willay
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Anyone currently going through this?
I've got 2 quite important machines running XP which I'm currently migrating from but they run some specialised hardware for controlling big industrial machines.
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Ian W
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On Friday I migrated a Windows 95 machine to a Windows XP one   
Running old machinery with long dead unsupported software is a pain in the ass 
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pow
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Doing this over the next two weeks at work, good riddance as far as I'm concerned. All the better knowing that all of the machines bar 3 or 4 running XP will run Windows 8.1
Had a laugh with some special software but sussed most of it out
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oceansoul
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Got 8 or 9 to do at one of my sites. Although our servers will stay running NT4 
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Steve
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You can use xp mode in win 7 or above to run applications fairly seemlessy, runs in a cut down virtual xp enironment
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pow
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XP Mode is still just as shite
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Russ
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my organisation has 3000 xp machines..
we even buy new windows 8 machines and put xp on
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Aaron
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
my organisation has 3000 xp machines..
we even buy new windows 8 machines and put xp on
Your IT dept are either over-stretched, stupid...or skint.
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pow
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I've spent the day perfecting my mandatory profile for Windows 8.1 and I'm now ready to roll on my 60+ XP cull tomorrow
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Russ
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quote:
Originally posted by Aaron
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Originally posted by Russ
my organisation has 3000 xp machines..
we even buy new windows 8 machines and put xp on
Your IT dept are either over-stretched, stupid...or skint.
number 2.
too many women in charge and apprentices in post
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willay
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Wow this post has made me feel alot better about my situation.
I have 2 production machines to change, essentially controllers for big machiney, and thats it. We have 2 XPe machines on site but they will be supported till 2016 according to MS.
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dannymccann
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quote:
Originally posted by Russ
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Originally posted by Aaron
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Originally posted by Russ
my organisation has 3000 xp machines..
we even buy new windows 8 machines and put xp on
Your IT dept are either over-stretched, stupid...or skint.
number 2.
too many women in charge and apprentices in post
So un-PC but so true
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by dannymccann
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Originally posted by Russ
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Originally posted by Aaron
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Originally posted by Russ
my organisation has 3000 xp machines..
we even buy new windows 8 machines and put xp on
Your IT dept are either over-stretched, stupid...or skint.
number 2.
too many women in charge and apprentices in post
So un-PC but so true
Reminds of a few stories i've heard about the NHS - brand new Dell's with Win7/8 getting nuked to make way for XP. Explains why they're attempting to get an extended support deal with MS though....
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pow
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^^^ that happens an awful lot. When will they realise how much better Windows 7/8 is from a Group Policy/management aspect?
[Edited on 08-04-2014 by pow]
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