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November 10th, 2009

TR Dojo: Five reasons why Windows 7 XP Mode will encourage upgrades

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 2:05 am

Categories: General, Microsoft, Windows 7

Tags: Larry Dignan

Bill Detwiler explains what XP mode is and shares five reasons why it may encourage XP hold outs to upgrade. Once you’ve watched this TR Dojo video, you can find a link to the original TechRepublic article and print the tip from our TR Dojo Blog.

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  • Most Recent of 9 Talkback(s)
True that, the only use i have seen for it...
is running old 32 bit apps (that used to run on 32 bit XP) on a new 64 bit win 7 install. I have to run cisco's VPN client through the mode, along with some other of my company's smaller vendor apps

other than that, everything i ran on XP loaded fine on 7... (Read the rest)
Posted by: shaddup Posted on: 11/10/09 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
In all honesty though . . .  CobraA1 | 11/10/09
True that, the only use i have seen for it...  shaddup | 11/10/09
It's the UI now more than anything else  Takalok | 11/10/09
I agree.  bjbrock | 11/10/09
Two reasons why it won't  Michael Kelly | 11/10/09
Conversations around the water cooler  Captiosus | 11/10/09
I still have to find an application incompatible with Vista  directory | 11/10/09
Incompatible applications  robert_rowe@... | 11/10/09
Incompatible Apps  Net-Tech_z | 11/10/09

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