Anybod still using Windows XP?

[drachillix]

@hajario

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.

[DPRK]

@drachillix

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.

[Tripler]

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.