On 2/3/2014 7:11 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/3/2014 6:32 PM, HanK wrote:
On 2/3/2014 6:19 PM, Tim wrote:
On Monday, February 3, 2014 3:14:06 PM UTC-6, HanK wrote:
On 2/3/2014 2:49 PM, wrote:

On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:49:45 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:



On 2/3/14, 11:46 AM, wrote:

On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 10:04:24 -0500, Poco Loco

wrote:



Maybe I'll stick with XP even after the support stops.



http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...are-in-january





Microsoft has not given their business users any compelling
reason to

switch.

If your mission is not significantly changing, why should you change

your hardware and software?

99% of all real business applications ran just fine on Windows
3.1 on

a 396. If you are just doing bookkeeping, inventory and point of
sale,

you don't need that much computing power.

All of these flashy graphics do not actually add much to the average

business man's operation.

Hardware is pretty stagnant these days so I am not really sure why

they need a different OS.







Apple offers incremental improvements to its OS, not do-overs, and
its

price is right. Mavericks, the latest, costs $0.00. I was going to
put

Win 7 on my Macbook Air, but for $100+, I simply decided not to waste

the money.



The OS is not free, it is just bundled into the overpriced hardware.

IBM did the same thing with the System 360, all the software was free

including on site support ... until LBJ sued them over it.



Apple gets away with it because they are still a small player.



Most people do not get the retail version of windows anyway. They get

it bundled with the software and it is about $35-40 that way based on

what you can get a bare (or linux) system for.



I don't even pay that. When you get an off lease machine the extra

cost is negligible and you could reinstall that OS on a brand new

machine if you wanted to. You just need the sticker ... or just the

numbers.

I am not even sure Microsoft is checking for duplicate XP

installations these days. I do have a good W-7 number if I wanted to

play with it but I have XP on that machine now.

I have still not seen a compelling need to go to 7 or 8.



I am not impressed with the idea that just being newer is always

better.



I just fired up a win 8.1 machine. So far everything is loading in

flawlessly, even the 1999 Mapsource from Garmin. I'm in the process of

loading the 2014 map data now. So far so good.

Can you do that on a Win7?

Yes. If you have a GPS WITH LIFETIME MAPS

From what I can determine Win 8 is basically Win 7 with an updated HMI
interface and display.



Goes deeper than that I think. I know there is a bios upgrade that has
something to do with the way the HDD stores information and how much of
it you get to use.... Haven't looked further than that, ran up aginst
that when we thought of taking our Win 8 system and reverting to 7..