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Obituary: Windows XP passes away, leaving behind millions of mourning supporters
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| 4-8-2014
Posted on 04/08/2014 11:51:45 AM PDT by deoetdoctrinae
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To: Tennessee Nana
Yep. They came and took away my XP box and left a Windows 7 box in it’s place. I’m struggling.
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:01:50 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: deoetdoctrinae
I worked in a shop that used 98 a while ago. When we upgraded to NT based Win2k, one huge problem went away: Memory leaks. I HAD to reboot my 98 machine every two days at the absolute least. You could actually watch the memory drop as you opened word, closed it, opened it and closed it. Each time you started with less memory than the last time.
Ever since Win2k I’ve liked every other release. And one of my recording desktops with Win2k, Sonar version 1 and Winamp is a workhorse to this day. Got it back in the late 1990’s.
To: HiTech RedNeck
They can keep using the old boxes if they want. It’s not like MS is going remote delete the OS from them. But it’s a 13 year old OS, it was gonna get EOLed eventually, should have been a while ago.
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:03:52 PM PDT
by
discostu
(Call it collect, call it direct, call it TODAY!)
To: HiTech RedNeck
This looks like a great opportunity for Linux. Some of them, like the *buntus, make it easy for you to turn your Windows XP into an optionally bootable partition.
Now, that’s a thought!
To: Sarah Barracuda
It wont stop running you can still use it..you just wont get anymore patches or tech support for it..basically your on your own if something goes wrong with the OS
So it’s like driving a car after the warrantee expires...
To: deoetdoctrinae
If you like your XP, you can keep your XP...............
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:06:02 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:07:32 PM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: discostu
Being closed source it’s a little different from, say, a UNIX being obsoleted.
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:08:27 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: Tennessee Nana
Clippy is dead....................
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:08:49 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: dhs12345
And if the computers are not modern enough, they might not be able to run the crappy Window 8.1. 8.1 is a better version of Windows 7. All a person has to do is set it up to use the desktop by default.
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:09:55 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: cuban leaf
Well except if it blows a piston you won’t be able to get a third party one to replace it with when Microsoft has discontinued parts.
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:09:57 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: deoetdoctrinae
Big whoop, if I read stuff correctly, it is IE that is most vulnerable and I never use that.
Regardless, I am leaving my well loaded XP machine as a tool to use disconnected from the internet. There are uses for computers beyond websurfing and email, believe it or not.
My new Win 7 machine fills in for the rest and may grow in capability slowly.
To: deoetdoctrinae
(s)but there will always be windows 3.1 (/s)
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:11:14 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: fwdude; cuban leaf
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:11:23 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: deoetdoctrinae
I neither.
Anyway, a pretty witty article. Needed the chuckle.
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:11:31 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: longtermmemmory
Believe it or not, we still have a computer here at work that uses 3.1....................................
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:12:04 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Well except if it blows a piston you wont be able to get a third party one to replace it with when Microsoft has discontinued parts.
Yeah, but it’s so cheap that if it ever does, that is when I can replace it. :-P
To: deoetdoctrinae
Got one in back of me.................
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:12:43 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
To: cuban leaf
Why would anyone want to exploit holes in XP at this point. Not enough machines to bother with. You'd be surprised.
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posted on
04/08/2014 12:14:17 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: cuban leaf
Basically yeah..or when your PC warranty expires.
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