[ale] End of XP

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And crossover office has a success matrix for various applications. 

Geoffrey Myers

> On Mar 21, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Greg
> 
> Zorin is good replacement especially with Wine and PlayOnLinux installed. It is Ubuntu based so it has plenty of packages in the repository.
> 
> An alternate is Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop. It seems to be fairly close to Windows XP/7 that most Windows users can easily make the transition.
> 
> I do not if the accounting software will run well with Wine but I would try it. If it does not, the commercial version of Wine (Crossover from CodeWeavers) might do better. Even if they had to purchase a copy of the commercial version for $60.00 it will be cheaper overall. I did not find Business Vision listed on CodeWeavers.
> 
> Jay
>> On 03/21/2014 12:29 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:
>> OK, so M$ puts a steak in the heart of XP next month.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, my office and most of our customers are still running Win XP, through Win 7 downgrade option.
>> 
>> So, I am looking at options. I saw an article on Zorin OS the other day as a look alike and pretty much work alike replacement for XP with Wine and PlayOnLinux built in. Maybe I could use this to "wean" the boss off of Windows.
>> 
>> No need to flame on M$, I just looking for suggestions on a safe/easy transition out the Windows world that can run on 5 year old hardware. Any other suggestions for a platform move that could still run Windows apps (mostly Business Vision accounting software) under Linux, hopefully with minimal disruption?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Greg Clifton
>> 
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