Posted on 12/16/2013 7:23:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Makes obvious prediction -- since it's calling the shots -- that ending support for XP will mean 'more systems will get compromised'
Computerworld - Microsoft today used the hoary practice of predicting next year to drive another nail into Windows XP's coffin.
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I remember having a 486 DX, don’t remember anything else, I remember I drooled at the 486 SX at a computer shop once. lol
And the free market won’t jump ahead to support XP? I have a feeling a lot of small little shops will be selling support services for the XP system. There’s just too many of them. I have 5 XP laptops in my manufacturing shop running my various machinery. I always get a kick out of people who come in and even see my floppy disks floating around and tell me I should upgrade. HA. yeah, no problem, a $1000 laptop with Windows 8 (which I hate with a passion) and a couple new $200,000 5 axis CNC machines. Yeah. I’ll buy a new $150,000 CMM while I’m at it just so I can get a new laptop with the horrid windows 8 OS.
The only reason I ever upgraded from XP was the engineering and CAM software needed demands more and more speed. Windows 8 may have jumped the shark for me and unless they straighten that mess out I’ll figure out a way to stretch out Win 7 until I retire.
LOL!
I have a feeling that Microsoft will go after anybody who does.
There was a website that was carrying all the Windows 2000 patches after Windows 2000 went out of support, and Microsoft had them shut down.
I am sure they will do the same with XP. They want XP to die so people will be forced to buy Windows 8.
Most XP users by far are in other countries, I foresee cottage industries of people trying to keep them running for a fee.
Yep.
I have already removed Norton from one computer in the past few months and replaced it with AVG and then replaced that with Avast. I might be doing that again soon enough.
It’s called corporate greed...
Like government, they want more and more of your money.
There are several Linux distro’s built for children too, that could be worthy of its own thread. Just saying. I really need to get some blank DVD’s or CD’s and make some.
That's my plan if using XP becomes an issue. I'll install the latest Linux Mint and use VirtualBox to run a non-internet connected XP VM. Macrium Reflect will restore a Macrium image to a VirtualBox VM pretty easily. That way I can keep using my XP system. I have a LOT of software and games I could not bear to lose.
Can’t you make a back-up iso of your XP? so if you get a crippling virus you can restore it?
And I do, once per month...keeping two copies. But when I load Linux Mint and VirtualBox, I'll restore the latest image to the new XP VM.
That's IF using WinXP becomes a problem after it is not supported. I don't particularly care if it supported or not. But who knows what the landscape will look like after XP sunsets.
true!
It’s hard to find a VMWare image for OSX that actually runs. Hence most hackers run Fusion and virtualize Windows and Linux.
Windows sucks. XP is your dying uncle on a ventilator. Are you going to trust him with your $$?
You can get C&C to run on Linux ;) (I have been playing Half Life 2 for the last couple of days... no probs at all.. no kick to desktop... it’s flawless ;^) )
I just went from XP to 8.1 and everything is fine for me, I don’t know what the big deal was supposed to be.
I thought there would be all kinds of annoying differences, but I have my new computer looking pretty much like it always has.
I want Windows 3.1 back!
That WINE or PlayOnLinux thing doesn’t seem to work for me.
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