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smlunatick
Flightless Bird
On Apr 28, 9:18 pm, "Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]" <.@.> wrote:
> >Good day,
>
> >I'm in the Point of Sale field. I have well over 200 pos terminals
> >with 2000 pro on them. I'm told that when MS stops updating it, that
> >they all will not be PCI Compliant and they must be upgraded. Some have
> >2000 pro product keys and others don't. I took over this area from an
> >out of business dealer.
>
> >Any ideas as to the best, fastest and most affordable way to accomplish
> >this?
>
> >Any help will be appreciated.
>
> >ecpos
>
> PCI Compliant? Hardly. Too bad that Windows XP has now gone to
> Extended Support Agreement. You'll get patches for it until 2014 but
> that's it. If you ABSOLUTELY have to move to XP, you *might* be able
> to get a site license agreement with MS. Otherwise, you option are
> kind of limited this late in the game.
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]
Site license might need to be multiple site license. I have never
really found a single "big box store" that would have 200 Point Of
Sale (POS) cash systems.
> >Good day,
>
> >I'm in the Point of Sale field. I have well over 200 pos terminals
> >with 2000 pro on them. I'm told that when MS stops updating it, that
> >they all will not be PCI Compliant and they must be upgraded. Some have
> >2000 pro product keys and others don't. I took over this area from an
> >out of business dealer.
>
> >Any ideas as to the best, fastest and most affordable way to accomplish
> >this?
>
> >Any help will be appreciated.
>
> >ecpos
>
> PCI Compliant? Hardly. Too bad that Windows XP has now gone to
> Extended Support Agreement. You'll get patches for it until 2014 but
> that's it. If you ABSOLUTELY have to move to XP, you *might* be able
> to get a site license agreement with MS. Otherwise, you option are
> kind of limited this late in the game.
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]
Site license might need to be multiple site license. I have never
really found a single "big box store" that would have 200 Point Of
Sale (POS) cash systems.