Boot Puppy from a CD and save all data to a flash drive?
Why not just keep available paid support for their greatest-ever operating system? I have a workstation that runs day and night processing tens of thousands of automation operations on dozens of databases and websites. It runs XP and has not been rebooted or even touched in 6 years. Never once had a blue screen even before that.
I’ve been noticing how many of the mom and pop grocery stores, gas stations, etc. in my area that are still using XP on their cash registers. Could be a nightmare to be a customer of a mom and pop stores next year.
With a good firewall, updated resident AV, and safe surfing habits, I see no reason why XP should not be good for years to come.
Sounds like a scare tactic to get everyone to upgrade now!
I’ve been moving all of my company computers to Apple.
For those few applications that require Windows, we use VMWare Fusion to run Windows on the Macs. It has a neat mode where the Windows applications look and run just like Mac apps. VMWare Fusion costs under $80 and is often on sale. We use old copies of XP from Windows machines that have passed onto the great beyond.
Windows security issues come from internet access and email, so those activities are done on the Mac side only. We have not had a single virus or malware issue on any of our Macs since we start moving to them five years ago.
We will use Windows XP until our vendors no longer support it, not when Microsoft tells us to.
I took an old laptop that had Vista on it and wiped it clean then installed Ubuntu. Runs like new!
None of my XP machines are hooked up to the internet.
Solution: Take XP machines off the net.
I have an old XP machine, I still run it. I don’t connect it any more.
I have 2 offline XP computers pushing a plotter. I don’t think the plotter co has drivers for anything past XP. Good thing Dells run for ever.
“ending support for XP will mean ‘more systems will get compromised’”
LOL, no kidding.
Next up: “The sun will rise tomorrow. Water is wet, fire is hot, and cuts hurt!”
I H8 W8!*
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Another day, another part from Linux and OSX Judaists trying to convince everyone how awlful Windows is.
MS should really keep supporting 11 year old OS because some people are cheap, lazy, or feel entitled to hand holding in order to keep their out of date computer safe.
And some of the people here have nerve to be critical of people on welfare that think along the same lines?
Most XP users are in foreign countries because XP has a lot of language options. I wonder how much software in foreign countries can be upgraded to a newer operating system?
I watched a South Korean show about a cyber police force tracking down hackers, and most of them were using XP. Crazy.
This is a good time for Linux to make a push.
oh by the way...
I don’t know if this is true, I doubt it.
Koreans use Internet Explorer, its the law
http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/2010/02/24/no-choice-insouth-korea/
http://www.zdnet.com/south-koreans-use-internet-explorer-its-the-law-7000022827/
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I am highly doubtful of this. For instance the company that makes a word processor program in Hangul (written Korean) produces them in PC, Mac and Linux versions.
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Apparently most Koreans are still usin XP. Sounds crazy but if it ain’t broke why fix it?
Considering that the 'nix crowd has historically been the ones first finding and then fixing malware, bugs, and rootkit violations in 'doze over the years -I really do not see this as much of a problem at all. Especially since MS typically is reluctant to admit any difficulties, if ever.
Speaking of which, isn't it time that Linux was offered as an industry standard by now? Debian, RedHat, ArchLinux and the longest-running (I think; I Am No A History Expert) Slax Linux have been around for longer than 'doze 3.0, 3.11, 95x, and 98SE existed as acceptable distros. Not to mention the splinter forks and tiny distros that some use.
Isn't it about time that major OEMs began offering their machines with viable desktops on one of the major 'nix distros as a much cheaper alternative to the MS bloatware?
As for the later and later releases of MS platforms: hate 'em.
Vista, 'doze v7, v8.0, v8.1; I have had the opportunity to play with new installs on more than one occasion, and other than decreasing speed, demanding more memory, and taking up more disk space, there is pretty much no demonstrable increase in performance or value that I can see.
A nicer interface? Linux does that and more, with KDE and Gnome being the two largest that come to mind.
Easy application with a menu button or taskbar? Pretty much any 'nix distro gives you that option by default, or you can tweak it yourself via scripts that are easily accessible to you instead of hidden in the OS under some arcane name.
Want more speed out of your machine without having to spend pounds of money and effort into hardware installs? Switch to a less-pretty OS and / or GUI that needs less system resources and therefore allows your machine to process instructions much faster.
Right, Microsoft. XP is a great OS up until the microsecond before midnight of the last day it’s supported, but one microsecond later it’s the biggest security nightmare known to mankind.
Reminds me of Father Guido Sarducci’s old SNL skit where eating fish one microsecond before midnight on Friday is a sin, but a microsecond later it’s not because the Pope has said eating fish on Friday is OK on all Fridays after that.
And the free market won’t jump ahead to support XP? I have a feeling a lot of small little shops will be selling support services for the XP system. There’s just too many of them. I have 5 XP laptops in my manufacturing shop running my various machinery. I always get a kick out of people who come in and even see my floppy disks floating around and tell me I should upgrade. HA. yeah, no problem, a $1000 laptop with Windows 8 (which I hate with a passion) and a couple new $200,000 5 axis CNC machines. Yeah. I’ll buy a new $150,000 CMM while I’m at it just so I can get a new laptop with the horrid windows 8 OS.
The only reason I ever upgraded from XP was the engineering and CAM software needed demands more and more speed. Windows 8 may have jumped the shark for me and unless they straighten that mess out I’ll figure out a way to stretch out Win 7 until I retire.