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As someone stuck supporting a Windows XP server, I know we lost the war. We raised a big white flag and rolled out a welcome mat for our new overlords. Still
by rprospero 13y ago
As someone stuck supporting a Windows XP server, I know we lost the war. We raised a big white flag and rolled out a welcome mat for our new overlords. Still waiting for someone to show up, though.
(To break the metaphor, our server is hooked up to a PCI-X card which runs a radiation sensor. The drivers for the card will not run under anything after XP. The vendor has discussed possibly considering looking into designing a new card that would might run under Vista, but that's probably five years down the road.)
- derekp7 13y agoSounds like you need a new vendor? As an alternative, could you run XP in a minimum VM, which has that particular PCI card's address passed directly to the VM? Then make sure that there is no other way into the XP VM (i.e., don't run any other apps on it, and keep it only on the host-only network).
- keithpeter 13y agoXP Embedded? Still has support.
- HeyLaughingBoy 13y agoNot for long. XPe is already at EOL. Support ends in 2016 and license availability ends in 2017. Our products using XP Embedded are expected to still be in the field well past 2020. We are already making plans to transition to Windows 8 simply because it will soon be impossible to buy XPe licenses.