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Re: who else is still on XP - and I mean a LOT of XP

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I'm in a hospital with a pretty awesome infrastructure environment ... Lots of HA, clustered servers, and we keep moving to newer servers as they come out -- AD on 2008R2, going to 2012, Exchange 2010, looking at 2013, SCOM 2007, going to 2012.

We have ~4,000 desktops & 500 laptops mostly running XP. Our hands are tied by the 3rd-party vendors that are providing most of the hospital's apps -- we have some apps running on SQL Server 2000 still (and some on 2012). After extensive testing, we've uncovered a few apps that either don't run on Win7/IE8 or (more importantly) aren't supported by the vendor on Win7 or IE8. Clinical apps are life & death critical, so vendor support is paramount.

That said, we also have a large Citrix deployment, so we can move ahead with Windows 7 & IE8, back-filling with Citrix-based applications on XP or IE7. The initial upgrade will be to move everyone to IE8 in preparation for one of the major apps being upgraded to a version that supports IE8. Windows 7 is being made available to anyone who doesn't need any app not supported on Win7 -- we have lots of users who are essentially Office users. We've been on Outlook 2010 for 2 years, while running Office 2003, and deploying 2007 and 2010. The Office upgrade outcry came from (i) ribbon vs. menu bar, and (ii) users with Access 2000 and 2003 databases. Most users now have PCs at home that are running at least Windows 7, so the education part is no longer as crucial with a lot of people, but still very necessary - no getting around that.


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