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?

We are. No plans to upgrade. Will replace the hardware when the performance is unsatisfactory.

It was a lovely OS. Many fond memories! Haven't used it for a while, but sorry to see it go nevertheless.

I must say I'm not a fan of 8!

Replaced XP on my wife's old Dell last weekend with Linux Mint. Wished I'd done it years ago - lots faster.

I mourned the day I had to migrate from W2K to XP. I still enjoy W7 on my desktop, but prefer W8.1 on my touchscreen laptop.

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.

Still using XP on PCs. Dislike Windows 8. Honestly don't like touch screens. Trained as a typist more years ago than I care to remember in another life.

Our 6 year old netbook running XP was just traded-in at Best Buy for $100 credit.

The credit was immediately used to by a new Lenovo Yoga 2.

Doing the setup now.

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?

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.

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!

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

Me
 

Got an ancient computer I still use for email and such...it is going to get Linux Mint...

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?)

Same here. It seemed to work really well. After that I switched to a Mac.