A company where I worked has still the automated scale, which controls each box before the final shipment, that still runs thanks to an Apple II and a dedicated addon card, be sure that XP will last "forever" on vertical applications.
Other than being slow, there is no problem with it. I can see in every hospital that almost all of them still use XP, so it must be healthy Usually all you need to do is put in some bigger RAM and it will run on Win 7 and be faster.
Yep, time to time.... Had a old scanner that was working perfectly but, no x64 support, so had a VM with XP to run the scanner till it died about a month ago, still have a clean VM RAR'ed up in case I need it. I still keep an active XP vm, just in case and it still works great for old DOS games... XP was a great OS for it's day... Now Windows 7 is what XP was... That old stable OS, that still runs everything but, does not deal with all the BS as Windows 10/8.1 has. Truth be told, WIndows 7 x32 machines/vm has replaced what XP used to do for me... Some older stuff/programs just have problems on x64...
@Stannieman I think that dude is most smart and expert ever using it no kidding (with exceptions of course), although M$ never made another O.S. as Windows XP simply the more inteligent, beautiful and with little problems on it simple to solve remember your help section is fantastic objetive; today with Windows 10 hmm
@ThomasMann, yay I agree here in my country I can see several departments of Governs still use Windows XP, including hospitals little enterprises I never stay tired of tell that Windows XP is one O.S. in state of art in general terms
Yes, it's still widely used, predominantly on old (more than 5 years) PCs with old software, as well as on POS-systems, medical equipment, production equipment and so on.
Yes and will probably for years to come.Perfect for old hardware with less ram. It runs very fast compared to 7,8,10 on older hardware and still supports all of the software I need to run. I can't say that for 8 or 10.
My last Core 2 Duo desktop machine was upgraded to Windows 7 Pro 32 bit a few months ago. It runs better on Win 7 than it ever did on XP Pro. I tried upgrading another XP machine to Win 7 with a Celeron single-core processor that didn't go over very well. It stumbled and stammered every time I tried using it. I downgraded it Windows Vista and it is running very well. Again, better than it did with XP. Don't get me wrong, I loved XP and ran six machines on the Pro version for years after Vista and Windows 7 was released. But it's time is over on my machines. I can't bring myself to throw away the discs though.
Except for this $100 tablet of mine (read disposable Windows 10 computer), I never bought a computer that didn't have drivers for XP b/c I plan on running it for another good decade or two. Sure, Firefox stopped supporting XP recently, but that latest version won't become obsolete until a few more years. And I can always run a Linux VM inside XP if I ever need a newer FireFox version...
I actually am using Windows 7 SP1 on my ancient PC from 2001 (origionally with XP Pro). It already had an Intel Pentium 4 on one of the first socket 775, and the max ram the Motherboard can handle is 4GB of ram. Windows 7 runs prety damn smooth on it considering the fact that it is now 16 years old. i actually also (somehow) managed to get Windows 8.1 installed on it as well, but i hated Windows 8, so i went back to Windows 7. Now of course it cant run a x64 bit operating system,but it will run x86 just fine. now of course this PC hasnt been my daily driver since about 2009, but it serves its purpose as a back up PC... only thing i did with it is upgrade it from 512 MB of ram to 4gb of ram, and take a used graphics card out of a newer machine (because i put a newer Nvidia in that one) and installed it in this old Piece of crap. it even supports Windows Aero Experience now that i did that.
Still using XP (32 bit) on a 10 yr old tower. Got it originally as a "bare bones" system & threw my HDD in it. Been working great ever since (actually I recently put in a new NIC and tripled by transfer speed - the old one was from around "97 or so). Might have considered upgrading it to Win 7 if it was 64-bit but really no point to it.