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    Company I work for still uses XP on the registers in the retail stores. We have to fucking replace every single machine because of this next year. That's like 70 stores with 3-5 registers per store. Those machines aren't running Win7 with their shitty 6 year old motherboards. Had to fight and fight 2 years ago to upgrade the RAM to 2 gigs from 512 mb.

    Shits bullocks.

    Any company that takes CC will be forced to upgrade due to PCI Compliance by the way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Insanecyclone View Post
    A lot of schools, at least to my knowledge, still use XP on their computers around here. I wonder if this will force them to upgrade to 7 next year.
    I'm sure a lot will sitll use windows XP even after its past its point of "no more updates" considering a lot of people jsut don't even think about updating at all. Unless microsoft sends out something like a mass "WIndows XP updates are no longer availible, your pretty fucked from here on out" notice on that day, nothing much will change except maybe big companies, may consider migrating, home users? nah

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    Quote Originally Posted by djzombie View Post
    people go to microsoft for support?
    ^

    Everytime I need help I pass over the 1st 3 google links because they are always MS support links that dont offer shit lol.

    And about time they stopped supporting xp. Only thing that sucks was XP was a great target to attack and so many people still use it ;_;

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meresgi View Post
    ^

    Everytime I need help I pass over the 1st 3 google links because they are always MS support links that dont offer shit lol.

    And about time they stopped supporting xp. Only thing that sucks was XP was a great target to attack and so many people still use it ;_;
    By "support" they mean patches and security updates too. So it'll only get worse for people who don't upgrade.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Isiolia View Post
    By "support" they mean patches and security updates too. So it'll only get worse for people who don't upgrade.
    Anyone using xp doesn't patch anyways it seems, and 75% of the time don't even have their firewalls open so you can just sneak in with a ms08_67 smb exploit and take over their system. Just from a lot of the people I know that is, i'm sure some do actually patch and shit. I just had to go look at an xp machine today where they had disabled patching, I asked them when the last time they did it was and they were like "umm....never?"

    This was a business btw, and the computer in question housed all of their financial shit.

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    I'm proly one of the rare ones that install patches for my XP, I guess then. Still running it due to old pc. As people proly know from the Geomancer thread, I do have a single-core processor and stuff; working on getting the moolah to finally upgrade (read, total rebuild) because of this. I kept 98 way past it's expiry date, I won't keep XP past that. Not as long as I can come up with $400.

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    Literally did a property wide re-image to 7 for the majority of PCs we have

    Only a handful left, but with a year remaining not really a huge rush

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    Quote Originally Posted by djzombie View Post
    people go to microsoft for support?
    You have obviously never worked in enterprise IT.

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