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Old 07-19-2010, 08:06 PM   #1
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Default Windows XP will never die

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Old 07-19-2010, 08:10 PM   #2
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Not surprised at all, considering the current economic climate.
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And considering the utter fail of successive Winblows products.
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Old 07-19-2010, 08:57 PM   #4
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We are still running XP at our facility. 7 hasn't been approved yet.
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Old 07-19-2010, 09:24 PM   #5
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7 is by far the best OS that MS has ever released.
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7 is by far the best OS that MS has ever released.
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Old 07-19-2010, 10:05 PM   #7
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We are still running XP at our facility. 7 hasn't been approved yet.
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7 is by far the best OS that MS has ever released.
I work for the government, which means we'll get Windows 7 about the time that Windows 15 comes out.
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Old 07-19-2010, 10:11 PM   #8
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I work for the government, which means we'll get Windows 7 about the time that Windows 15 comes out.
Yeah... we just got approved Vista... err... FORCED to use Vista... I fucking HATE IT!

but instead of sitting on XP and waiting for 7... they jump from XP decently quick and will be on Vista forever now...
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Old 07-19-2010, 10:13 PM   #9
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I work for the government, which means we'll get Windows 7 about the time that Windows 15 comes out.
Yup. I work for NIST-National Institute of Standards and Technology. We are still on XP. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Definitely. I think about 75% of our enterprise clients are running Win 7 as of last month and I've not heard of any OS-centric issues.
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