AVR-Chat

At 10:05 PM 26/09/2012, you wrote:
>I understand that MicroSoft is ending support for XP soon,
>but could you clarify what you mean by the "demise of win XP", please?

It will be similar to what happened when win 98 stopped being supported.
I had to upgrade my laptop to win XP as the anti-virus I was using stopped
supporting win 98. Then AVR Studio was no longer supporting win 98 etc.

I was also hoping to use win XP indefinitely but unfortunately the reality
is that you can't really work with newer tools if one sticks to older O/S.

And yes I get cranky too that I will need to eventually throw away 2 perfectly
working desktop computers which may not be able to run win 7 or the soon to be
released win 8.

Just got a new laptop on Monday running win 7 as my old laptop is not really
able to run AS6 which is required if one wants to attend Atmel's seminars in
November in Australia.

It took 2.5 hours of downloads, updates and installs before AS6 was 
ready to run.

If you are coming to the Atmel's seminars we will see each other there. :-)

Regards

John Samperi

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