Win 7 Question
My computer is running Win7 and I have some software and hardware that is Win7 only. All I am getting told is the only option is to upgrade hardware and software to the tune of about $25K! I know a...
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AllegroD wrote:
What software do you think won't work on Win10? Yes there are some but research is needed to determine what you need to do. Can you contact the software company for each and see if there are updates for Win10? Is there an upgrade price? Is there a newer, Win10 compatible version. $25k is way too much, unless you have some really special software.
Obviously, you really do not work with Industrial equipment with embedded PCs to run the equipment.
For instance, we have a robot system which was built around very specific and proprietary ISA bus cards which my company owns the design and rights to. Unfortunately the chips that the board takes are no longer manufactured. That control PC runs on DOS.
To move into the Windows 7 environment the engineers had to completely redesign the control cabinet with new technology. This change took 2 yrs to develop, cost to the customer just for the controller cabinet is north of $100,000 and that does not include cost of the massive changes to the robot cabling, scanners, our server software and replacing servers, external workstations, upgrading the databases and so on.
That single little change that you feel is nothing in the end can cost our customers $200,000..
There are many more examples like your common ATM machines that are still running XP and Win7, Yeah, you are not going to just "upgrade" those without massive costs in new hardware.
On top of this, MS and their wise "wisdom" decided to randomly NOT SUPPORT specific Hardware like processors, Chipsets (yeah, the thing that handles integrated Video, USB ports and much more).. Many industrial PCs are affected by this..
For instance, we use an Industrial HP PC for other purposes which is designed for POS cash drawer applications (we do not need the cashdrawer ports).. Models RP 5700, RP5800 chipsets ARE NOT supported by Win10 or HP, no drivers exist to make Win10 recognize the chipset and hence the USB ports do not work and the integrated video only works using the basic Windows drivers (poor quality video).
We have THOUSANDS of RP5700 and RP 5800 PCs floating out in customer sites that the only way to move to Win10 is complete replacement..
Model RP5810, IS supported by Win10..
Yeah, I also have a new co-worker in training who claims to have 15 yrs IT experience and like you, is nieve in thinking that he to can make everything work with Win10.. So far, he HAS failed miserably in his attempts.. Got to give him points for being obsessive and persistent when told by someone with experience that it will not work..
