# Anybod still using Windows XP?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybod-still-using-windows-xp/836636>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 6, 2019, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybod-still-using-windows-xp/836636 "2019-07-06T21:00:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybod-still-using-windows-xp/836636/41 "2019-07-09T21:54:54Z")

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> [@hajario](#):
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> Nice to see you, Sir!
> 
> We have a small handful of legacy machines running XP at work. IT would love for us to get rid of them but there a no resources to rewrite the programs that are used on them.

I had a couple customers who would not drop a dos era medical billing program even after the company that supported it went out of business causing all manner of support grief. I ended up cloning the drives to VM’s and running them under win10.

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**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybod-still-using-windows-xp/836636/42 "2019-07-09T23:30:49Z")

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> [@drachillix](#):
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> I had a couple customers who would not drop a dos era medical billing program even after the company that supported it went out of business causing all manner of support grief. I ended up cloning the drives to VM’s and running them under win10.

Whatever works, but FreeDOS is up-to-date and will run most of that stuff on “bare metal”. Unless it’s a UEFI-only machine.

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**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybod-still-using-windows-xp/836636/43 "2019-07-09T23:32:54Z")

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I do. I got a second-hand desktop from my folks when they upgraded. I use it to run PSPICE and other engineering programs from ‘the day.’ Beats using a slide rule, but there’s no way in hell I’m connecting it to the Internet.

Tripler  
Okay, okay. . . I use it for games too.

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