13 Oct
2012
13 Oct
'12
6:09 p.m.
On 10/13/2012 1:45 PM, TeoZ wrote:
My accountant has been threatened for two years to upgrade to Windows 7,
or he will be denied support for Quickbooks and most of the tax prep
programs. I suspect many other people who use packages for mechanical
engineering, and other professionals are forced into upgrades. Unlike
us, a lot of people are not that capable of going and getting an "oem"
or "system builder" copy of windows 7 w/o spending a fortune needlessly
and assessing the capability of even a system like the ones described
and getting it upgraded on the same hardware.
I've got my friend accountant on vmware and he runs both win7 and win/xp
jim
> My livelihood is not impaired by using an 8
year old machine and if
> they
> stop to think, neither is most people's.
Plenty of rich professionals ditch machines if they are no longer
under warrenty (especially if they cannot service them or don't want to).