Need to upgrade Windows XP installation - please help

[TheDoctor]

Commercial stuff in general. My last employer is on W7, having moved on from XP about 3 years ago.
I don't suppose many businesses that are running Vista or W8

 

[mustang1]

They aren't networked to the outside world so could happily run XP indefinitely.

Iirc NT4 had some kind of military certification as long as it wasn't connected to a network. (irony is my point).

 

[Brains]

I have a friend, who is now past retirement age, he still works one day a week at Barclays head office.
He is a COBOL programmer

They still have mission critical systems that rely on COBOL, which has been around since 1958!

 

[midlife]

Bring back GEM desktop, that's what I say!

GEM as in the stuff that came with the Amstrad 1512 ?

Shaun

 

[ColinJ]

Is it not the case that mission critical stuff where failures can prove deadly always used technology a few generations older as it has been tried and tested?

That might be my USP if I ever decide to look for another partner!

 

[marknotgeorge]

Commercial stuff in general. My last employer is on W7, having moved on from XP about 3 years ago.
I don't suppose many businesses that are running Vista or W8

We have a couple of old laptops in the office that are deliberately not updated because they run old versions of Sage. The everyday PCs run the latest version, and we use these to upgrade backups from clients who use old versions - Sage will only restore backups from a couple of versions ago. One of those runs Vista.

 

[DaveReading]

Any more talk like this and I'll be shamed into replacing my Windows 2000 server.

 

[PeteXXX]

GEM as in the stuff that came with the Amstrad 1512 ?

Shaun

Prior to that, the CPC 474

 

[TheDoctor]

...and the Amiga IIRC.

EDIT - ST was it? My memory is obviously having parity errors.

 

[marknotgeorge]

...and the Amiga IIRC.

Noooo! GEM was on the Atari ST! The Amiga used it's own operating system!

 

[mustang1]

I can still run PlayStation 1 games in my playstation 1. If I don't need to run anything else, why upgrade? Same goes for Windows XP..

 

[mybike]

GEM as in the stuff that came with the Amstrad 1512 ?

Shaun

Also the 1640 - came with a nice little utility to run higher resolution colour on the basic 1640.

 

[Drago]

You can run Windows XP in your Playstation 1?

 

[midlife]

Also the 1640 - came with a nice little utility to run higher resolution colour on the basic 1640.

I bet you bought a 10 meg hard card . I did LOL

Iirc gem sat on top of TOS on the Atari?

Shaun

 

[mybike]

I bet you bought a 10 meg hard card . I did LOL

Iirc gem sat on top of TOS on the Atari?

Shaun

Yes, I got a dodgy one from Tandy's that shut down if it got too hot. 10M, that was so BIG!!!