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Microsoft pulls plug on Windows XP

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:20 am
by N4DES

Re: Microsoft pulls plug on Windows XP

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 2:26 pm
by MTS2000des
not a big deal, all it says is today CONSUMER PC's cannot be ordered with XP, downgrading is still possible, more importantly SP3 still has close to 3 years of support left (2014 so they article says) so XP isn't going anywhere overnight.

I know some organizations are still running NT4 SP6 on some workstations despite it no longer supported for several years.

Re: Microsoft pulls plug on Windows XP

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:59 pm
by Bill_G
I still have some dos boxes in service as well as a couple WFW boxes. Compaq and IBM used to make some great machines.

Re: Microsoft pulls plug on Windows XP

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:30 pm
by d119
I have to ask - what are you using WFW for?

Re: Microsoft pulls plug on Windows XP

Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 6:48 pm
by Bill_G
It's part of a scada system. Runs the polling process and gathers inbound packets.