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Old 06-12-2012, 11:13 AM
spdrun spdrun is offline
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Originally Posted by MTI View Post
XP Pro SP3 still exists in business primarily due to legacy networks in large organizations. For the same reason, most of those XP bases also use very old versions of IE.
I can say that BOTH XP SP3 and 7 are very stable if managed correctly. And both are great systems.

There's another reason why XP is common in business ... a lot of legacy software won't run in 7, and XP Compatibility Mode is more work for I.T. to set up than just using XP.
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