XP was a winner. Win7 looks like a winner. So NATURALLY they shut XP down and now target Win7 for the same treatment.
Laz, the XP kernel cannot be patched beyond a certain point. The malware threats out there are just too sophisticated for it. You’re a computer guy, look it up and you’ll see just how vulnerable it had become.
The kernel is version 5, after all. That is one up from Windows NT 4.0. Incidently, the name for Server/Professional 2000 was supposed to be Windows NT 5.0, but Gates changed it to glom onto the Y2K scare (focus groups showed that anything named 2000 back then was thought to already be compliant). XPs version number is actually 5.1. Windows Server 2003 is 5.2.
The next kernel release was 6.0, which came out with Vista. Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows 8 and Windows Server all are part of the Kernel 6 specification. There are tons of new security modules built in and active, such as elevation of privilege checks. XP just doesn’t have the ability to do that in the kernel.
Windows 10 is kernel 10. They skipped 7, 8 & 9 for marketing reasons. Again, lots of kernel features added.
Win7 is a WINNER. I use it in home, office, and laboratory environments. It's excellent.
Win8 make me want to grab the nearest firearm and ventilate something ...
Technical Preview looks like it will be good.
Interesting that you'd call XP a "winner." A "winner" OS doesn't need security patches EVERY SINGLE TUESDAY for the past 15 years to keep it from being hacked.
Sheesh. XP while stable and reliable was no "winner." It was a POS of an operating system from a Security Perspective.
Give me your IP address and I'll prove it.