But that's three or four years. A lot can happen in that time. For any of us.
Sandra Fouts Phone Counselor Arkansas Attorney General's Office 323 Center Street, Ste 200 Little Rock, AR 501-371-2303 Fax 501-682-8118 -----Original Message----- From: net bat [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:57 PM To: GW INFO Subject: Re: It's your choice, Windows Seven or XP xp will work fine as long as you don't plan on going on line. there will be no support for any of your current software if you need help. there will not be anymore critical updates to help keep the hackers out of your computer. no more xp driver support for anything you might want to buy or replace when it goes bad. no xp support for window eyes or jaws, no xp support at all after 2013 so if you are going to use your computer for a fishing weight the go ahead. thats all it will be good for in 3 or 4 years. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert C" <[email protected]> To: "Jim Grimsby JR." <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:13 PM Subject: Re: It's your choice, Windows Seven or XP > What problem? Who says one has to upgrade all the time? And dont > forget, there are alternatives. Who cares if IE 9 will not work on XP? > IE 8 and older still wroks. As does Firefox. > > This mentality of upgrading all the time does not make sense at all. > No sooner you buy a new computer, its obsolete. There is always > something newer better bigger. Productivity? How many people really > care? What is it that drives so many people to try to get the latest and the > greatest? > Take the new iPhone as an example. 600,000 pre orders in the first > week and many people camped out overnight to be first in line to buy > them when they were released. Insanity. > > XP will run just fine for years. So will the software that is used > now. > > Quote of the nanosecond. . . > I disagree with unanimity. > Robert & Dreamer Doll ke7nwn > E-mail- > [email protected] > Home Page- > http://webpages.charter.net/dog_guide/ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Grimsby JR." <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:54 PM > Subject: RE: It's your choice, Windows Seven or XP > > >> Hi, the problem with this is that more and more software is not >> going to work on xp. So at some point you're going to have to choose >> if you want to use the latest software to upgrade. For example >> internet explorer 9 isn't going to work on xp. The windows live >> programs are not going to work and there are others. Just like with >> windows 9x did a few years ago the productivity is going to decrease >> for those users who do not choose to upgrade. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pat Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:36 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: It's your choice, Windows Seven or XP >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I want you all to know, that just because we have chosen to go to >> Windows Seven, we still have several computers here using XP for >> various reasons, one of them being money it costs to upgrade. >> >> I also wouldn't tell everyone to upgrade to Windows Seven, either. >> It's an individual choice as to what one wants to do. <smile> >> >> Just becuase many of us choose to use Windows Seven, that doesn't >> mean that Windows XP isn't loving! <smile> lol. >> >> Now, let's all be kind and loving to each other. <smile> >> >> I think that those loving folks at GW Micro put up with a lot here. >> <grin> >> lol. >> >> I'm personally glad I don't run this list. <grin> lol. >> >> If I didn't have a loving husband who is very techy and who installs >> everything here, I mean operating systems, I would probably still be >> using XP. lol. >> Operating systems are Blessings. >> >> Pat Ferguson >> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original >> sender only. 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