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XP support extended til 2020
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While I think many companies are still using XP right now. Offering Xp support till 2020 would be like offering support for MS DOS 6.0 right now. o.k. Windows 95 maybe.
By 2020 I think we'd be looking at Windows 10 with limited support for Windows 9 even less for 8, and Windows 7 all but forgotten like Windows 2000 is now.
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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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By 2020 I think we'd be looking at Windows 10 with limited support for Windows 9 even less for 8, and Windows 7 all but forgotten like Windows 2000 is now.
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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
Behind the Web, Tips and Tricks for Web Development.
JockMullin
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Hopefully they won't do that because legacy system support keeps some of us elder geeks employed.
I know several people happily running Win2K systems as peer to peer servers or device handlers. I myself run a Win 98 print server. I have a customer whose old Novell 3.12 server has not even been rebooted since before Vista was released - it just sits there working away. And they have a mixture of MS-DOS 6 & XP workstations on a private network that processes up to 30K orders a week, many of which come in on (gasp) floppy disk.
If it does the job and ain't broke ...
For sure come 2020 there will still be XP systems out there. If I'm still able I'll try to remember to gloat
Jock
I know several people happily running Win2K systems as peer to peer servers or device handlers. I myself run a Win 98 print server. I have a customer whose old Novell 3.12 server has not even been rebooted since before Vista was released - it just sits there working away. And they have a mixture of MS-DOS 6 & XP workstations on a private network that processes up to 30K orders a week, many of which come in on (gasp) floppy disk.
If it does the job and ain't broke ...
For sure come 2020 there will still be XP systems out there. If I'm still able I'll try to remember to gloat
Jock
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