But do you think the author is correct that a lot of people who were willing to upgrade to a new operating system in the past will now not be willing to do so if it means replacing their

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 01:40 PM, Gene wrote: Do you think Microsoft will make it considerably less restrictive to run Windows eleven as the deadline approaches?- I absolutely do not. If anything, I

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 01:48 PM, Gene wrote: But the way 32 bit programs work- Is that they work. There's not much of a trick to "padding with zeros" to get to the correct word length. 16-bit

True, and anyway there will be others making it. Pluss with microsoft getting github its more thhan likely it will either dump it to someone else but still include it as a universal app

well they still sell systems especially business with win10 or 11 your choice. However at least in the shop I use, pbtech there are a few 10th gen intels and 4th gen amds about and a

But the way 32 bit programs work now in newer versions of Windows is that Windows has its own emulator for 32 bit programs. While Microsoft might drop it at some point, I don't think it will

If anything else I'd imagine that as well as some software for access we will be expanding into the web space and a lot of things are online though we will keep some of the older systems,

I could see us loosing 32 bit at some stage which will mean a lot of older stuff won't work. Of course its really not a problem keeping duel for various things as it effects everything

That clarifies things. At first, I thought the hardware break might mean that many programs might no longer run but it is actually about requirements to run Windows. I came across an

I doubt that any of this will happen really. There is a push for the universal usb 3.2 standard and a few other things like that. But win10 and 11 are just the same guts with the shells

Well my university was like that so a lot of virtual machines. However my brother who works for a large engineering firm says that while they try to keep updated vms are a daily staple for old

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 01:17 PM, Gene wrote: What is the importance of the hardware break?- I don't really know how to answer this. Microsoft announced that Windows 11 would only run on machines with

What is the importance of the hardware break? Gene On 10/26/2022 11:18 AM, Brian Vogel wrote:

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 12:11 PM, Gene wrote: I consider future proofing a bad idea because by the time you get to the future where it matters, you can get a lot more power for a lot less money than

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 12:08 PM, Gene wrote: Does that mean that after Windows 10 goes out of support, hardware will start to change, thus making a lot of programs no longer run that have run going

On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 11:49 AM, Gene wrote: What I meant to ask, if I didn't do so clearly, was whether you need different versions of browsers for different versions of Windows.- And as was

Also, are there implications for people who try to future proof their computers by spending much more for power and capacity, if that is the right word, than is currently necessary? I consider

Does that mean that after Windows 10 goes out of support, hardware will start to change, thus making a lot of programs no longer run that have run going back for many versions of Windows? I

Certainly you can't separate keeping compatible from money and resources. What I meant to ask, if I didn't do so clearly, was whether you need different versions of browsers for different

I personally think it's a bit of both. On the one hand, you don't want to support older software, I would not. On the other hand, you don't want to spend time writing and rewriting old bloated code