Ping!...............
Not this boy. I’m just itching to give a mac a try.
“”It sort of hit us that, wait a minute, XP will be gone as of June 30. What are we going to do?” he said. “If no one does something, it’s going to be gone.””
Question, is the 6/30 deadline for the sale of XP or sale AND support?
“Neat policy. Make you product obsolete on a schedule.............”
The American auto industry was doing it before the Japanese came along. ;)
Microsoft’s next OS will be called “Ctrlaltdelete”
I have Vista, and must admit that XP is better. Microsoft seems to have a penchant for making things complicated.
I’ve been using Windows XP ever since it came out. I’m happy with it, and I don’t want to change.
I’ve worked with Vista - it’s a bloated piece of crap. Microsoft can have it. I don’t want it.
There is no difference between Gates and the blood-suckers who run the Petroleum industry. They are cut from the same mold.
Hey, isn’t that the philosophy that worked so well for the Detroit Big 3 (now the Small 3) auto makers back in the 50s and 60s.
GM, Ford and Chrysler STILL get love notes from Toyota and Nissan. (I’m driving MY second Sienna mini and LOVE it.)
If the ARROGANT Bill Gates follows through with this, I’ll also be adding to Steve Jobs’ fortunes.
To late. Already starting to convert to Apples.: )
See ya MS.
I’d buy a Mac if I were....
not already operating three of them!!!
(ET phone home!)
Isn’t amazing how people stood in line at stores for Windows 95? Remember how many stores, like Best Buy, had midnight sales the day Windows 95 was first available and people were so excited?
What a study in contrast to that dog Windows ME...er, Windows Vista.
Depends on what you do, but I recently put a dual boot of XP and Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is the closest to being ready for prime time of any Linux I’ve touched. Installed easily, found all my hardware, comes with browser, email client, and open office.
Microsoft is running down the path that IBM took about 20 years ago. Microsoft won’t go away, but they are going to take some serious hits in market share.
I want to upgrade to XP, but here's a question for anyone.
For my computer there are XP drivers available on the manufactures website. Now while I know computers very well I'm no expert, so I don't have full confidence in my ability to switch.
However, One bad thing that could be a plus is it only came with a 111GB hard drive which I'm filling up rapidly (I have lots of pictures & videos), so I am going to need another hard drive. This is no problem, There's plenty of space & plugs in my computer for it. I'm looking at getting 500gb one which by itself should be more than I will ever need.
Now if I buy a new hard drive, can I install XP on the new drive, put the right drivers on it and then just switch the plugs to make that my C:\ (boot up)drive? If anything goes wrong then I can just switch them back. And if it does work, just delete all the vista files and use the current hard drive I have as back up & storage.
I know I will have to reinstall much of my software, but it would be worth it to escape Vista Hell.
Is this a good idea or a stupid one?
Oh, and an added bonus of Ubuntu, you can download an ISO image, put it on 1 CD, and boot to it. It’s self contained, and functional on 1 CD. It won’t molest your system, but if you choose to install it, obviously it runs better.
Kinda sounds like Ford, General Motors, Chrylser and AMC in the 50's and 60's. I support American made products, but I believe the foreign competition was good for the market in this case.
You people disgust me!
Are you too stupid not to understand that Gates needs to promote Vista and the coming Windows 7 to provide outsourced work for the programmers in India who are doing the work Americans won’t do to sell the software those same Americans will be forced to buy.
/cyn
These guys are running around like Chicken Little.
XP will continue to work after June 30!
If one is using it, and likes it, one just has to continue to use it.
It is not suddenly going to disappear from your computer!
[If enough people refuse to buy VISTA, VISTA will go the way of the Ford’s Edsel. If enough people refused to give up XP, MS will be forced to continue to support XP. They saw that last year when purchasers were demanding XP over VISTA on new computer purchases.]
I’m putting two new systems together next month, and unfortunately, they’ll be running Vista 64-bit Home Premium, due to Microsquish’s impending withdrawal of XP support next year. To be safe, I’m spending the extra money to get 4 GB of memory for each instead of the 2 GB that I wanted.
I’m getting 500 GB hard drives with each, and I’m seriously thinking about leaving 100 GB unpartitioned so I can go back and add a dual-boot Linux installation later on (if I can do that after-the-fact, I hope I can). I am not a big fan of bloatware, which is Microsloth’s specialty these days...I just want the OS to manage the computer, let me perform system tasks, and otherwise, stay the hell out of my way, eat up the fewest resources possible, and just WORK. Neither XP nor Vista really fit that bill.
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