how long are microsoft going to keep updating XP for?

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bryanb wrote: »

They managed with Windows ME

It had a five and a half year lifetime.

Windows Vista's Mainstream Support will end in April 2012. There's no date in the chart for when Extended Support phase will cease.

kwikbreaks

I reckon the public should operate a three strikes and you're out policy.

ME strike 1
Vista strike 2

One more complete lemon and Redmond should be nuked.

Only pure laziness stopped me from moving to Linux after expoeriencing the pure dross that was Vista. I most definately object to having to pay for the Vista fix which is all that Win 7 amounts to.

Marty_J

What is this apparent love affair some people have with Windows XP?

Good grief people, it's old. Really, really, old.

And some people are worried that it won't be supported after 2014?

It'll be 13 years old by then. Quite frankly, Microsoft would be doing everyone a favour if they flipped a switch in 2014 and stopped it from working period.

Just for reference, here's what a 13 year old OS looks like:



That was way back when computers came with 4 MB of RAM, 33 MHz processors, and hard drive sizes were measured in MBs.

isofa

I guess it's because many large corporates have only just got around from migrating from 2000 to XP, and XP in general is stable and allows all the apps required to run. It might not be cutting edge, but I use it on several systems for development, it's solid, I can't remember the last time it crashed. But an up-to-date media savvy OS it isn't and Win 7 is much better (or OS X of course)!

Still I don't do any design or photography work in it, I'd rather use Adobe apps under OS X for that, but just a preference.

MS are touting most corporates will decide to move to Win 7, but a recent Computer Weekly survey showed only a small percentage were planning on moving. (Computer Weekly are as well respected in the IT world as Private Eye is in the investigative journalism world).

Computers to me (and corporates) are about the apps we run, not the OS...

PS You can make XP look just like that above! Some prefer the quiet start bar rather than the ridiculously colour XP standard theme, with huge unsubtle close, min and max boxes and title bars...

Wack

Marty_J wrote: »

That was way back when computers came with 4 MB of RAM, 33 MHz processors, and hard drive sizes were measured in MBs.

I want one of those

JasX

Marty_J wrote: »

Just for reference, here's what a 13 year old OS looks like:



That was way back when computers came with 4 MB of RAM, 33 MHz processors, and hard drive sizes were measured in MBs.

bah, by then it'd already started to go wrong..... I miss windows 3.1

Marty_J

isofa wrote: »

I guess it's because many large corporates have only just got around from migrating from 2000 to XP, and XP in general is stable and allows all the apps required to run. It might not be cutting edge, but I use it on several systems for development, it's solid, I can't remember the last time it crashed. But an up-to-date media savvy OS it isn't and Win 7 is much better (or OS X of course)!

Still I don't do any design or photography work in it, I'd rather use Adobe apps under OS X for that, but just a preference.

MS are touting most corporates will decide to move to Win 7, but a recent Computer Weekly survey showed only a small percentage were planning on moving. (Computer Weekly are as well respected in the IT world as Private Eye is in the investigative journalism world).

Computers to me (and corporates) are about the apps we run, not the OS...

PS You can make XP look just like that above! Some prefer the quiet start bar rather than the ridiculously colour XP standard theme, with huge unsubtle close, min and max boxes and title bars...

It's ridiculous though.

Surely they have to stop using XP eventually?

Or in 10 years, is the world still going to be powered by a 20 year old OS?

Marty_J

JasX wrote: »

bah, by then it'd already started to go wrong..... I miss windows 3.1

I can still remember installing Windows 95.

I think it came on approximately 500 floppy disks.

Inactive

Marty_J wrote: »

Good grief people, it's old. Really, really, old.

And some people are worried that it won't be supported after 2014?

.

Maybe it is getting on in years, bit it works just fine, it does all that I need and it doesn't eat up computer recourses, so I will not be buying 7, I tried Vista, it was a disaster as far as I am concerned.

JasX

Marty_J wrote: »

It's ridiculous though.

Surely they have to stop using XP eventually?

Or in 10 years, is the world still going to be powered by a 20 year old OS?

Problem is legacy industrial systems running old OSs but networked... the machines they control last 20 years+, the systems happily run old monitoring programs on old slow wondows based UIs and all is fine so long as security patching is maintained....

but needing to update 'no longer supported' software for 'no longer made' machines to a new OS is a nightmare