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Microsoft offers Windows XP users $100 to upgrade
SFGate ^
| 3-21-14
| Julie Balise
Posted on 03/24/2014 8:02:11 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:03:10 PM PDT
by
SADMILLIE
To: smokingfrog
Can I downgrade to XP and claim the rebate?
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:03:20 PM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: smokingfrog
People love XP and hate the rest. I wish I still had XP. I know lawyers that are still using Windows 98. Lawyers do not like change. Especially change for stupid reasons. You will find lawyers all across the country using old but perfectly good stuff.
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:04:37 PM PDT
by
yldstrk
( My heroes have always been cowboys)
To: yldstrk
I miss MS-DOS, WordPerfect 5.1 and Lotus 123. Nothing ever crashed.
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:08:51 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(The Obamanation Continues)
To: smokingfrog
Let me guess: All the computers offered in the "deal" come with the dreaded Win8 loaded? Just where is the list of these machines, I want nothing to do with poking at the screen.
Beside, with my eyes, the monitor is out of reach..........
I will likely take the advice of FReepers and just buy a new machine with Win7 loaded on it in the near future. Looks like less that $700 gets a darn nice box.
To: yldstrk
Windows XP behaves predictively. Windows 7 seems to do things on its’ own that I can't figure out why, and doesn't seem to remember my preferences on certain things. Windows 8, I'm dreading the day I need to make that upgrade. I still have Windows 98se on a machine that I use for word processing and report writing.
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:14:33 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: SADMILLIE
Right, those not using the net in particular for business will probably die 50 years from not with XP.
Was at Whole Foods today and I saw their registers are on XP.
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:16:36 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: smokingfrog
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:17:32 PM PDT
by
right way right
(America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
To: martin_fierro; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Swordmaker
They should offer $100 rebates to anyone who bought a machine with this P/OS 8.x installed on it. There was a rumor that they were going to start giving it away (free download), but I don’t think that ever came about.
Thanks smokingfrog
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:20:05 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: smokingfrog
My last XP computer blew up about a month ago.
I noticed my doctor was using XP for he medical record computer during a recent visit.
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:23:27 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
To: doorgunner69
To: smokingfrog
Already got a macbook pro. My next desktop will be a mac. MS is stuck on stupid.
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:25:49 PM PDT
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: smokingfrog
I have several computers in my business. Several are still XP, I love it. The XP machines never crash, one secret is never upgrade them, just never go anywhere on the web except sites you know. I do have to admit that at my desk I have 7 and love it. We have a couple of 8.1’s I hate it. I have installed the clam shell start button and it helps but it still sucks.
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:31:10 PM PDT
by
JAKraig
(Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
To: smokingfrog
Direct Link"Save $100 when you buy any Surface Pro 2 or select PCs over $599."
To: smokingfrog
I read where something like 80% to 90% of ATM machines are still using XP.
Shutting off XP support is gonna piss off the banking industry, and make them think hard about Linux!
Sum ting wong soon!
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:35:34 PM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: KarlInOhio
My dentist has a pretty new office. Someone in her family is a computer techie that set up her office system and they all appear to run on XP pro.
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:38:32 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: yldstrk
Using my XP right now. In the other room I have a Windows 98 that I use to interface to an old scanner that won’t upgrade to anything else. its a perfectly good scanner its just that there is no patch to update it for later versions and I’ve searched the web extensively for a solution —so I use the 98 and the scanner as an out of date but perfectly good marriage between the two.
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:41:07 PM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or Tyranny)
To: Dalberg-Acton
I’d be tempted to get a Surface Pro, but they’re still too expensive in my opinion.
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posted on
03/24/2014 8:41:25 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
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