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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BTW, one XP system I’m running with SP3 doesn’t work on WPA with AES encryption, only TKIP. Is there an update for this? The card is a Centrino and works using AES in Ubuntu.
Whoops, some of the prices went up a little bit.
I bought it all last week sale shopping.
We have an old Pentium 3 that still has Windows 98SE (along with a newer machine with XP sp2). Problem I have with 98Se is that it has a hard time recognizing thumb drives. Nowadays, that can be a problem.
Heh. Just let a Linux advocate say exactly the same thing and hear the Microsoft apologist go berserk.
It's unusable! It's too hard!
Blah, blah, blah.
Yes. Ubuntu has been my OS of choice for the last 2 years, and I've been trying to convince some others to dabble/switch. I boot to Windows on my own PC maybe three times a year (It's the install I used before Linux.
N.B. to all who have had poor Linux experiences in the past: give it another try. I had some bad experiences with Ubuntu Dapper and Fedora Redhat Core 3 (circa 2004) and put it aside for a couple years before switching for good. The Ubuntu family has made huge improvements in the last year or so.
I worked with a guy at a place called Data Free that worked closely with Bill Gates and the guy(can't remember his name) who really started the OS.
He said the guy was real smart but timid and didn't try to push it, so old Bill took over and took all the credit. Yep he is living large and living a lie. In my heart, I know he will get his just rewards!
See replies #29 and #60. I recalled that Gates did something shifty way back at the beginning of his business career, but had forgotten the details and was too lazy to check up on them. Knitebane in #29 gives a good summation of the situation back then.
I’ve been wondering about this — We have three machines with XP on them, and never ever have automatic updates turned on — always pick and choose updates. I have accepted all security updates on these machines, but am still on IE6 and do not plan to accept IE7. Also am still on Win Media Player 9 and will not accept Media Player 10 — do not like it.
I have not yet downloaded SP3. So you are saying it is trouble and recommend to stay away from it?
Thanks in advance.
Before the launch of Win ME, I entered an online contest with Microsoft and won a free pre-release copy of ME. It wasn’t worth the price....
M-soft is officially supporting XP until 2014, April, I believe. I plan to run our 3 XP machines at least until then and likely way beyond that date, probably as long as I can keep them running.
Unless M-soft comes up with some OS down the road that is better than their current offerings, I won’t be buying any more M-soft OS’s, and Apple machines cost more than I am willing to pay.
“Oh, sorry, he did pay $50,000 for it, didn’t he? “
So why lie and say he stole it? Such immaturity is as much stealing a man’s reputation as you falsely claimed Bill stole the OS. Grow up and stop being an angry idiot.
He's also the guy that Microsoft hired to port QDOS from the Zilog Z-80 to the IBM 8086.
Then he built Visual Basic.
He has a lot to answer for.
;)
Because he defrauded Seattle Computing out of the IBM licensing fee by lying to them.
He's scum and his "reputation" is mostly self-generated fluffy PR.
He got booted out of Harvard for stealing $80,000 in computer time, saved only by a "donation" from his father to the alumni fund.
He cheated Seattle Computing out of billions by intentionally deceiving them and violated a written contract to do it.
Grow up and stop being an angry idiot.
Awwwww, does poking holes in your plastic savior hurt your little feelings?
You dorks do nothing but harbor resentment, proving that computer geeks have no social skills.
You worship a fraud, proving that kneepadders are raving, koolaid-drinking sycophants.
He bought DOS from money his Mom lent him. He sold an innovative new OS, DOS, based on screenshots and white papers, that didn’t even own yet-to IBM.
Later in life, as a so called “friend” of Steve Jobs, he stole the, now famous, “Windows” GUI, or Graphical User Interface, from Apple.
Really, he only stole the the idea and an poor imitation of the look. The Apple Lisa (McIntosh), for instance, was a true multi-tasking OS well before (like about 5 or 6 years before) Windows’ interface to DOS was, which came at version 3. Lisa’s multi-tasking was called Multi-Finder, or something like that, IIRC.
Oh, to be young (and have a pocket full of cash) again.
Same here. Along with DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, WinNT and an opened copy of BeOS
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