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| Thread ID: 139764 | 2015-06-24 01:59:00 | Still not dead - | decibel (11645) | PC World Chat |
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| 1403518 | 2015-06-24 21:08:00 | I'm glad I don't have an account at that bank Are you under the delusion that later versions of Windows save you from malware attacks then? Relying on Windows alone is madness......you take precautions yourself with security. Like banks do. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1403519 | 2015-06-25 03:35:00 | I'm glad I don't have an account at that bank How do you know you don't? Not at the same branch obviously, but the same chain :p |
Nick G (16709) | ||
| 1403520 | 2015-06-25 08:52:00 | I'm glad I don't have an account at that bank Indeed - banks really shouldn't be running windows ... |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1403521 | 2015-06-25 12:04:00 | XP just seems to keep going. (arstechnica.com) Shh.. don't let pcuser42 see that, he'll have nightmares for weeks. ;) :p |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1403522 | 2015-06-25 20:59:00 | We're still using XP at work also, but it's starting to become an issue. Some websites will not work properly on IE8 for example so we have to install chrome or firefox. Other examples of needing workarounds are starting to appear also. The problem is most software developers have dropped support so even the workarounds & solutions are outdated in many cases. At some point we will be forced to update to maintain compatibility with our clients and their applications. Also eventually it becomes impossible to replace the hardware with something that will run XP natively (already kinda is, we have a few new laptops running 7 because they have to). None of this perhaps shows anything wrong with XP, but the reality is it will not last forever and will eventually reach a tipping point where most abandon it forever. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1403523 | 2015-06-25 21:04:00 | Some websites will not work properly on IE8 for example so we have to install chrome or firefox. IE8 is still an issue at work even though most PCs run Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. Since we get a lot of wholesale customers we still have to support IE8. I don't want to... |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1403524 | 2015-06-25 21:05:00 | It's definitely still alive! I was at the bank today, and the computers they were using were still XP. That would only be the terminals the tellers use, they will be linked into servers using a different OS which would hopefully be more upto date. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1403525 | 2015-06-25 21:34:00 | Shh.. don't let pcuser42 see that, he'll have nightmares for weeks. ;) :p He had Vista, and survived that just fine. He must be pretty tough. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1403526 | 2015-06-25 21:42:00 | He had Vista, and survived that just fine. He must be pretty tough. ;)I used Windows ME once. That was too much for me... :p | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1403527 | 2015-06-25 23:26:00 | I used Windows ME once. That was too much for me... :p I heard the stories but always thought 'it can't be that bad', they must be exaggerating... Then I tried it. And it was that bad, and a whole lot worse. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
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