Windows XP gets reprieve
Ancient OS refuses to die
MAKER OF STRANGE DECISIONS, Microsoft has announced it is to extend the life of Windows XP by five months. This means systems can be shipped with the venerable OS until the end of June next year.
XP was originally due to board the train to the gulag at the end of January 2008.
Microsoft claims it is pleased with the uptake of Vista, but the decision to keep XP hanging around a bit longer would appear to contradict that.
Some observers point to the different driver model used by Vista meaning that some old peripherals don't work under the new OS and that users are putting off upgrading due to the cost of buying shiny new printers and scanners that do have Vista drivers.
Others have called it an old dog.
Some system builders, including Dell and Lenovo, have reintroduced XP as an option. µ
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Ancient OS still kicking
Some of the computers at Texas Tech still use Pentium III. Man will it suck if they try to put Vista on that! XP is bad enough...MS has a stranglehold on us here, too, so Windows and Visual Studio and Office 2007 are our official tools of the computing classes, sans some upper level server management courses which play with linux.
Back on topic... don't think of XP as ancient, think of it as mature. Still "functional" with hardware and software compatibility out the wazoo.
XP Lives
It looks like M$ is finally waking up and realzing (despite the spin) that Vista has become ME II.I have ZERO plans to implement in the workplace, it doesn't nothing for us except increase the hardware requirements and DRM infect everything we do
How many more times...
How many more times is M$ going to have to extend the life of Windows XP? I can tell you, from a computer programmer, system administrator, computer repair man, gamer and home user's standpoint that I will not ever be downgrading my systems to Vista. Windows XP is lighter, faster and more versatile than Vista, and it is those things with a lot less of my system's resources. The only reason I'd ever be inclined to downgrade to Vista is for DX10, and since M$ can't get that right either (10.1 what?) I'll be sticking with XP.Microsoft: You had a good thing going with XP. It's lean, and I can optimize it to make it even leaner. I want to get the most out of the resources I have. Go back to the "more with less" idea and I'll consider another Microsoft product. I've already switched web browsers and office software (OpenOffice.org FTW!) Another year of crap (Vista) and I might just have to switch OSs too...
XP Longevity
But isn't "the customer is always right" ?Hehehe
I remember the days when our everyday machines could barely hold the weight of the then shiny WindowsXP systems, and we we wondering about how M$ managed yet again to hyper-load their system in terms of memory consumption, hard disk constant and irritating access and general bloatiness (when at the same time OS/2's Worklpace Shell needed a mere 8MB to run comfortably in a outdated machine CPU wise). Now....now we just take our blood back, with a super-duper machine of unspeakable specs, WinXP feels like air (spare its awful memory manager that insist of loading the page file despite the GBs of available memory)....Time change Bill...... :)Still there ...
Hey!:I'm still using W2000 Pro SP4 and quite happy with it, if being 'happy' with this stuff is at all possible.
Next 'upgrade'?
One of the Linux distros out there, probably Ubuntu.
Cheers,
CIV
I'll have 95 back
I'm not a programmer or a it person, but since upgrading to vista i've had a hell of a lot let less crashes, and everything seems to run heaps smoother. It's a good plan to keep xp around for a bit longer, most of my mates won't upgrade because of lack of drivers for there hardwareI don't like M$
More than ten years ago, it took less than 100MB to install M$ Office. Now, it takes giga bytes to install a Office 2007. However, I am still doing exactly the same things on Words - type and print. I don't see any benefit from it, excpet heavy loading, and perhaps slower speed. Ten years ago, people can easily do WWW on a 100mhz/32MB pentium, but today, I am still doing WWW but with a 3Ghz dual core/2GB system. I can't feel any differeces.What we need...
is an improved XP. One that handles more memory and bigger hard drives. One that fixes all the memory leak problems and other stuff we've all come to know and love(like a sharp stick...).makes sense...
xp had the same problem, all the pretty graphics, animations, etc...with vista, we can all turn this junk off as well (for the most part), but it still isn't like it should be.... other OS vendors seem to be a bit better n i've not had all that much experience... but on some of the older systems, i've run newer OSes n they do much better...whereas a new system running vista...pft..........Kasey D...
That's just MS-hater talking there (as allways in this site but i read others too...). How about actually trying it first. Because that's ridiculous :D. For me with (e6400@3.2, 7800gt, 4gb ram, sataraid system) Vista is much faster then XP. Also, if you want to install XP on raid that's really a pain in the ass. You need a 100-year-old floppy drive (if you don't know how to modify installation cd). Vista has those drivers allready, working automatically. And it supports any media you can find during the installation. Vista's recovery works. Pressing ctrl+alt+del works almost allways (if something crashes in xp you usually must press reset). Vista installation takes only half the time then xp. Vista's search is eh, 10 times faster? In Vista, webpages loads much faster. If something crashes, the whole computer won't crash. Vista tell you clearly what's wrong with it. And why the hell you even should buy Vista to an old computer? That's stupid. And that is what you do. You make it look slow with old computers and don't buy it for new ones? With new ones, it's right call to take Vista. You really want to buy xp now and after a year from now buy vista because you don't have a choise? Wow... MS-hater makes people buy two operating systems...What with the way
Micro$oft keeps on *improving* *cough* things with *Gack* Vista, they'll have to use a crowbar to prize Xp-Pro from my cold, dead fingers!XP
(Windows XP) It's better then a sharp stick in the eye. don't have Vista and with everthing i've read about it, i won't get it.