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To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (80382)	12/19/2012 12:03:08 PM
From: Jerry Held	Respond to of 110653

I wish I had never gotten away from XP in some ways but there are so many bandaids, ie, updates on it that I figured it was just a matter of time before it bled to death. Although I like Win 7, it appears to be on the same path. I once had one update (Win 7) take 38 hours to install. I wanted to power the pc down but a computer wiz bang buddy of mine said to let it go until it finished if the computer wasn't critically needed at that point. Apparently powering down during a slow updating process is something to avoid at all costs. All is good now, but I wouldn't want to go through that again.

To: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) who wrote (80382)	12/19/2012 12:21:09 PM
From: Raptech	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

For some time now I have been contemplating the impact of MS ceasing support for XP in 2014. XP is prevalent everywhere I look; the majority of my clients and almost all of their business contacts, doctors offices, retailers, etc. With a continuing uncertain economy most do not want to make the major investment required to upgrade to Win 7, much less Win 8. What percentage of MS operating systems are still using XP. Will MS extend the deadline, or will they ignore what will probably remain to be about 40% of their users in 2014.