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WINDOWS 7 THREAD (ongoing)
f0dder:
I've never seen an accounting app that needed much from the GPU, so I doubt that will be a concern.-Stoic Joker (April 28, 2009, 10:33 PM)
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Funny that something as simple (OS features used, not business logic) as an accounting application can be written so crappily that it doesn't work across the whole Win95 -> Win7 range :)
Stoic Joker:
I've never seen an accounting app that needed much from the GPU, so I doubt that will be a concern.-Stoic Joker (April 28, 2009, 10:33 PM)
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Funny that something as simple (OS features used, not business logic) as an accounting application can be written so crappily that it doesn't work across the whole Win95 -> Win7 range :)
-f0dder (April 29, 2009, 06:25 AM)
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True, I suspect it has much to do with tendancy towards rushing to vertical markets for big $$$ in the hopes that "X" will be the only kid on the block for that nitch. Company "X" invests with the lowest bidder that uses a RAD OOP rig and didn't laugh at the insainly tight deadline.
...and we the poor bastards in support/administration have to suffer because of it.
Josh:
Windows 7 RC has been released to MSDN and Technet today.
f0dder:
Windows 7 RC has been released to MSDN and Technet today.
-Josh (April 30, 2009, 12:48 PM)
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See here for more information :)
Carol Haynes:
XP mode is dead as a dodo!
It requires Hyper-V enabled CPUs to run!
If businesses are reluctant to upgrade from XP how many of them are going to have Hyper-V enabled systems throughout the organisation???
None of my systems have Hyper-V enabled CPUs (a mixture of AMD Athlon64 single and dual chips, and Intel dual core) so I can't even test it.
The stupid thing is that VirtualPC worked fine (albeit as a crappy VM option) on all of my systems - now they are updating it to make it pointless for most people. What is even worse is that it isntalled without a squeak - it is only when you actually want to use the f****g thing that it tells you to b******r off.
What's the betting it is to do with security!!
So the answer is don't get excited about XP mode in Windows 7 it is likely to be a damp squib at best but more likely to be the ulitmate option to REALLY piss off business customers who thought MS might finally have take the hint over application compatibility.
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