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Windows XP to be phased out by year's end despite customer demand
APC Magazine ^
| 12 April 2007
| Angus Kidman
Posted on 04/12/2007 8:20:09 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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To: antiRepublicrat
I will wait for Vista until I get a new computer and/or somebody hacks the DRM out of it.
141
posted on
04/13/2007 7:44:44 AM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
(http://xanga.com/rwfromkansas)
To: ShadowAce
You will buy Windows Vista, now!
142
posted on
04/13/2007 7:46:19 AM PDT
by
Old_Mil
(Duncan Hunter in 2008! A Veteran, A Patriot, A Reagan Republican... http://www.gohunter08.com/)
To: Ouderkirk
143
posted on
04/13/2007 7:47:12 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: AntiFed
I use
Debian, but many newer Linux users seem to like
Ubuntu. There is also
OpenSuSE, which I set up on a virtual machine recently for a specific application. It seems pretty user-friendly.
144
posted on
04/13/2007 7:48:11 AM PDT
by
B Knotts
(Anybody but Guliani!)
To: antiRepublicrat
Another thing I didn't understand about XP was Microsoft's decision to consult Crayola on the color scheme. I ran XP without themes (looks like 2K) until skinning software got good. At least this time Microsoft just tried to copy Apple (although not too well). If you leave themes turned on with XP, you can just use the Silver color scheme and it looks much better than the XP Cartoon Plus one.
145
posted on
04/13/2007 7:49:10 AM PDT
by
TChris
(The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
To: TChris
Everything since has been incremental improvement, polishing and pervasive Microsoft feature-creep. I have to disagree a bit. XP did bring a lot that 2000 didn't have, even if you turn off the Crayola user interface. There were a lot of kernel changes, including being able to deal with larger files, much better memory handling, better locking, hyperthreading support, better multiprocessing support, and in general a lot of important kernel updates. Hibernation and suspend were reworked to be a LOT better. And wireless (with SP2) works great. They also split out the core services for stability and security. Let's see, they rewrote Defrag, actually much of NTFS is a lot better.
On the server end, there's just no comparison especially if you're running IIS, where the security and stability are far beyond what was in 2000.
I'll never from XP or 2003 back to 2000, at least not willingly.
To: 1rudeboy
EVE online is an awesome game. Don’t know what you’d have to have for a laptop to run it tho. You might check out their forums at www.eve-online.com if you haven’t yet. Folks there are pretty helpful.
147
posted on
04/13/2007 7:53:38 AM PDT
by
Leatherneck_MT
(Won't vote for a liberal in the democrat party, won't vote for one in the Republican party. Ever)
To: Old_Mil
Is anybody else getting these curious system messages (on XP) that say, “Your operating system MAY be fraudulent, click on the message box to resolve this”
It appears to be a buy Vista now campaign as the link takes you directly to MS website. I’ve tried to right click and delete but it never goes away, I get about 5 messages everyday.
I think MS if flirting with Anti-trust stuff here or at least fraudulent advertising.
148
posted on
04/13/2007 7:54:01 AM PDT
by
rbmillerjr
("Message to radical jihadis...come to my hood, it's understood ------ it's open season" Stuck Mojo)
To: TChris
If you leave themes turned on with XP, you can just use the Silver color scheme and it looks much better than the XP Cartoon Plus one. I eventually discovered that, but by then I liked my skins. It is much better than the Crayola look.
To: ShadowAce
"Dell recognizes the needs of small business customers and understands that more time is needed to transition to a new operating system," the post read in part. "The plan is to continue offering Windows XP on select Dimension and Inspiron systems until later this [northern] summer." Too late. Dell lost what otherwise would have been a guaranteed purchase when I was shopping for a laptop a few weeks ago. All Vistas, no XP = no sale.
150
posted on
04/13/2007 7:59:01 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
To: rbmillerjr
It appears to be a buy Vista now campaign as the link takes you directly to MS website. Ive tried to right click and delete but it never goes away, I get about 5 messages everyday.I suppose it hasn't occurred to you that this is a virus, probably because you clicked on something while visiting a website.
151
posted on
04/13/2007 7:59:54 AM PDT
by
js1138
(The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
To: antiRepublicrat
I have to disagree a bit. XP did bring a lot that 2000 didn't have, even if you turn off the Crayola user interface. There were a lot of kernel changes, including being able to deal with larger files, much better memory handling, better locking, hyperthreading support, better multiprocessing support, and in general a lot of important kernel updates. Hibernation and suspend were reworked to be a LOT better. And wireless (with SP2) works great. They also split out the core services for stability and security. Let's see, they rewrote Defrag, actually much of NTFS is a lot better. I bundled all that up under "incremental improvement". 2000 was such a quantum leap above 95/98/Me and NT 4 that all the improvements since have been relatively small by comparison. IMO, of course.
152
posted on
04/13/2007 8:00:30 AM PDT
by
TChris
(The Democrat Party: A sewer into which is emptied treason, inhumanity and barbarism - O. Morton)
To: js1138
“I suppose it hasn’t occurred to you that this is a virus, probably because you clicked on something while visiting a website.”
I’ve run comprehensive anti virus stuff on it...it is not a virus. Why would a virus take me to a MS website to buy Vista?
153
posted on
04/13/2007 8:01:24 AM PDT
by
rbmillerjr
("Message to radical jihadis...come to my hood, it's understood ------ it's open season" Stuck Mojo)
To: Moose4
...and those games dont have Mac versions (Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 and a few online games), I would switch to a Mac at this point... Have you heard of FlightGear? Maybe not as polished as MS FlightSim - yet - it is coming along at a nice pace. They are actively working on getting it certified as an FAA PC Aviation Training Device. It's free, open source, extensible (if you want to try your hand at Flight Dynamics Models) and it runs on Windows (2K/XP), MAC OSX, UNIX, and Linux.
FYI
154
posted on
04/13/2007 8:09:04 AM PDT
by
AFreeBird
(This space for rent. Inquire within)
To: AntiFed
nVIDIA blames its performance issues on Vista limitations & I believe themJust for the record, it's true. MS is clamping down on hardware independence, with Vista. The current trend is amazing: MS is turning into the old Apple and Apple is turning into the old MS.
To: rbmillerjr
That's pretty much the message you get when you're running a pirated copy of XP and install the Genuine Validation Tool when updating your computer at MS Windows Update.
To: Myrddin
...real UNIX on 3B20... One of the systems we had (in addition to DEC, Netware, PC, MAC) at my last job was a 3B/4000, SRV 4.2.
157
posted on
04/13/2007 8:23:31 AM PDT
by
AFreeBird
(This space for rent. Inquire within)
To: rbmillerjr
Why would a virus take me to a MS website to buy Vista?I don't know, and I'm unaware of anyone else having your problem.
When I have weird problems I search google for the message, to see if anyone else is having the same problem. If I had a valid MS copy of Windows and got messages saying it is invalid, I would go to my computer seller and ask why.
One small thing. I know for a fact that many Dell computers have Windows installed with a different licence number that what is displayed on the case sticker. There's a program called Keyfinder that will tell you what the real number is. There's a possibility that someone with a pirated copy has used your installation key.
In any case, after a day or so, I would consult google, the PC vendor and Microsoft, in that order.
158
posted on
04/13/2007 8:25:05 AM PDT
by
js1138
(The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
To: stompk
my post does not then, apply to you. I am talking about the other 95% of people who are looking for a home solution. anyone looking to use Vista for business obviously is getting bad advice :-) and to taxed2death - redhat and SUSE. albeit not recently.
I run SuSE 10.2 at home on all my systems, even my T30 ThinkPad with WPC54G wireless card. Works like a champ. And my 80 year old dad uses it too. It wasn't that difficult to show him around the basics of the system, and how to launch Firefox, E-Mail and Solitaire.
If you haven't checked out SuSE or Redhat recently, you might want to give them another look.
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posted on
04/13/2007 8:29:01 AM PDT
by
AFreeBird
(This space for rent. Inquire within)
To: rbmillerjr
I get zero hits in google for your message. If MS were doing this, the net would be littered with complaints. Either you are misreporting the text of the message, or you have some new and unidentified virus.
Are you seeing these messages while web browing?
160
posted on
04/13/2007 8:30:33 AM PDT
by
js1138
(The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
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