What is the next to inherit windows XP classic

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Microsoft is ending Windows XP support on April 8, and earlier articles on TechRepublic showed that quite a few companies hadn't made solid plans about how to handle the change from this OS.

 

Tech Pro Research is conducting a survey to find out what companies plan to do as a result of the change. Will you take the opportunity to move on to non-Windows 7 Professional Product Key? Or will you opt for Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 Professional Product Key ? Will there be fewer desktop PCs in the post-XP world? 

 

Please take our survey and let us know more about your plans for post-Windows 8.1 Professional Product Key support from Microsoft. If you'd like a free copy of the research report, normally available only to Tech Pro Research subscribers, you'll have the option of entering your email address at the end of the survey.

 

Depending... always depending... but a great transition and huge step forward (in OS power and reliability, cost and future growth) from Windows 8.1 Professional Product Key into a machine with great ability, flexibility and scalability using open-source office-apps is the Apple Mac Mini, also benefitting by disconnecting the monitor, keyboard and mouse from the PC and just plugging them into the Mac Mini.  Cool, cost-saving swapping, indeed.

Cautions in going from XP to Windows 8.1 Professional Product Key: If you don't install anti-virus and anti-malware on your Windows 8.1 Professional Product Key machine first thing after you plug everything together and start it up, and if you next then do not run both apps before you ask the machine to search for any installed system, app or bloatware program updates... you'll be sooooorrrrryyyyy.

The learning curve is minimal going from MS to MAC; it's pretty much a nightmare going from XP to Windows 7 Professional Product Key or 8.1.  For example, going to MAC you will NOT have to Google "How do I shut down a Windows 8.1 Professional Product Key machine?" (No joke; check out the question.  The answer, by the way is: You have to install the Windows 8.1 Professional Product Key upgrade to get away from Windows 7 Professional Product Key in order to get back to an XP-type of simple shut-down.  Sound unbelievable?  Remember, Office 2010 Professional Plus Product Key comes from Microsoft.)

Here's a simple way to validate what your or your client's employees would like to see happen in a transition from Windows 8.1 Professional Product Key.  Among several considerations, explore via a memo the idea of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) or BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology), in which employees are given the option to bring and use their own mobile or laptop devices to connect to corporate IT network systems and data.  When we explored what employees of one of the three largest US banks were using at their office and at home without a BYOT in place, the bank furnished 100% desktop and laptop Microsoft Windows opsys PCs from a single national vendor/manufacturer.  For their personal, home and educational uses, however, almost 90% of those same employees surveyed used -- and bought at their own, unreimbursed expense -- MACs and other Apple or Droid devices.  

As they discussed their PC use at their desk, they continued to apologize, "I'm sorry, this thing is running so slowly again today.  I wish I could bring my Apple to work."

I work and live in a relatively financially depressed area of the south-west U.S., and my customers generally try to keep their PC's and laptops longer than most... 7-8 years and more. The loss of support for Windows 8.1 Professional Product Key is finally becoming a reality, and I have several older machines here to demo Mint-Linux and a few others, and how they can keep their current hardware, and switch to a system that operates very similar to Windows 7 Professional Product Key, and yet has a host of great features that XP never could, not to mention the fact that Linux is (almost) virus-free. At least 95% of the applications that people used in Windows 8.1 Professional Product Key are available in similar packages for Linux, and for office applications, there's Libre Office 2010 Professional Plus Product Key or Apache Open Office, which easily read & edit M$ documents up to Office 2010 Professional Plus Product Key . Pidgin handles most IM apps like Aim, Yahoo Messenger, etc. and generally Video4Linux can handle the go-between for most video chat extensions

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