XP no longer for sale after June 30.
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HI,
Gee, I hate to tell you guy's this but it is the nature of the game. OS's have a life cycle. If you refuse to move on it is your decision but a bad one in my view. Get used to it. The software world will not change just because you don't like it. Besides Vista is better.
I have a very sharp friend who refuses to move past Windows '98. He hates the MS scrutiny imposed on the later OS's. I think he has a point but it's not enough for me to become stagnant. A computer is a tool and nothing more. Like a pair of pliers. I want the best, most versitile, most advanced, highest performing, and most up to date tool available. It is not a romantic relationship.
Sparky
Gee, I hate to tell you guy's this but it is the nature of the game. OS's have a life cycle. If you refuse to move on it is your decision but a bad one in my view. Get used to it. The software world will not change just because you don't like it. Besides Vista is better.
I have a very sharp friend who refuses to move past Windows '98. He hates the MS scrutiny imposed on the later OS's. I think he has a point but it's not enough for me to become stagnant. A computer is a tool and nothing more. Like a pair of pliers. I want the best, most versitile, most advanced, highest performing, and most up to date tool available. It is not a romantic relationship.
Sparky
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cohen
New Member
ok - i see
OK i see but still they should at least keep XP going maybe when they bring out another OS after it maybe but still they should keep it because a lot of people are having faults with windows vista so they end up going back to XP...
OK i see but still they should at least keep XP going maybe when they bring out another OS after it maybe but still they should keep it because a lot of people are having faults with windows vista so they end up going back to XP...
Tuffie
Active Member
I think your wrong my friend.
All these people would disagree:
http://www.moreforme.co.uk/media/login/hug.jpg
http://www.2assist.co.nz/picts/huggingComputer.jpg
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thu...ina_student_hugging_computer_on_escalator.jpg
http://www.mothersfromhell2.org/armsaroundcomputer.jpg
Tuffie.
G25r8cer
Active Member
I Agree
*ding* Get a partition and send it to microsoft saying keep xp
I think you mean a petition!! XP is old anyways!! Vista is the future!!
Geoff
VIP Member
+1
Everyone is so used to the initial release of Vista where there were several driver and program incompatibilities. Now though with SP1, almost all if not all manufacturers have drivers available for Vista, almost all new and older programs will work with it as well. The most annoying thing is the UAC, however that can easily be disabled.
Once you get used to it, Vista is a great OS. I won't go back to XP.
patrickv
Active Member
I agree, me being amongst the lot.
You will probably find this funny but now we're in 2008 and some gov offices in my country are still using Dell optiplex gx100 with win98.
I'm talking about this
maybe whoever is in charge of IT will migrate them to Xp or directly to Vista.I In any case i will keep on using Xp for a very long time
cohen
New Member
HI,
In spite of my opinion that I stated above about moving on to newer OS's like Vista, I still own two laptops that run XP Pro. They will remain XP machines. It would be silly for me to change them to Vista since they run XP so well.
I was a very early XP user. I started a few months before SP-1 was released. So, XP is really home for me. But, I like Vista very much. I did not know this when I built my new computer and decided to install Vista. It was a risk. Now, I'm glad I did.
Please don't misunderstand me. I really like XP. It's a great OS. But purchasing a new XP is not an issue for me; it won't happen again. However, I certainly will miss MS support for XP when that comes about. I assume the 3rd party software companies will continue to support XP for a long time since there will be a large customer base. But it will gradually dwindle and so will the software. All of my new application software will definitely be Vista (and XP) compatible.
Sparky
In spite of my opinion that I stated above about moving on to newer OS's like Vista, I still own two laptops that run XP Pro. They will remain XP machines. It would be silly for me to change them to Vista since they run XP so well.
I was a very early XP user. I started a few months before SP-1 was released. So, XP is really home for me. But, I like Vista very much. I did not know this when I built my new computer and decided to install Vista. It was a risk. Now, I'm glad I did.
Please don't misunderstand me. I really like XP. It's a great OS. But purchasing a new XP is not an issue for me; it won't happen again. However, I certainly will miss MS support for XP when that comes about. I assume the 3rd party software companies will continue to support XP for a long time since there will be a large customer base. But it will gradually dwindle and so will the software. All of my new application software will definitely be Vista (and XP) compatible.
Sparky
I would have got Vista but the program I wanted to run only supported XP
HI Beast,
Yeah, I had a couple of programs that would not run on Vista. One I never got to run so I use it on my laptop on XP. It is a programming language to custom program my Pronto touch screen remote control. I called Philips about the problem and they said, since my remote control is obsolete, they have cut off support for the software. Bummer, but I won't lose sleep over it since there is a work around.
The other one, the most important one (of course) I was able to get to run on Vista using the XP Compatability Mode. As suggested by the software publisher, I had to install using the XP Compatability Mode and even create the desk top short cut in Campatability mode. When it starts it resets my monitor resolution to 600 X 800 and the color depth to 8 bits. Since this a high resolution topographic mapping program it looks absolutely terrible. But I can fix the display problems by simply readjusting the display properties in the Control Panel. But the next time I run the program it does the same thing. No way around it.
So, all in all, my Vista conversion was not too painful (other than having to download a bunch of drivers).
Sparky
Vizy
New Member
We all need it.
I for one, am cool with oth of them. i have Xp on this comp, and Vista on my dads. to me vista loads up quicker and stuff and it looks elegant. I will probaly stick with XP because of the $$$ problem.
Tuffie
Active Member
I agree, me being amongst the lot.
You will probably find this funny but now we're in 2008 and some gov offices in my country are still using Dell optiplex gx100 with win98.
I'm talking about this
maybe whoever is in charge of IT will migrate them to Xp or directly to Vista.I In any case i will keep on using Xp for a very long time
Maybe they should just type "kill" into console.
Hahaha.
lol
Tuffie.
The_Beast
New Member
OvenMaster
VIP Member
Bzzt! Wrong!
XP Home and Professional will have "extended" support (=security fixes) until 8 April 2014:
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-us&x=10&y=13&p1=3221
http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=3223