Sorry, actually i meant for 10 or 9 years . What did i write without even thinking , thanks for bringing that up, or their would be a lot of people thinking me as wise guy. haha..... You do go through the threads/reply of others do you...
I had win7 installed on the Eee PC Ive been playing with. I now have Win8Ent on it and it is surprisingly much faster than Win7 was. The poor thing runs 900mhz celeron with 1gb mem. The only major issue is the graphics. The machine is only capable of 1024x600 and Win8 apps need 1024x768 minimum. I tried using the Display1_DownScalingEnabled with no luck. But XP is just about perfect for the lil'bugger. Win8 is on it, just because lol
I was suprised at the poll at how many people plan to continue to use XP. Everyone I deal with I recommend they upgrade simply because most end users don't know enough to track security holes, etc... that may pop up in the future after EOL. Personally I ditched XP a long time ago. I would be curious if anyone will be tracking OS usage after the EOL for XP, but I wouldn't be suprised to see a lot of XP Computers still in use. I remember when 98 went EOL and people were still using it with no plans to upgrade.
But I would have voted yes. And I just recommended my 84 year old dad to continue using XP, or, if he needs another computer, use Linux or Apple.
My video camera doesn't like Win7, so on my desktop PC I have WinXP Pro SP3 and I love it. I'll still be using it on this PC until this PC will die on me.
Apart from virtual machines, I won't be using it. I was able to upgrade my old laptop's RAM from 256 MB to 1 GB, and install Windows 7 on it. Although it doesn't support Windows Aero, it seems to run 7 faster than XP (XP still run slowly after the RAM upgrade).
Well,IMO ,XP won't die down easily for Enterprise Appliacations . Software like IBM Maximo ,Oracle 10g Dev suite ,etc . were designed for XP .Since most people at my workplace don't even know that an XP mode exists in Windows 7 ,they are not bothered on getting a new system formatted with it . End of support can just not deter people to stop using it ,unless company's IT make an aggressive push to stop .
I voted yes, I'm skilled at security and don't get onto those dangerous websites plus I have protection. I did however make the mistake of trying the directx 10 for xp pre fix 3. It didn't work and caused issues with net framework. Long story short, I fixed it and I'm okay again. DX9 is good enough for me anyway with my gpu which is an ati radeon hd 4200 so any dx10 game would really not run the best anyway with it. Now if I were to buy a Sager gaming laptop with 2gb of Vram and yes I'd use win7 for DX10. But this laptop I have now is more faster running winxp then win7. So I do not plan on changing it, I've already been through the cycle of vista, 7, 8, linux mint, and back to XP now. And believe me, if Linux had better Directx 9 and 10 support than I would of stayed with it since its an amazing OS. Anyway, yeah Xp is best, if someone could just port DX10 to it then I would still use it when I do buy that 1000$ Sager gaming laptop.
I haven't used Windows XP since 2011. New programs already have or will soon drop support for Windows XP. Come on, people. It's a really old operating system. Time to move on! Update to Windows 7.
exactly. Plus XP cannot make use of more than 3.2 GB RAM and sucks at utilizing multi-core CPUs. It's just an outdated OS that served its time well. Time to move on. And the XP 64-Bit is a rubbish OS which was not completely baked anyway
Honestly, OS is NOT important. It is what one gets out of it. If it does all that one wants then it is a good OS. And it makes no difference if it is Windows, Linux, OS X or whatever! And not defending anything, but XP was brilliant OS, easy to manage, with lots of old software that runs perfectly fine on it, but will NOT on later versions (some software, especially education can NOT be upgraded, because no upgrades were produced and often the original company does not exist any longer) So geekines aside, not necessary all never must be better sebus
I guess I will use Windows XP in one of my computers, where I maintain legacy software. In other computers I will use newer Windows. Today I use Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8 (in different computers). I guess I will continue this also in 2014, but don't know after that. If Microsoft releases a Windows 9, and it is very good, I will probably change Windows 8 to the new Windows 9.
I agree with you. But one thing that worries me is that if Microsoft ends the security updates for Windows XP, the risk of getting virus / malware may increase a lot. So after 2014 it can be dangerous to have Windows XP connected to the Internet.