby with your shorthand description !. Lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1358901 | 2013-11-06 05:32:00 | Every time I use an XP machine I fell like I've gone back 15 years in time. Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 are just so much better in every way. Thankfully we only have one left which is almost never used :D Help me here Digby with your shorthand description !. Lurking. Probably talking about this 5285 |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1358902 | 2013-11-06 05:45:00 | Those who "updated" with vista and similar pieces of nastiness might consider their date has been well and truly upped. It's their data that is scrambled. I quite like Win7, except that it kills a lot of software that is actually the reason for having the PC, so a couple still happily run on XP. Actually, I'm looking for a fresh new (to me) laptop running XP, and with a parallel port for running CAM machines, plus a serial port or two for sundry rather useful stuff that communicates via those evil doors to doom. Sadly, I really use PC's as tools these days, so any new OS is just a distraction from the functioning of the tool. For serious work and plain fun, Linux in all it's many flavours wins for me, but there is a lot of highly functional software that does not need any of the stupid layouts that W8 forces you to thwart to just get it sort of more-or-less as good as XP would be on a bad day. LOL ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1358903 | 2013-11-06 05:55:00 | Guilty on all counts, rofl. You might not re-call "hand written ledgers'" but this oldie has been through the lot and I still think there is nothing to compare with the beautifull hand written accouting methods of the past. Wife has W7 on her pc and every time I use it am glad to get back to an easier way of finding things under XP. Lurking. I'm guilty too! "If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it" is my motto, and like W3.1, W3.11, W95, W98 and W2K before it, XP has just worked for me. I am usually a couple of OS generations behind the pack! I don't jump ship in a hurry, so the next step will be to W7. I'll probably run that in XP mode for compatibility reasons, and I still have DOS programs that I have to run as well. I'll not even contemplate W8 in any shape or form, so W7 will have to see me through for quite some time to come. Cheers Billy 8-{) :( |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1358904 | 2013-11-06 06:30:00 | We still use Win XP machines at work mainly because they work well and we have a piece of accounting / logistics software that won't work on Win7. I'm just waiting for the first XP machine to terminal and wait for the screams that they can't use Navision any more.. We had up until last month a Win98 machine going for an old legacy PBX system in a hotel that finally got replaced a couple of weeks ago.., |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1358905 | 2013-11-06 06:33:00 | Guilty on all counts, rofl. You might not re-call "hand written ledgers'" but this oldie has been through the lot and I still think there is nothing to compare with the beautifull hand written accouting methods of the past. lurks. I certainly do remember those handwritten ledgers, my dad is a retired accountant who used to bring a lot of work him with him over the weekends through the late 70's and all through the 80's. I remember his office getting Excel and MS Office back in 1998. |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1358906 | 2013-11-06 07:29:00 | XP for the win... I'm still on it with my desktop, and it's re-morph into Vista has all (well mostly) been wonderful. The g/f still uses it for her business and her, being a bit of a luddite, refuses to change despite the fact that all her staff are at least Win7. | Greg (193) | ||
| 1358907 | 2013-11-06 08:23:00 | I have Win 8.1 at work and Win 7 at home. The only thing I don't like about Win8 is not being able to disable the tile screen, I use it on the desktop for CAD work and am unlikely to ever need the tile interface. Its frickin useless on a non touch screen You can make 8.1 boot directly to the desktop just like every other previous OS. The other day I setup a New 8.1 for a person, put all their shortcuts on the desktop like they had in W7, set it to boot to desktop. As the person commented -- whats the problem it works exactly like what I had, only faster. ? The person even had the exact same shutdown method that he asked for a few years back, one icon on the taskbar, 1 click - shutdown. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1358908 | 2013-11-06 09:25:00 | Our work still runs XP and is showing no signs of changing any time soon. It's getting so some websites tell me I need to upgrade my browser when I visit them, Gmail for example. Like a lot of large companies our IT policy is upgrade only if you have to, and we have a lot of legacy programs that need to work. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1358909 | 2013-11-06 10:18:00 | Our work still runs XP and is showing no signs of changing any time soon. It's getting so some websites tell me I need to upgrade my browser when I visit them, Gmail for example. Like a lot of large companies our IT policy is upgrade only if you have to, and we have a lot of legacy programs that need to work. That will be the newer HTML5 sites that are suited to IE9 and up. They do a lot more fancy stuff than the old IE8 sites and work better on mobile :) |
Webdevguy (17166) | ||
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