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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
reconised pat
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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
said i would have to change to windows 7 but i did not want to do thank you so much pat
12:38 Mon 01st Mar 2010
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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
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
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