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Originally Posted by R Bedell
The office she works at went from XP to WIN7 just within the last 18 months. She found it odd that their PC's only being 18 months old, were now not good enough.
I am no expert in the HIPA arena, but it sounded like a Sales Pitch to sell some new equipment. That is why I posted here. Seems there are some well experienced IT guys here.
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I believe 2016 was the last year windows 7 pc's were available. Her office may have even purchased the pc's with windows 10 with option to use windows 7 instead.
It's not really a sales pitch, as windows 10 was free, and probably still is. Especially if the pc's are only 18 months old, their hardware should be fine for windows 10.
1/2 of the pc's where i work run windows 7, 1/2 windows 10. The windows 10 pc's replaced 9 year old XP machines. I recently had to install windows 7 onto a new hard drive to replace one that had died. While installing windows 7 i was asked if i wanted to install windows 10 instead. Our windows 7 pc's are 7 years old, back then you got OS reinstall discs with your pc when purchased. I used the disc to reinstall windows 7. So if the dr's office has discs, they could reconfig those Pc's to windows 10. Another option is downloading windows 10 from microsoft, then try installing it on one of the pc's, using the windows 7 product key. I have not tried this myself, but i think it would work. Her office would have to test a PC.