if not for Turbo tax and Quicken, I have zero use of Windows. I have tried all the windows emulators etc, but they are not there yet, so I still have a windows box.
A ordered a nice recent-model Dell Optiplex with Win 7 installed on eBay. Only $180 shipped, should work.
Your other choice is to install Linux immediately, but I need at least one Windows machine.
I’m retrieving my VMWare image for XP so I can update it. Then I’ll save it back to the archive in case I need it. Thanks for the info.
Just got the update alert for my Win7 and installed it. Now I gotta do the Win 7 laptop. I hate powering it up and seeing a bunch of needed updates.
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Windows XP support will be available after April 8—just not for you
Just this morning I fired up a copy of Excel 97 to make a graph that just can’t be done on any later versions. It’s on a PC in my garage that runs XP and doesn’t connect to anything. I’m not worried about updates, unless someone figures how to get PC viruses from mice.
Windows XP Professional and Office 2003 still does pretty much anything a computer user needs, even right now.
Everything else since has been just an attempt at further revenue generation for Microsoft via attempted IU enhancements and ‘under the hood’ features that the vast amount of residential users don’t even know exist.
Aside from Windows 7, everything they’ve released since Windows XP has been total crap, or not worth spending money on. One would think that with the amount of money they have, they could truly innovate. They seem to lack real direction. They should focus on what they do well, which is Servers/Clients in a corporate IT network environment with Office/productivity software. Instead, they try to do everything(like gaming and smartphones, ect) in a ‘shotgun’ approach, and end up not doing that great at anything as a result. Their smarphone OS has been a flop, the PS4 has been crushing the XBOX ONE in sales, and they are just treading water.
I suppose they may have cash to burn, and will eventually get their shit together, but I think they’ve had a ‘lost decade’.
Usually Microsoft issues an ISO image with the monthly patches. This month, I can’t find it. Weird......