Posted on 12/22/2008 10:22:39 AM PST by A_Tradition_Continues
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is extending the deadline for making its supposedly retired Windows XP operating system available to custom PC builders.
Under the plan, system builders will be allowed to take delivery of XP licenses and media through May 30. Previously, Microsoft had announced a Jan. 31 XP cutoff date for system builders, which are typically smaller, build-to-order vendors. The news was first reported Friday by InformationWeek.com sister site ChannelWeb.
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LOL!
Where’s
Buckhorn?
I’ll keep using XP until it crashes.. again.
Vista is a slow motion train wreck, I don’t see how they have much choice.
I’m still using XP (SP2). I’ll go with the OS after Vista. No need for Vista here.
Note that I included the subject under Humor. Appears XP will be extended until MS comes out with another OS replacing Vista.
I've still got several machines running Windows 2000. I can't find any reason to get rid of them especially considering they work fine with Win2K but are too slow for WinXP and I have quite a few legacy devices for which there is no support in Vista.
Maybe Bill Gates needs to steal another operating system and release it under Microsoft’s name (only this time, he ought to steal one that actually works).
It is a joke how they are pouring all this money into the Vista rebranding effort (Mojave). Hey, Bill Gates, haven’t you heard that you can’t polish a turd?
“Maybe Bill Gates needs to steal another operating system “
BS.
I’ve had very good success with XP. Never had a crash going back to the original developer copy I used prior to the official release of XP.
> I’m still using XP (SP2). I’ll go with the OS after Vista. No need for Vista here.
(grin!) me too. After XP finishes, I will bite the bullet and go with Linux.
Unix is a REAL operating system, Windows is only a file loader.
Patiently waiting for the Apple crowd`````````
Oh, sorry, he did pay $50,000 for it, didn’t he? It’s not his fault that his partner was a moron...
Ping!
Personally, I'm waiting for the OS/2 crowd to show up.
It's dry humor...
Personally, I'm waiting for the OS/2 crowd to show up.
I'm still waiting for something better than CP/M...
“Mojave” may not be the greatest name for an operating system! They were slightly post stone age indians and didn’t even have the wheel until the “white man” arrived!
I like W2000. Ugh on Vista. I still have a 95 machine I never used, won’t support wireless unfortunately or I’d network it in..
To be fair to XP, I may have more browser issues than XP and a wireless router that just don’t mesh well occasionally and I have been to cheap to replace it.. ;-)
Win2000, xp and vista are just newer shades of lipstick on NT
I set up my daughters wireless network the other day and she has Vista.
What a mess!
Same here. My husband and son both run XP, and complain constantly about the invasive updates and other "It's not a bug, it's a feature!" MS problems.
I was one of ten people in the country who got stuck with Windows ME, and the Vista story sounds very similar. Replace a working OS with a system that is so buggy and unstable, everyone will rally to the next OS, no questions asked. Windows ME was supposed to replace Win2000, but after five years, there was no support for ME at all. Then everyone went to XP (except for rebels like me, who went backwards to Win2000).
Linux anyone? Ubuntu and Open Office. Works.
Myth Busters proved it can be done. Myth Busters - Poop Polishing
It wasn't his partner. That wouldn't be a big surprise. Besides, anyone dumb enough to partner with Bill Gates III deserves what he gets. Rather, Billy defrauded a complete stranger of billions.
Billy Gates III sold an OS to IBM. It was just an oversight that he didn't actually have an OS to sell them. But when your mommy is on the board of directors of The United Way and sits right next to one John Opel, the chairman of IBM, well, little things like fraud can be overlooked.
So little Billy, borrowing money from dear old dad, an "intellectual property" lawyer, bought a non-exclusive license to QDOS from Seattle Computing and hired someone to port it to the IBM PC. When it worked, Gates, in violation of the licensing agreement, "forgot" to tell Seattle Computing about the deal with IBM and bought the rest of QDOS.
Later, Seattle Computing sued Microsoft and won to the tune of $1,000,000.
Vista? Snort-giggle!
Ditto. I’ll be using XP Pro SP3 until there is something better. I don’t care if MS supports it or not. I’ll still use it.
You could stop your ignorant tirade against Rick Warren at any time.
You can also stop lying about his pro-life stance.
Why such animosity? If you are concerned about Warren’s doctrine, surely you could be more godly in your communication about it.
What the heck? I posted my message once and it came up 3 times? I think I running Win 2000 on this machine and it is generally very good.
Bill Gates is a crook and so is his friend Buffett and so are their MSNBC cronies plus Obama, Soros etc.
If I want to feel good about myself, I’ll use a Mac. If I want to get work done, I’ll use a PC.
Kubuntu 8.04 here.
Windows: DOS in a colorful clown suit. (I don’t remember where I read that so I can’t give proper credit. It was >7 years ago.)
Linux anyone? Ubuntu and Open Office. Works.
Actually, Linux and I don't get along. I don't quite know why, but I seem to lose arguments with it about things that just work on BSD (stuff like using files larger than 2GB seem to be unnecessarily obtuse on Linux, but just work on BSD). And since I have plenty of things that aren't PCs, NetBSD is my Unix flavor of choice.
But my heart belongs to CP/M. At least, the parts that don't belong to RT-11 and VMS...
Please post your crude replies elsewhere.
I bought a new PC and decided to get Vista just so I could see how bad it was. Funny thing is I don’t have any problems with it. Most people won’t unless you’re still using a dot-matrix printer or some exotic piece of hardware. The user interface takes a little patience to get use to (or you can click back to classic or ‘XP’ mode).
The next OS will be XP “Classic” . It worked for Coke....
Wow, two years after Vista’s release and people are still demanding the over seven year-old operating system. Can you imagine people demanding Mac OS X 10.1?
Still, kudos to Microsoft for bowing to the desires of their customers instead of forcing Vista.
Is it stealing if you get someone else to do it for you?
Besides, things worked fine. It took years of work to turn it into the bloated monster known as Vista.
"Ask Bill [Gates] why function code 6 ends in a dollar sign. No one in the world knows that but me." -- Gary Killdall, author of CP/M
I have no real beef with Vista other than I simply don’t care for the look and the memory consumption. We have a couple of laptops around here loaded with Vista that are the last preference. Around here the “Classic XP” traits are the preferred choice.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Anyone have a suggestion on a vendor making good XP boxes these days?
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