Goodbye Windows XP
Apr 8, 2014, 10:34 am
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Goodbye Windows XP
Today marks the end of the road for the 12 year old OS. Yet by most accounts it still has triple the market share of Windows 8/8.1.
Who's still using XP, and do you have any plans to upgrade to Vista/7/8?
Who's still using XP, and do you have any plans to upgrade to Vista/7/8?
Apr 8, 2014, 11:00 am
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Apr 8, 2014, 2:58 pm
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We still have some XP boxes running in support of some Nortel equipment, Avaya's guidance is to migrate to Server 2003 but that seems like a waste of time and money just to face down the same issue next July.
Apr 8, 2014, 3:36 pm
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Realistically how many home users will swap because of the announcement?
I'm genuinely curious.
Do you think the less tech savvy will be 'scared' into upgrading and that the over-publicity of this event was for this very reason?
I'm genuinely curious.
Do you think the less tech savvy will be 'scared' into upgrading and that the over-publicity of this event was for this very reason?
Apr 8, 2014, 3:37 pm
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XP was the only version of Windows that I ever used, aside from a bit of NT4.0. I recall it being ungodly slow, bloated, and not at all user friendly, pretty much like all MS products. Thankfully, my employer supports Linux and MacOS machines.
Apr 8, 2014, 4:38 pm
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I have a net book that I have no plans to upgrade. It will be used for web surfing only, nothing financial will be done on it going forward.
Eyeing up the Samsung 12.1 tab to replace it for mobile browsing and replacing my Vista PC to Windows 8 - the more I play with it, the more I like it. Would have gone for a Surface, but like the Android ecosystem currently.
Hate the iplod I have for work. Talk about nanny state!! Yuck!
Eyeing up the Samsung 12.1 tab to replace it for mobile browsing and replacing my Vista PC to Windows 8 - the more I play with it, the more I like it. Would have gone for a Surface, but like the Android ecosystem currently.
Hate the iplod I have for work. Talk about nanny state!! Yuck!
Apr 8, 2014, 4:46 pm
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i would be, but my PC has been sitting for a few years with a dead power supply
similarly i have a mac sitting with dead power supply as well, it died more recently, and runs old version of osx
ill always prefer the older OS
similarly i have a mac sitting with dead power supply as well, it died more recently, and runs old version of osx
ill always prefer the older OS
Apr 8, 2014, 5:52 pm
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still running XP on my older laptop, I have the W8 upgrade disk sitting in a drawer (along with an 8GB RAM upgrade and a larger disk).
I still use XP at work as my main dev box, I have a faster Win7 box but that is mostly just runing some screens linked up with Synergy, I prefer actually using the XP machine.
(The Server 2012 R2 microserver at home is just confusing each time I jump on, for the jokes about 'start -> shutdown', how does 'mouse to invisible spot in corner, settings, then shutdown' make more sense?)
I still use XP at work as my main dev box, I have a faster Win7 box but that is mostly just runing some screens linked up with Synergy, I prefer actually using the XP machine.
(The Server 2012 R2 microserver at home is just confusing each time I jump on, for the jokes about 'start -> shutdown', how does 'mouse to invisible spot in corner, settings, then shutdown' make more sense?)