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Flightless Bird
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:280 -0400, "Neil Harrington"
<nobody@homehere.net> wrote:
>
>"Sj" <Sj@NOTforMAIL.not> wrote in message
>news:ifbf16ho5msvnj6vgb64qionouchvcs59o@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 217:22 -0500, "JC" <jjcardella@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>First allow me to apologize as I am no USENET guru. Typically when I
>>>decide
>>>to make a post in hopes some kind soul(s) will give some input/feedback
>>>towards my interests/concerns I am clueless which group to post to. But I
>>>will say I generally get a positive reponse where ever I post.
>>>
>>>For the past five or so years I have used 2000 on my home machines. They
>>>actually still use 98 on the clients where I work (which is medical
>>>laboratory) with an antiquated Novell network o/s and Oracle DBMS on the
>>>server. This is primarily due to the fact that I have very antiquated
>>>tools
>>>(Visual Cafe for my IDE with SDK 1.1); my app will only run on 98
>>>machines.
>>>Anyway, that is neither here nor there.
>>>
>>>My question is about Windows XP vs 7. I am at a point where I would like
>>>to
>>>upgrade my home machines to XP. Even though I've been using 2000 for so
>>>long
>>>(and very satisfied with it) I do have some XP experience/knowledge.
>>>Problem
>>>is that one of the used machines I just purchased has XP on it because
>>>that
>>>is what was on it when I got it. Seems like it is not possible to purchase
>>>XP nowadays. It is all Windows 7.
>>>
>>>A few friends here and there have had me come and look at their Windows 7
>>>machines. They think because I have a degree in CompSci/Math that I know
>>>everything there is to know about computers. I cannot make them understand
>>>I
>>>am a GUI programmer, database programmer, amateur DBA, and data analyst. I
>>>keep telling them I am not a technician but they will not believe me. The
>>>handful of times I've played around with a Windows 7 machine so far I've
>>>found it very counterintuitive and confusing. I do not like it at all! Not
>>>knowing much about XP anytime I've worked on an XP machine I've typically
>>>had little if any problems.
>>>
>>>So the question I guess: Is XP a thing of the past? Can I no longer get XP
>>>(it definitely is not in stores)? If I wanted to migrate the clients to XP
>>>at work would that not be possible?
>>>
>>>Many Thanks,
>>>-JC
>>
>> Here I thought I was the very last 2000 user on the planet!
>
>No, I'll bet there are still a lot of us using Win2000.
>> Can't help you w/ your question but will follow all the replies, as I
>> have access to an unused, relatively new 64 bit/Win 7 computer.
>>
>> My thoughts were to format the HD & install XP. Is that doable
>> on a 64 bit machine? And I didn't know Win 7 has an XP mode.
>>
>> I'm completely satisfied w/ my 2000 system & will stay w/ it till it
>> quits on me. [ . . . ]
>
>I have two Win2000 systems and I believe they are the only computers that
>have never given me any trouble of any kind. I've got three WinXP systems
>also (four if you count a little Samsung netbook), and I like XP very much,
>but its only real advantage over 2000 as far as I'm concerned is that
>nowadays it has significantly more support for both hardware and software.
I've had access to XP a few times & like it - but I have
a lot of old graphics programs, to go w/ my old scanner,
& would like to use them as long as I can - I'm even still
using ICQ
Sj
<nobody@homehere.net> wrote:
>
>"Sj" <Sj@NOTforMAIL.not> wrote in message
>news:ifbf16ho5msvnj6vgb64qionouchvcs59o@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 217:22 -0500, "JC" <jjcardella@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>First allow me to apologize as I am no USENET guru. Typically when I
>>>decide
>>>to make a post in hopes some kind soul(s) will give some input/feedback
>>>towards my interests/concerns I am clueless which group to post to. But I
>>>will say I generally get a positive reponse where ever I post.
>>>
>>>For the past five or so years I have used 2000 on my home machines. They
>>>actually still use 98 on the clients where I work (which is medical
>>>laboratory) with an antiquated Novell network o/s and Oracle DBMS on the
>>>server. This is primarily due to the fact that I have very antiquated
>>>tools
>>>(Visual Cafe for my IDE with SDK 1.1); my app will only run on 98
>>>machines.
>>>Anyway, that is neither here nor there.
>>>
>>>My question is about Windows XP vs 7. I am at a point where I would like
>>>to
>>>upgrade my home machines to XP. Even though I've been using 2000 for so
>>>long
>>>(and very satisfied with it) I do have some XP experience/knowledge.
>>>Problem
>>>is that one of the used machines I just purchased has XP on it because
>>>that
>>>is what was on it when I got it. Seems like it is not possible to purchase
>>>XP nowadays. It is all Windows 7.
>>>
>>>A few friends here and there have had me come and look at their Windows 7
>>>machines. They think because I have a degree in CompSci/Math that I know
>>>everything there is to know about computers. I cannot make them understand
>>>I
>>>am a GUI programmer, database programmer, amateur DBA, and data analyst. I
>>>keep telling them I am not a technician but they will not believe me. The
>>>handful of times I've played around with a Windows 7 machine so far I've
>>>found it very counterintuitive and confusing. I do not like it at all! Not
>>>knowing much about XP anytime I've worked on an XP machine I've typically
>>>had little if any problems.
>>>
>>>So the question I guess: Is XP a thing of the past? Can I no longer get XP
>>>(it definitely is not in stores)? If I wanted to migrate the clients to XP
>>>at work would that not be possible?
>>>
>>>Many Thanks,
>>>-JC
>>
>> Here I thought I was the very last 2000 user on the planet!
>
>No, I'll bet there are still a lot of us using Win2000.
>> Can't help you w/ your question but will follow all the replies, as I
>> have access to an unused, relatively new 64 bit/Win 7 computer.
>>
>> My thoughts were to format the HD & install XP. Is that doable
>> on a 64 bit machine? And I didn't know Win 7 has an XP mode.
>>
>> I'm completely satisfied w/ my 2000 system & will stay w/ it till it
>> quits on me. [ . . . ]
>
>I have two Win2000 systems and I believe they are the only computers that
>have never given me any trouble of any kind. I've got three WinXP systems
>also (four if you count a little Samsung netbook), and I like XP very much,
>but its only real advantage over 2000 as far as I'm concerned is that
>nowadays it has significantly more support for both hardware and software.
I've had access to XP a few times & like it - but I have
a lot of old graphics programs, to go w/ my old scanner,
& would like to use them as long as I can - I'm even still
using ICQ
Sj