 jabarnutLight Years AwayPremium,MVM
join:2005-01-22
Galaxy M31
kudos:2 | reply to daveinpoway
Re: End of Windows XP support means beginning of security... I've never understood what all the fuss is about either.
Do people expect a lifetime of support for an operating system? 
That said, I sure wish they still had support for my machine running Windows 3.11 for workgroups. 
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| said by jabarnut:That said, I sure wish they still had support for my machine running Windows 3.11 for workgroups.
I'm frustrated at the lack of updates for Windows 3.0 on my powerhouse 386SX running at a blazing 20Mhz with a whole 2MB RAM. That 120MB hard drive that the guy told me would be enough to last me forever still has lots of space. I'm not quite sure why I've been having such a hard time finding floppy disks lately - most stores have stopped stocking them. Does anyone know why they would do this? I've occasionally seen the newer 3.5" disks, but not the 5.25" disks I'm used to using. I mean isn't amazing how much data those disks can hold?
I can't get that new thing running on it...what do they call it? The Interweb? World Wide Net? I did put in an AOL disk and the computer made a bunch of screeching sounds and a few pictures popped up over the next few minutes, line by line....
Seriously, 2014 is still two years out and that date has been known for years. I can't imagine that many legacy XP machines are still out there, I know in my work place our incompetent IT support has downgraded Windows Vista and 7 capable machines to XP and that causes nothing but problems.
There are many reasons why I'd want to go back to the early 2000's when XP was released, but it's time to move on people. |
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 ltsnowPremium
join:2006-04-08
Valdosta, GA
kudos:1 | Your point is well taken, but there is one flaw in your sarcasm and that is that XP still works very well with up-to-date technology. Not everything, of course, but enough that I plan to stay with XP until I absolutely have to stop. |
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join:2003-01-17
kudos:2 | reply to markf
OS is just an environment to run my applications, nothing less and nothing more. Those applications actually do some useful stuff for me, not the OS. I need computer to do my tasks, not to run the latest OS (as Windows vendor tries to make us to believe). If I can do what I need in the old environment, why I have to change that environment every several years? Just to go with lemmings, who may want to brag among peers that they have the latest and greatest?
Not to mention that the environment includes new Windows Explorer, which is much worse IMO, then Windows Explorer that I have in WXP. So, when I move to the new environment (W7), I have to replace the new WE with its substitutes, offering functionality of the old WE. And, BTW, I don't need from OS transparent menu and transparent window frames with thick borders... Believe me, it's not what I want or need from OS. On the other side, I need efficiency (fast and reliable), small footprint (on all computer resources - memory CPU, HD storage, etc), and ease of use. All that I already have in WXP.
So again, if I can run my useful tasks in that old environment, why I have to pay my money to update it now?
While I've asked those questions here as a consumer, corporations may have similar points on their RoI too
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ltsnowPremium
join:2006-04-08
Valdosta, GA
kudos:1 | Couldn't have said it better myself Ozo. I have spent years tinkering with the ins and outs of XP and I find it to be quite a miraculous OS. I have played a little with Windows 7 and it's OK, but I just love the simplicity, size, and functionality of XP. |
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OZOPremium
join:2003-01-17
kudos:2 | For simple tasks I run WXP in virtual machines with allocated HD space up to 2 GiB. Try to do that with W7... For serious projects I run WXP in 8GiB HD max. Then I can build a lot of projects with Visual Studio installed inside, including FreeSWITCH and others... I don't need any OS overhead associated with "prettiness" of transparent menu and aero window frames... The less resources that OS takes form my computers (while executing my tasks), the better...
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