You can just buy parts and build a PC and install whatever OS you want on it. It's not hard to put one together and you can easily pirate whatever OS you want to run if you don't own a key already.
This is true, but it's getting increasingly hard to run Windows 7.
I actually run a couple of Windows 2000 VMs for some legacy software at my office. No Internet, so it's not a big deal.
But for Windows 7, browsers are out of date, encryption is out of date, and many/most programs will no longer install. Quickbooks was the one that forced me to upgrade, ugh.
When was Microsoft great?
Windows 2000 and Windows 7 were both pretty great.
I agree. I miss those days. Is it possible to get PCs made using Legacy OSs? I would pay for one.
You can just buy parts and build a PC and install whatever OS you want on it. It's not hard to put one together and you can easily pirate whatever OS you want to run if you don't own a key already.
This is true, but it's getting increasingly hard to run Windows 7.
I actually run a couple of Windows 2000 VMs for some legacy software at my office. No Internet, so it's not a big deal.
But for Windows 7, browsers are out of date, encryption is out of date, and many/most programs will no longer install. Quickbooks was the one that forced me to upgrade, ugh.