The main pillar of M$ computing here.
“Ruh Roh” is right.
All the computers at my work have XP as our OS. If Vista (a pox be upon it) isn’t available, we’re going to have to go with Win7. Our IT guy may have some work ahead of him.
,,, personally I like XP better than the Windows 7 system . Paint and MS Word and Photos were much better on XP .
Seems like even though XP was/is more vulnerable to hackers, it is also easier to fix, mainly by replacing corrupted files. WIth 7, they assume the files are perfect and special and blessed and they'll be damned if they let you replace/repair any of them. Hackers don't seem to have that limitation.
The problem with MS support begins with when you try to find the support area for the product you want.
Mostly you will find yourself shuffled off to the forums which are almost as useless as the Google Gmail forums.
If you truly want free support from some volunteer folks with the right answers most of the time, go to www.techguy.org.
You’ll never go to Microsoft support again.
On vista right now...I’ve never had a single problem with it.
Windows XP is the Chevy smallblock V8 of operating systems.
Meh, moving to Mac anyway.
Whutevuh. I still Office 2003 because I don’t care for the interface on the new Office products.
And because it doesn’t correct grammatical errors...
‘Change we can’t believe in’....... oh well nothing lasts forever and computer OS’s have short shelf lives. Maybe I’ll buy a Mac instead just to register my own personal eff U with Microsoft.
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Darn it, I don’t want XP to go away. I’m already hating all the compatibility issues that will come up! ARRGHHH!
Makes me wonder if a group of current Microsoft employees couldn’t resign and form a new company that would continue support of XP.
“Eff” MS. There are ALOT of old machines that still use XP and will NOT be able to run Win7. Mostly, those machines are owned by families and small business - who don’t have an IT guy on staff to tweak the old machine.
Using Win7 Ultimate at home on the big machine, only because I am forced to because of school.
I’m going to take the XP bench machines that I have and partition them as a dual boot, so I can run Linux on them.
The more I learn about MS, the more I dislike them.
I’ve had two machines running Vista for several years now (Vista was OEM, so there were no upgrade issues). They’ve both performed flawlessly since the day I brought them home. What am I doing wrong?
In that case, I hope that two years from now, a version of Linux is so user-friendly, I won’t care what Microsoft offers. I’ve heard good things about Linux Mint, but haven’t bothered to try it yet. Being a non-power user, XP does everything I need.
The wife and I both use HP Mini netbooks as the basis for our system with peripheral everything. Her netbook has XP w/SP3, and mine came with Win7. The difference in performance is astounding. I wish I could go back to XP. Win7 is a memory hog.
My local small network has six computers; 4 with XP Pro and 2 with Win7 (one with 32-bit and the other with 64-bit). Operationally, I can't see any difference in operation.
The one thing that irritates me about MS is when they come up with a new OS, they rearrange the file directory structure or rename certain of them or change the icon. That causes confusion when you're trying to find something and it's not located under the directory you're used to finding it in.
Now, will I upgrade from XP to Win7? I believe that if it is working OK and it isn't broken, you don't fix it. I think there is a niche market for XP geeks to band together to keep XP alive when and if MS stops supporting it. It makes sense simply because there are so many machines running XP. Even Win7 is partitioned so you can run some XP programs on it, because they won't run on Win7.
If Win8 is coming out in October, what does it offer over XP and Win7? In any event, if you go to Win8, wait until SP1 comes out so MS can have its customers troubleshoot their new OS for them. [That's the standard MS operating procedure.]