Explaining to customers why it is important to upgrade Windows OS at EOL cycle

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People couldn't freaking wait to get away from windows 98 and no one can blame them.

Edit: and im surprised this thread is still being posted on. it should be childs play to convince a company buying multiple new computers to upgrade OS. I mean the ram limits alone on 32bit windows xp is enough to make me want to cringe when i think about how bad programmers are getting which is causing applications to use way more memory than needed.

I don't recall that at all. Windows 98 worked very well for its time.

And recently so many 64 bit systems have been sold with 4 or fewer gb ram that many (if not most) users haven't seen the benefit anyway.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

I don't recall that at all. Windows 98 worked very well for its time.

And recently so many 64 bit systems have been sold with 4 or fewer gb ram that many (if not most) users haven't seen the benefit anyway.

Compared to NT/2k/XP etc etc the memory management was horrible.

 

[Tony_Scarpelli]

Compared to NT/2k/XP etc etc the memory management was horrible.

Win95 you had to reboot before you started to diagnose it to see if there really was a problem. It had a bad habit of not completing the virtual files cycle and left open files which caused all manner of hiccups.

We were so excited to have Win95 that it was worth the trouble and when Win98 2nd edition came out we couldn't imagine ever needing anything else.

Most of the memory issues of the day were not Windows or Microsoft issues but poor programming skills of applications made for the platform.

It is easy to point at Windows or Microsoft and they have their problems too but it gets tiresome to keep blaming the same players at rote.
At best it is an over simplification of the truth.

 

[carlitos31]

some people just love XP

I think that out of the repairs shops in my area that sell new/used computers. I am the only one left that sell XP machines

There seem to be industrial machines in businesses the area that only interact with XP, and they do have windows 7 machines for the front office duties but must have XP for the shop machines.

In the last 3-4 months I have noticed that for every 20 machines i sell, an average of 15 units is an XP machine ( mostly dell optiplex, either 620, 745, or 755), which are core 2 duos and I sell those with 4 gb ram. ( the 755 can handle 64 bit OS and up to 8 gb ram, so they could easily be upgraded as fas the OS goes)

Also lately, half of the buyers are not my usual clients, but people that were turned down by other shops, that did their best to sell them windows 7 or 8 machines.

OP, if you don't want to sell them what they want, they will move on to someone that will, why let customers go to the competition?