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The NT line started in with NT 3. Why would this amount to 'death'? If I had, for an example, a LabView system on my bench that ran on Windows XP, it wouldn't need to 'die' because it isn't networked to any other systems.

There are lots of pieces of test equipment that embed various versions of Windows in them. At a previous job we had Unholtz-Dicke shaker tables.

One had a Windows XP host, the other had a Windows host. They worked fine. They will continue to work fine. We have an Intravascular Ultrasound machine that we bought new in We were looking to replace it next year because, according to the vendor, it runs Windows 98 and it doesn't have an interface for our reporting systems.

An interface is required for use with our electronic medical record. Up until now we used it without any interface with any of our systems. The only output it gave besides it's screen was that it would burn CDs and had a dedicated thermal printer for 3x5" still images. This is a cool challenge. I've worked in medical diagnostics as a sysop in the 90s. One of my many tasks was networking live diagnostic machines, including DOS, 95, and 98 based. I have many ideas but I'm not sure of the FDA or whatever regulations about making changes.

And the first thing would be to "image" the hard disk, if you have admin access The system works perfectly fine. There's no way anyone would think of giving approval for non-vendor software on the system. So we'll dump it and get a new box, probably by the end of the year. Hopefully the next one will last more than 10 years, but I'm skeptical. Commodore 64 had at least three different versions of its underlying ROM, and upgrades were a thing.

It was a whole different ball of wax back then, but they existed. Are you overwriting the bios? Then it's not fucking bricked. Being XP era you could probably remove the eeprom and flash it yourself. Linux ruined scroll bars. Clicking in the blank area no longer advances a single page. Now it moves that far down so when you have a page pdf it makes scrolling one page at a time annoying. Also they copied the Windows collapsible design and keep making the grey colors closer and closer.

Soon the bar and the background will be the same color and invisible. Linux is a completely viable desktop. And I've never understood the "famous cigarettes" BS. Being the most popular is something important for fans of Kim Kardashian, it shouldn't be a metric for computer users. So they're configured in a terrible state by default then. I've been using Linux since Your reply shows why Linux will never be a viable desktop OS.

Technology never dies, as long as someone is using it. However a Dead technology means there is no more support or new products from its licensed company. We still have MS Dos 3. There are still people making games for legacy systems such as the Commodore Meanwhile, the oldest Linux kernel still supported is 3.

It won't even get to 6 years before being abandoned. And what is the oldest XP actually supported; Service Pack 3 - release - so 9 years.

Not all the different really. Next question is SP3 really even supported or would support just tell you to apply various KBs to a theoretically supported system until it was at the patch level they actually support? Almost assuredly the vast majority of users of Linux OS cannot and do not ever maintain the kernel and are not capable of doing so. What good are sticks and dry grass if one doesn't know how to employ them to make fire? Just because you CAN make fire doesn't mean the person who needs it knows how and in many cases they may not fucking care how to make it.

They just want to be warm. That is what a lot of open source advocates can't seem to grasp. Most people only do a few things themselves, the question is whether you have a choice of venue. They don't repair their own car, but they care if they can take it to a third party mechanic or if you need first party service and first party parts and it runs on first party gas.

There's a helluva lot of people in the server space that has figured this out. I'd love to hear the thought process behind this one, considering that Ubuntu seems to be the only commercial Linux manufacturer actually invested in supporting the desktop releases. I challenge you to upgrade from 2. You'll be begging for a windows 10 upgrade screen by the time you have a bash prompt and realised nothing else is working.

United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Reboot the system. Sometimes even longer than that.

When MU takes ages to find anything, stop it, install by hand the Office Comparability Pack and all Office updates they usually don't require rebooting , then the latest IE8 update, then reboot.

After that, MU will find all remaining relevant updates fast. But please promise to come back here and slowly and carefully read every page of this thread and take notes because there'll be a test later and it's only pages at this point. I've been using it since March , with no adverse effects. It may or may not solve the described issue, but it won't hurt to try, right? It installs winlogon.

It's digitally signed by MS on Fri, Sep 06, 4 years old, as I said and exists in many or maybe all language versions. Dave-H : That's a classic one! If your machine has a winlogon. I've never again got a "ca" error after installing it. Moreover, MDGx's yes he's alive! I haven't identified any other which is a true must, besides those.

YMMV, of course! The list above includes just three on-demand hotfixes: KB -v3 contains the latest usbohci. There are also newer Intel chipsets which use neither USB1. Good suggestion! I agree that one is a useful addition to my shortlist of must-have hotfixes above. A tip for the on-demand hotfixes that are no longer findable, directly paste the following link in the address bar and insert the required KB number.

It's been some time since we talked about this, and today I remembered another hotfix I always use and ought to recommend: KB It's from way back when, but it still carries the latest hal. The KB article is gone, but the hotfix remains available by request from MS. I've later found out that there are even newer hal. Long live, XP! The Root Certificates and Revoked Certificates thread ;.