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Microsoft bets on Windows XP disaster
COMPUTERWORLD ^ | December 12, 2013 | Gregg Keizer

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at computerworld.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: vmware; windows; windows7; windows8; windowsxp
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To: Lazamataz

I GOT RID OF WINDOWS 7 AND WENT BACK TO XP, 7 IS CRAP


81 posted on 12/16/2013 10:23:58 AM PST by dalereed
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To: dalereed

Win 7, I like it.


82 posted on 12/16/2013 10:24:25 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Exactly

Putting a new Windows on an older computer is not going to work. They normally just did not have the RAM and HDD space to make that possible, or even a good idea.


83 posted on 12/16/2013 10:24:52 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: The KG9 Kid

So, you are saying that a previous XP machine that will install Ubuntu or Mint from a live CD will run OS X Mavericks?


84 posted on 12/16/2013 10:27:18 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts ("It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority...")
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

No. Throw that awful crap in the street.


85 posted on 12/16/2013 10:28:54 AM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: Lazamataz

When I started working on that Windows 7 Toshiba I wanted to throw it out of a window. Once the Malware Bytes and other things had done their job and I deleted the enormous windows.old.000 file (more than 20gb) it is purring.

Windows 7 seems pretty cool, but I also love Linux, which doesn’t hog the resources. If my nephew wants to play “Hero Up”, which only works on Win/Mac computers, he has to turn off the Norton - also a resource hog or it won’t run properly. He has also discovered Robolox, which did not take long.

He was going to try and download “Mine craft for free” which is probably malware and viruses while I was at the store. I explained to him that it wasn’t free and the site was probably a scam. Besides he has Minecraft on his XBOX.


86 posted on 12/16/2013 10:31:14 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: VanDeKoik
MS should really keep supporting 11 year old OS because some people are cheap, lazy, or feel entitled to hand holding in order to keep their out of date computer safe.

Debian, RedHat, ArchLinux, and Slax are ALL well over eleven years old and still supported to this day. Fast, reliable, much more secure from malware than any 'doze version, and FREE. With new updates and versions being released constantly.

You sound like a Mac fanboi, actually.

87 posted on 12/16/2013 10:34:43 AM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

There are other Linux varieties too, but for a computer like that it would most definitely need one of them.


88 posted on 12/16/2013 10:34:44 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: GeronL
with so many flavors of Linux I am surprised someone hasn’t come up with a way to allow a family to use the same computer with each having their own OS.

That is what is known as a "Thin Client". Quite useful, actually. Running a 486DX2-120 over ethernet to another machine with a Sempron 1.8GHz running Mepis as the main server. Simple, one of several hooked up to that server, and each machine has its own custom interface with varying levels of access and write capability to the main machine.

89 posted on 12/16/2013 10:42:36 AM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Right, Microsoft. XP is a great OS up until the microsecond before midnight of the last day it’s supported, but one microsecond later it’s the biggest security nightmare known to mankind.

Reminds me of Father Guido Sarducci’s old SNL skit where eating fish one microsecond before midnight on Friday is a sin, but a microsecond later it’s not because the Pope has said eating fish on Friday is OK on all Fridays after that.


90 posted on 12/16/2013 10:50:50 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: GeronL
There are versions of Linux that can run on very very very old machines.

No kidding, mate. Still have old copies of D_mn Small Linux, Feather Linux, Peanut and even Puppy Linux that run well on a 486 with as little as 32 megs of memorey. Even a Red Hat that runs much faster (at 800x600) but needs at least 8 megs for the GUI to operate.

It will drop down to the command line if not, but I am not that comfortable with that option since the last time I used strictly command-line displays was when I was running 'DOS 5.0'.

91 posted on 12/16/2013 10:51:50 AM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: Utilizer

I think it should be possible on the same machine without having to worry about partitions.


92 posted on 12/16/2013 10:53:21 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Utilizer; taildragger

I started up the Win 7 machine and it was running an update and stuff and now its been ‘thinking’ for 10 minutes and there aren’t even icons on the desktop.

I might just turn the thing off. Can we do that with Windows without messing it up?


93 posted on 12/16/2013 10:54:53 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: GeronL

I finally got that Win 7 machine running right and an update is messing it up? I dunno


94 posted on 12/16/2013 10:56:48 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: Utilizer

Ooops! That should be a “486DX4-120”. Then again it could be that one ‘-160’ I was experimenting with... have to open it up and temporarily remove the fan to find out for certain.


95 posted on 12/16/2013 10:58:42 AM PST by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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bfl


96 posted on 12/16/2013 11:03:22 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: GeronL

On restart the Win 7 machine is working

Adobe wants to update, like always


97 posted on 12/16/2013 11:08:15 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: GeronL
You have NORTON?

I consider Norton to *be* a virus.

98 posted on 12/16/2013 11:08:28 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: Lazamataz

I do not have Norton, I have Ubuntu

The other computer does not belong to me


99 posted on 12/16/2013 11:09:02 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: montag813

not exactly your normal useage model then.


100 posted on 12/16/2013 11:09:22 AM PST by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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