windows xp

[hartigan5]

will i have to change my windows x p for windows 7 after April because i have been told x p will not be
reconised pat

[VHG]

Recognised by who or what?

You can go on using Windows XP as long as you like.

Microsoft have stopped formal support of XP, but they are still fixing it if it goes wrong, so I see no problem with staying with it.

Millions and millions of people are still using Windows XP and will continue to do so for years.

This text was typed on a Windows XP computer.

I am sure there are people still using Windows 95 or 98 which are over 12 years old.

[hartigan5]

Thank you vhg you are a star my mind is at rest now . because my brother inlaw
said i would have to change to windows 7 but i did not want to do thank you so much pat

[another-view]

You don't have to change at all. I still use Windows 98, as it does everything I need it to do.

[VHG]

>because my brother inlaw said i would have to change to windows 7

Never listen to "brothers in law" !! (I do get annoyed with people who think they are computer experts and give their opinion as "facts")

As a matter of opinion, did he say WHY you would have to change.

[tamborine]

reminds me of the centenary fright......we were all warned PCs would crash & to buy new for 2000.....huge hoax ;)

[squarebear]

You've got to be kidding me tamborine?!!

The reason you didn't notice anything is because people like me put in long hours to correct the issues. The fact that you didn't notuce anything means we did a good job.

Imagine a train heading towards a canyon. The passengers are warned that the train will plummet down the ravine. A team of engineers, architects and builders are all frantically working away building a bridge across the canyon and the train glides smoothly over.

The passengers now think. Pah! what was the fuss about, we didn't notice anything!

It's the same with the millennium bug. Because of people behind the scenes, you didn't notice anything.

[hartigan5]

thankyou yes he told me it would crash and that would be it pat

[bibblebub]

Microsoft will provide extended support for XP until April 8, 2014.

[squarebear]

and even when that support stops, your PC will still work fine.

[hartigan5]

vhg thanks yes my brother in law said my computer would crash and that would be it i would have to buy new pat

[tamborine]

I fast-forwarded my lappy date to test it; no probs..............nowt to do with fixes - spurious programming? ;)

[rojash]

"The reason you didn't notice anything is because people like me put in long hours"

and me...

tamborine: Nobody claimed that ALL software would suffer from the Y2K bug (except perhaps the media), but much of it did - mostly business software.

I have one client who's code I did not have the source to, but managed to fix a kludge so that it would continue to work. This was to give them time to switch to a compliant program. This year, they have finally been forced to switch because the kludge failed when the date hit 2010.

[philg]

And that "millenium bug hoax" did have a root in fact

When I was a programmer, computer storage was SO expensive, we saved every byte we could every place we could

A date was dd/mm/yyyy (10 characters) - we could squeeze that do ddmmyyyy easily (now 8 characters) - by taking the "19" away (all dates had "19" as the start of the year - right?) we got to ddmmyy

If you store as yymmdd you could even sort on dates

991231 comes AFTER 980101

Snag is, after the Y2K, Jan 1st 2000 would become 000101 which comes BEFORE all of the 19xxxx dates

It really WAS a big deal and caused a lot of sweat and tears to put right

[vulcan]

squarebear,rojash and philg. Why is it the backroom boys never get the credit they deserve and have you noticed you're being ignored on this thread as well ?

[bibblebub]

As an ex-member of the software engineers' club myself, not being given credit was something that you just got used; laughing at the ignorance of the sales staff usually provided a crumb of comfort.

[netibiza]

They are still selling notebooks with windows XP!

[squarebear]

What did you expect to find y altering the date on your PC? What testing did you do once the date had advanced?