how long are microsoft going to keep updating XP for?

ormus

i carry out network repairs for lots of companies still using win2k.
one company still uses w98!

a mate of mine swears hes got a customer that still uses w95!

Goldenyears

I'm using Vista and I have never had any problem with it.
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I'll get me coat

Leopard

isofa wrote: »

I've got one of those too! And a Mac Plus in the loft... Both still work fine (the Plus is a bit old as has to boot from floppies, so when they degrade it'll die sadly). The SE/30 is a pretty neat package, Word 5 flies along. I think it has PageMaker 4.2 installed too. I put my first ever commercial designs together as a 6th former (for paying clients) on an SE/30! Maybe one day it'll be worth a fortune

You can download all of Apple's older OSes including System 6, 7 and 7.5 here (legally from Apple): http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Older_System/

Its very name is an amusing story. It had become a tradition for Apple to add an "x" to the name of improved models. This worked fine: IIx, IIcx (I had one of those, too – it was my main computer). Then somebody, with a lack of forethought untypical of Apple – but Jobs was gone – came up with the name SE. When they upgraded that (and you're right, it was a beautiful and powerful little machine) they had to call it the SE... er... hmm... ... :doh: ... :think:... :idea:... "SE/30"... :dance:

Of relevance to another current thread in which you are participating here, we've also got in our loft one of the original 13" 1971 Sony Trinitron colour televisions. And that one sat on our successive kitchen tables for over 30 years until widescreen finally provoked its retirement. It was still going strong, though!

Apple and Sony have always been good for us! I've often wished they'd merged – before Sony went Windows.

Oneday77

Inactive wrote: »

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.

I would jump to Windows 7 then. I have installed it on my wife's laptop and it works great, performance and battery wise. Once Software4Students gets their act together the desktop will have W7.64bit Ultimate on it
But for the OP and back to topic. XP is getting no more enhancements\upgrades. All that will happen is security fixes will be issued via the update site. If you contact microsoft for help on and XP issue either pay through the nose or be prepared to get told Upgrade.

moonrakerz

Goldenyears wrote: »

I'm using Vista and I have never had any problem with it.

SPAM - he has to work for M$ !! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

RobTang

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Spot on.
The reason it is still around is because there is a huge investment in programs written it it that are still running. Somewhere in the bowels of almost every corporate there is an ancient mainframe churning through all the core business functions. There still will be long after the latest glitzy product has long become obsolete.

Those old mainframes are far better at data processing than anything that has come out of microsoft/apple/linux distos/oracle etc. and are far by far more secure.

and it still does have big investment (mostly because the programmer can charge and arm and a leg), the latest RPG release was like 2008 so its not exactly like it stuck in the past.

Marty_J wrote: »

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

my money is on stockholm syndrome.

m_13

ormus wrote: »

i carry out network repairs for lots of companies still using win2k.
one company still uses w98!

a mate of mine swears hes got a customer that still uses w95!

When I worked in desktop support I was called out to a Windows 3.11 machine. It was running a specialist programme to print placebo labels for drug trials and I'm guessing it's still there and working! Very strange to have a mouse with no scroll and no right click!

kabayiri

About 3 years ago I was asked to look at Crossover Office as a way of moving windows programs over to a Linux environment.

[Crossover is an emulation layer allowing windows programs to run on non-Windows platform]

It wasn't entirely successful, but at least I got a suite of automation scripts out of it.

Move forward to this summer and I revisited this with the latest version of Crossover on a debian linux derivative. It was very impressive. Most things ran without a hitch.

The other thing was the concept of 'bottles' to isolate separate windows emulation-instances. This means I can have the same auto scripts running regression suites against different versions of Office, IE, etc.

Maybe this is an option for legacy XP apps?