Originally Posted by
Phil Thien
Keep XP, get Firefox, and use Thuderbird for E-Mail. Pretty good setup.
I agree!
I've used Firefox and Thunderbird for years. Actually, I now use Waterfox which is the 64bit version of FF. Heard about the Pale Moon version here a few weeks back, but haven't had time to play with it with the new job.
I just retired my wife's XP machine. Still hearing about the "problems" with the programs that need to be replaced to work on 7. Actually only 2, Word and Quick Books. I have both working in a XP virtual environment in Win 7, and she is dealing with it. Just don't need to spend 300 bucks on software right now if I can find a free way to make it work. I will probably resurrect the XP machine to use in the shop as a music source. Easy enough to transfer via USB drives and keep it off the net. If need be, I can get it on the net with a wireless antenna to the main system, but doubt that would be necessary.
So I now have all 3 main computers on Win 7 Pro 64 (2 desk tops, 1 laptop). There is a Win 2k system in LOML's music studio annex, but it hasn't been turned on in probably 2 years. It has some music game programs that wouldn't run on XP!!!
And I'm on Win 8 at work......I hate it! Took me 2 weeks to figure out how to get into the
device manager screen so I could fix the audio that didn't work!! Win 7 was not big deal changing from Win 2K for me. Just seemed to be a natural progression. Jim.
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