Posted on 04/08/2014 11:51:45 AM PDT by deoetdoctrinae
Windows XP, Microsoft Corp.s beloved seventh major operating system and arguably the companys most successful, was left to perish on Tuesday at its creators hands. It was 12 years, seven months old.
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Windows XPs funeral, a private ceremony held deep within Microsoft, was quiet. In lieu of flowers, Microsoft urged customers to donate to Windows 8, one of Windows XPs grandchildren.
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Yep. They came and took away my XP box and left a Windows 7 box in it’s place. I’m struggling.
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.
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.
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.
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
If you like your XP, you can keep your XP...............
Being closed source it’s a little different from, say, a UNIX being obsoleted.
Clippy is dead....................
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.
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.
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.
(s)but there will always be windows 3.1 (/s)
I neither.
Anyway, a pretty witty article. Needed the chuckle.
Believe it or not, we still have a computer here at work that uses 3.1....................................
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.
Got one in back of me.................
You'd be surprised.
Basically yeah..or when your PC warranty expires.
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