Subj : Re: Proposal to Keep WinXP Support "Alive" To : All From : greegor47@gmail.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:14 pm Received: by 10.224.180.141 with SMTP id bu13mr7734861qab.2.1355737788435; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:49:48 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.49.94.129 with SMTP id dc1mr2298837qeb.22.1355737788400; Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:49:48 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!fee der.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!ee4no101825qab.0!news-out.google.com!k 2ni804qap.0!nntp.google.com!ee4no101815qab.0!postnews.google.com!f4g2000yqh.goo glegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.windows-xp,alt.os.windows-xp,microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment,mi crosoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:49:48 -0800 (PST) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f4g2000yqh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=199.189.229.221; posting-account=5SXNEQkAAAC6SFadCHPE9O-jLMHq7h-Y NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.189.229.221 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C),gzip(gfe) Message-ID: <669769ce-c1a1-4f17-90f0-68768fc8dab6@f4g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Proposal to Keep WinXP Support "Alive" From: Greegor Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:49:48 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: mx04.eternal-september.org alt.windows-xp:3961 alt.os.windows-xp:5367 microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment:2420 microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:30815 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:105920 Microsoft's big opportunities to sell new versions of Windows used to accompany hardware 6x faster than the previous hardware. This entails huge costs, much greater than the mere cost of computers and Windows. Adapting or replacing old, expensive or proprietary software is a huge expense, as is any retraining caused by such changes. But these huge expenses were seen as worthwhile because of the 6x speed increase. Those days are over. The applications that pay the bills for large corporate users are things like order entry, order recall, inventory, database, telephone services scripts (Oracle) and word processing. One outfit has about 150 computer workstations in one room alone, plus about 30 more among offices and operation center. But they have about 25 such locations. Upgrading from XP would offer them no advantage whatsoever. Even though an operating system is crucial for a computer, it is nonetheless a minor fraction of the overall cost. If Microsoft is going to force that MASS of old computers to be replaced with no real advantage and for no real reason aside from the marketing needs of Microsoft, it becomes a bit like the tail wagging the dog. What does Microsoft get per new OEM computer with Win8? Maybe $30? Yet they expect to force old systems to be scrapped and new computers which provide no actual advantage to be purchased at about $700 per system?? Just to fulfill Microsoft's MARKETING NEEDS?? To force corporate customer service centers to landfill/scrap all of those WinXP-Pro computers by cutting off revised SECURITY UPDATES is blatantly a MARKETING PLOY by Microsoft. And not a very nice one. Cutesy tiles instead of icons? Big deal. How about that Android, eh? --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .