And they are using those no-longer supported Win98 on the internet while thinking their old Norton is still protecting them,not realizing it stopped updating a year or two ago!Nor do they know where and how to get even a free antivirus that will protect them for another year.
Their safety? lies in being such a small minority of users that XP specific malware won't notice their machines.
Really,for the simple banking and bill paying,email and even Facebook the old OS(be it 95,98,Me,etc) was enough for a lot of people;it is a shame the evildoers force constant changes.It is one thing for people to buy news cars,TVs,or computers from a desire to get more performance;it is quite another to be forced to buy new ones even though the old still function as it did when new.
It is as though one had to buy new locks and keys for one's house and car every year.Many people just haven't grasped the concept of needing to replace what appears to them to be perfectly functional appliances.Those same people did not demand new digital televisions and were happy to just get a good quality picture on their existing sets.They think I am advising them to spend money wastefully.
BTW,I tried and disliked Vista,and use XP Pro and NT at work and about a dozen differnt OSes as the mood strikes at home from DOS to Win7,linux , and Mac OS X depending on the task.I was sorry that IBM didn't go further with OS/2(I was given Warp 4 by the rep as a sort of reward for being one of the few who ran Os/2 and the Warp 3 for several years.)I expect to be using XP Pro until EOS in 2014..
Well said.
> And they are using those no-longer supported Win98 on the internet while thinking their old Norton is still protecting them,not realizing it stopped updating a year or two ago!Nor do they know where and how to get even a free antivirus that will protect them for another year. Their safety? lies in being such a small minority of users that XP specific malware won't notice their machines.
Hopefully.
> Really,for the simple banking and bill paying,email and even Facebook the old OS(be it 95,98,Me,etc) was enough for a lot of people;it is a shame the evildoers force constant changes.It is one thing for people to buy news cars,TVs,or computers from a desire to get more performance;it is quite another to be forced to buy new ones even though the old still function as it did when new. It is as though one had to buy new locks and keys for one's house and car every year.Many people just haven't grasped the concept of needing to replace what appears to them to be perfectly functional appliances.Those same people did not demand new digital televisions and were happy to just get a good quality picture on their existing sets.They think I am advising them to spend money wastefully.
I follow a mixture... I'm running Win7-64 on most of my Windows boxes now, but my favorite graphics editor is still PaintShopPro 4.1 from 1996. Runs great.
My vehicles are decades old ('82 Mazda RX-7, '95 Ford F-150), and my guitars are all from the 60's and 70's. They work fine. :)
> BTW,I tried and disliked Vista,and use XP Pro and NT at work and about a dozen differnt OSes as the mood strikes at home from DOS to Win7,linux , and Mac OS X depending on the task.I was sorry that IBM didn't go further with OS/2(I was given Warp 4 by the rep as a sort of reward for being one of the few who ran Os/2 and the Warp 3 for several years.)I expect to be using XP Pro until EOS in 2014..
Win2000 is still my favorite release of Windows. When I set up XP or Win7, first thing I do is brain-damage the GUI back into Win2K mode. I like OS-X more, Linux is good, and I live in BSD Unix most of the time on the servers... Didn't run into OS/2 much, heard it was pretty darn good.