Advice Requested on Life Expectancy of a PC Windows System

[Dave G4UGM]

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> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred
Cisin
> Sent: 30 June 2015 16:06
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> Subject: Re: Advice Requested on Life Expectancy of a PC Windows System
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> > 	I don't think this qualifies as answers persay, but more just data
> > points really...
> > 	I have successfully installed & run Win7 x86 & x64 on Dell Latitude
> > D620, D630, D820 & D830. Not sure on the age, but they gotta be
> > getting on to around 7 years. The RAM they have varies between 2GB &
> 4GB.
> > 	I have also installed Win8 x64 on a Latitude D830, then proceeded to
> > swap that drive into a D620. Yesterday, I just "upgraded" a D820 from
> > WIn7x64 to Win10 x64 preview; 3GB RAM, we'll see how that goes...
> > 	In other words, you should not be using WinXP anymore unless you
> have
> > an app that just won't work with Win7.
> 
> Why not??!?
> Why do the experts advocate not using something that had been working?
> 

Because the base OS and Applications no longer supports current internet
standards ?


> The fact that you CAN "upgrade", doesn't seem to imply that you SHOULD.
> 
> 
> > In that case, ditch the program or run  in a VM.
> 
> Why?
> 
> If the hardware is becoming too unreliable, . . .
> If you need some sort of unavailable support, . . .
> 
> Otherwise, WHY change?
>