On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:46:56 -0500, 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.

And the new stuff is a PITA to learn. I'm happy with XP, But I was just as happy with 3.1 for
workgroups.

On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 12:38:14 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:

On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 11:46:56 -0500, 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.

And the new stuff is a PITA to learn. I'm happy with XP, But I was just as happy with 3.1 for
workgroups.

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Both of my navigation computers on the boat are still running XP and
doing just fine. Support for new hardware and web browsers is
becoming increasingly problematic however. My newer machines are
mostly Win 7 these days and I like it a lot.