Our older machines probably supply a chunk of your 14%... We have a couple
still set up to dual boot into Win98 and two running machinery, one on Win NT
and another on PC DOS 6.3
As someone already said..why upgrade? We don't allow them on the internet and
they are all standalone so they are no risk to the network. They have done
their job for many years, if I upgrade them it costs money and I risk
breaking them and having to spend even more time and money to fix them. To
tempt people to pay for an upgrade they have to be getting some benefit in
return...paying to upgrade and getting a slower system isn't tempting me. If
the old computers break we will buy a new one......and probably reinstall
Win98 if we need Win
Kevin.
On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:59, jason corcoran wrote:
Got this from le reg.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/15/windows2000_nicely/
they are hitting the *end of life* for Win2k yet there are 48% of pc's with
it running. Are they trying to force people to upgrade? (shock horror)
They put the coverage of XP at 38% leaving 14% split between linux,mac and
older OS's (Dos, win 98, win95 and OS2)
These numbers sound right?
J.
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