The death of support for XP - How do I Move Forward

[znelbok]

Thanks, but the small form factor PC is the issue, not the serial ports. I already have an 8 port card installed, but its not W7, just XP. Does the job perfectly as it is and its only because of the changes to CQC (i.e. removing XP support) that I need to change. A touchscreen probably wont be the right solution either.

Honestly, it would be great if the CQC servers still supported XP (all x32 kernals) and just left the requirements of W7 to the touchscreens/IV machines.

I went to an HP t510 with a touchscreen installed. It came with an HP operating interface, but it was pretty easy to get the HP win7 download installed onto it - very responsive with a small form factor - got 2 of them for around $100 each on ebay. I also have an unused Moxa 8 port serial to USB that I bet could be installed on a small form factor pc, and you can have it. Not sure how much it would cost to get it to your part of the world, but I have a guy working for me that lives in Australia that rotates every 28 days here. He is leaving tomorrow back to the UK so if you are interested, let me know. He lives in Perth.

[SomeWhatLost]

you know, if you think about it, dropping support for the currently 2nd most popular (by a fairly large %) and in use OS does seem a bit odd...
Market Share of Windows 7 Windows 7 58.04%
Market Share of Windows XP Windows XP 16.94%
Market Share of Windows 8.1 Windows 8.1 10.55%
Market Share of Windows 8 Windows 8 3.52
Market Share of Windows Vista Windows Vista 1.97%

if anything, drop support for win 8 or Vista as no one is using them (well less than 5%) and keep XP (almost 17%)

just got those stats from here http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-...pcustomd=0 so if any one felt like saying [citation required] there ya go...

[rtarver]

I have a few 4 port Quatechs that I bought when I found a good buy on them. I'd be willing to part with one of them for postage only from Texas. If I have a power supply, I'll throw that in a box too, but if not I'm sure you can find one locally for a few bucks.

[Dean Roddey]

you know, if you think about it, dropping support for the currently 2nd most popular (by a fairly large %) and in use OS does seem a bit odd...

It's ancient and we can't do a lot of things that we can do in Win7. It would be nice if we could move up even more, because so much new stuff is available post-Win7. And it's unsupported, so no more fixes for security issues and all that. It's definitely time to let it go.

[SomeWhatLost]

It's ancient and we can't do a lot of things that we can do in Win7. It would be nice if we could move up even more, because so much new stuff is available post-Win7. And it's unsupported, so no more fixes for security issues and all that. It's definitely time to let it go.

oh, I get why you did it...
but that almost 17% is just the XP boxes that go on line... if you add the local network only type boxes still running XP that never go out to the scary world wide web I would bet the market share of XP is somewhere >40%
ancient or not, that is a lot of potential PC's to just disqualify...
be nice if there was some sort of standalone CQC device server of of sorts, like just make serial ports and stuff available to the master server or something like that... ie not a full blown CQC server or anything...

of course that is one of those "it would be nice if CQC had an infinite amount of developer resources" type things...
with somewhat less than an infinite amount of developer resources, it probably doesn't make much sense...
but still, would be nice...