Good Bye Old Friend ...XP !!!

[vostok]

M$ has announced the death of XP, despite reassurances from various governments that M$ has promised to keep civil servants in work ..? .govts have been paying M$ bucket loads to keep this OS alive, but the Gates gang intend to dump it on the 8 April 14. regardless of how many golden handshakes Bill has gained in the last ten years ...lol
I for one will be keeping my old and junky Pc's running XP till hell freezes over, considering some of the utter crap that has issued forth from the M$ corporation, since the original release of WinXP, about 14 years ago ...? lol
Just cause something is old ...don'r make it BAD ...Bill..?

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26884167

 

[heckler73]

How many tablets and dumbphones run XP, though?
That's the reason it's time to say bye to it.
It is an OS based on a fading hardware model. Instead of tweaking it, and trying to maintain legacy support, it is cheaper to abandon it (along with the 3 or 4 people using it) and start from scratch.

PROGRESS!!! SCIENCE!!! MARIJUANA NOOTROPICS!!!

 

[TryN]

I just use Linux. I have hated M$ since the days of MS-DOS lol

 

[Dunbar Santiago]

I just use Linux. I have hated M$ since the days of MS-DOS lol

Sheeeit, I'll never give up my Packard Bell 486 with vga graphics, soundblaster pro card, and 2800 baud modem. Can't beat it.

cd a:
install
cd c:\sierra\kq5
kq5

 

[SnapsProvolone]

Lol xcopy *. /s

 

[TryN]

Sheeeit, I'll never give up my Packard Bell 486 with vga graphics, soundblaster pro card, and 2800 baud modem. Can't beat it.

cd a:
install
cd c:\sierra\kq5
kq5

Haha ... Packard Bell ... 286/386/486 ... Overclocking ... Lol. Those were the days! ... I miss the modem call!

 

[BarnBuster]

XP is/was fine but I said that about 2000 also.

 

[Beefbisquit]

XP and Server 2003 and still pretty common in corporate settings.

XP was so stable.... But alas, it is missing a lot of features that the new MS OS's are...

 

[bilbo182]

Loved W7 64bit since the release candidate, can't beat 16gb of ram compared to the 3gb on XP! But that said I do miss playing with XP

 

[BarnBuster]

win7pro now on my pc's and it's not so bad

 

[Popcorn900]

Well I for one won't miss this seriously dated os. I am a big MS fan and I believe in progress not sitting in the dark age's and complaining that something doesn't work because I'm to lazy or stupid to upgrade lol.
R.I.P XP and good riddance.

 

[Cannabis.Is.Free]

Sorry but Microsoft is complete shit.

The best OS was and still will be XP

Windows 7 makes a good second
Windows 8 is a rehashed reskined W7
Windows Vista was a HUGE mistake
Anything before Windows 2000 was fine for its uses (Before computers became really common in households)

I remember building PCs from the ground up at age 14, it was a blast.
I was the only person on the block to have a computer, let alone almost 10.
I would build them from parts found in the garbage and make a huge profit reselling them.