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Originally Posted by Pruzhany
Most large companies I've walked in outside of the US are still using Windows XP and some are even using DOS emulators to access certain systems. I've seen some desktop computers that have the win7(or Vista) logo on the desktop case yet are running XP. Where they are putting their money is new servers and updating the speed of their infrastructure. Another place they are putting their money is offline data storage (backup) where they are creating virtual tapes on TB HDDs. In other companies I've seen pallets of computers left over from RIWFs. So they are not going to run out and get new computers, unless they have a corporate application that actually needs one.
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This is basically true. Before we went with a vendor based EHR, we programmed our own - DOS based EHR via Clipper programming. So, we used the DOS Shell for quite a bit of our records, reports, etc... likewise, we also have an inventory of computers waiting to go into service when we hire new providers - computers that we got from donations from a local college that rotates their systems out every four years. These systems all have Windows XP on them. Likewise, we have offline data storage for everybody's document folders. This system works pretty good for us.
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