Va te faire foutre, Microsoft.......

[marmar]

......I like XP.


TIME is finally running out for the 500m or so people around the world who still rely on Windows XP to perform their daily computing chores. In less than a year, Microsoft will leave them—your correspondent included—to fend for themselves. There will be no more security patches, bug fixes and free (or even paid) online assistance, as the firm ends its extended support for this operating system four years after it ceased offering mainstream support for the product. From April 8th next year, anyone who continues to use Windows XP will be at the mercy of hackers who find fresh ways to exploit vulnerabilities in the 12-year-old operating system and applications that run on it.

Windows XP (for “eXPerience”) was launched in 2001. It went on to became the most popular operating system ever, with more than 800m users. Though it hails from three generations ago (having been officially replaced by Windows Vista in 2007, Windows 7 in 2009 and Windows 8 in 2012), it still runs on 39% of computers currently in use. Only in the past six months has Windows 7 displaced it as the most popular operating system in use today, with 45% of the installed base.

What made Windows XP such a success was the way it combined the user-friendliness of a consumer product like Windows 95 with the industrial strength of Windows NT, an operating system built for professional users. As such, XP was the first version of Windows capable of being used with equal ease in business and at home. It remained popular long after it should have been pensioned off because its replacement, Windows Vista, was such a disaster. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-to-cut-windows-xp-2013-4

[BlueJazz]

1. One of the problems...not necessarily for the average consumer...is the fact that..

...some of the newest audio and professional video programs won't work on XP.

...and since few people use the 64 bit version, a good amount of your memory is going to waste....in modern computers.

[bemildred]

2. The fact that those things don't work is a policy decision. i.e. M$ decided to make it not work. nt

[BlueJazz]

6. What you say is true. The exception might? be that the 3.4 (Is that right?) limitation on memory can

...be a problem when editing video on a very large screen.
I edit on a 36" monitor and I can suck up the memory buffer big time.

Having said all this, I love and still love XP and for the average consumer it's more than enough for doing just about anything.

[bemildred]

10. That is easiiy fixed if you have the memory in the first place.

But I do hear what you are saying, movies suck memory in large gulps. The basic problem M$ has with it's OS is that it has hopelessly mixed it up with it's applications side, mostly for marketing purposes and much of it long ago. If you want robust and easily expandable systems, you have to keep separate things separate, operating services separate from application services, etc., it gets quite messy enough even if you do.

[hobbit709]

3. I know someone with an old laptop with Win 95.

It does what she wants and she'll keep using it until it dies.

XP will not magically stop working just because the updates stop coming. In fact, it may work better. I use 8 of all the updates and fixes on mine and have no problem.
I use XP X64 on one computer-works fine.

[El Fuego]

4. I long for the days of XP. Windows 8 is a FREAKIN' nightmare.

It's primarily meant for a iPad touch type-tablet. On a desktop or non-touchscreen laptop where you are running PC applications, it makes your computer almost unusable.

I finally installed third party fixes to make it act like Windows 7 (so I can actually use the computer). But it's still a struggle.

[Xolodno]

5. As someone who builds his own PC's for serious gaming power....the advice I....

...always give to new PC builders is....

NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER buy the "next great hyped thing" from microsoft....ever!!! If you do, you are the beta tester paying them!

Vista sucked...oh and how about that, 7 was what Vista was supposed to be. Oh and Office 2007 sucked too...but *gasp* Office 2010 was what 2007 should have been.

Give them a year or two and Microsoft will have Microsoft 9!!! Or if the naming convention gets old, Microsoft "Touch" or some other marketing ploy name. And it will be what 8 should have been.

[SoCalDem]

7. I paid extra to get a new Toshiba that still had XP

It came with 7, in case I wanted it.. I didn't and still don't..dammit

8 looks like crap.. I guess I'll have to update to 7 after all

[dionysus]

9. i've not had any problems with 7... and i ran win 98 until 2006.

never had any problems with XP or 7.

[BlueJazz]

8. Unless you're a poor slob like me (A tech who does home service).

I HAVE to learn the newest OP (like Win 8) so customers can get an answer when they ask:
"How do I turn the fucking thing off!"