On 13/08/2012 07:44 PM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 13/08/2012 18:22, Orchid Win7 v1 nous fit lire :
>>>
>>> Is there actually a version of Windows out there that does not come with
>>> the .NET libraries out-of-the-box? (I mean newer than 10 years.)
>>
>> How about "the version that ALL of our production systems and every
>> customer-facing system in every commercial setting I've ever seen uses"?
>> You know, *that* version. :-P
>
> Yep. You have the sames as me. 2000&  XP. Now only XP. Everywhere. Some
> SP3, not all...

Actually, I've never seen Windows 2000 used anywhere, ever. Not in 
people's homes, not in places of work. Indeed, if it weren't for that 
course my employer sent me on, I wouldn't even know it /exists/... It 
never seemed to be really popular.

> At least itanium is dead (or might... Oracle has been ordered to
> continue software support, for HP...), so Windows on itanium is dead.

It's a shame, really. AMD64 has /way/ too much old backwards 
compatibility cruft in it. In fact, the same could be said for the 
entire IBM PC-compatible platform. (Flip address line 20 to enable 
protected-mode? WTF is *that* about??)

> Vista, 7, 8... who cares, XP runs!

Well, if all you need the OS to do is run your EPOS system, you probably 
don't give a **** about Aero, video authoring, DirectX 11, PC sync, or 
the bazillion and one new features in those newer OSes.

I still see commercial systems running MS-DOS, FFS! o_O

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