Windows XP No Longer Available After October 22

Dell sent me a note reminding me that they will no longer be able to ship computers with the Windows XP Professional downgrade option after October 22. They said orders must be in by October 1, but I'll bet we get some play with that date, but don't count on October 22 moving. .

We still sell many systems with XP because almost none of our customers with servers have upgraded to Windows 7.

We'll miss Windows XP Pro, now that it works so well! We still have some issues with Windows 7 compatibility  with older peripherals and software. Just last week I tried to connect Josie's new Win 7 laptop to her Xerox Phaser at school and it looks like they're not compatible, even with the new Xerox printer downloads.

Of course, get a new printer and get in the Cloud and you won't have to worry about your operating system or Internet access device, formerly known as computer.

Visit On-Site Technical Solutions for information on how you can move to Google Apps or other Cloud Computing applications. We can also help you with your mobile computing. You should follow us on Twitter  @MHBoys and become a fan on Facebook! Call or text me at 1-949-212-2168.

 

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10 reasons why Windows XP will be around a while

Here's another 10 Things list from Tech Rebpublic

10 reasons why Windows XP will be around a while

With the Windows 7 launch on October 22 it looks like On-Site Technical Solutions managed to get through the Vista era without deploying that OS. All of our customers are still running Windows XP Pro and many of them will be for a while. A handful of customers bought PCs without our help and ended up with Vista, but I think we downgraded ALL of them to Windows XP. We never really got Vista to work in the business environment. We don't plan to roll out Windows 7 until SP 1 (or we get it to work seamlessly in our environment since we'll be using it) despite the great reviews it's getting - force of habit from 25+ years in the business!

The fact that Microsoft will continue to sell and update Windows XP Pro are probably the leading indicators that the software will be around for a while. Plus the fact that the deep recession isn't giving businesses any reasons to spend money unless they simply must, and Windows 7 doesn't really provide that for most of our customers.

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Time to Start Seriously Thinking About Windows 7

Here at On-Site Technical Solutions we're still selling PCs with Windows XP Pro as the operating system. It looks like we're going to be able to bypass Windows Vista for our customers.

But ready or not, now that the Windows 7 launch is next month businesses will have to start thinking about migrating from Windows XP Pro to Windows 7. We really don't have another operating system ready to run on a business desktop yet.

Here is the Microsoft Windows 7 comparison page for pre-orders Compare Editions and here is the page listing options for Licensing Enterprise Desktop Solutions for your organization

Here is the Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor for you brave souls that will be upgrading to Windows 7 on your own. That page also includes a link for System Requirements.

Here are a couple of other links, the first at InformationWeek on the upgrade process; How To Upgrade To Windows 7 From Windows XP. But Randall Kennedy at InfoWorld is not happy at all with the Windows upgrade process at Windows 7 upgrades: Why so slow?

We'll definitely be posting more on this as the Microsoft world turns!

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