Meh. 'Trust m$'... M$ & 'support' have never belonged being used in the same statement of any kind. To trust M$ is a foolishness I could never commit to because that gang is sneaky & dishonest to the max. I have never been able to forget that it is they who were the ORIGINAL inventors of the very 'piracy' that they cry so many BIG crocodile tears about all the time. (Anyone who buys their nonsensical threats may find themselves also buying stuff from TV 800 numbers and then wondering why they ever did that later on...) XP SP2 was the end of their presence for this user - SP3 was more trouble than it was worth. Allowing automatic 'updates' always seemed like painting a target on one's PC to me. I got a used netbook with 7 starter ed. and it is just nasty - and much as I know I should I have not been able to bring myself to install & try a better version of 7 yet. (Maybe I'll do it around the time w-10 comes out...no hurry here !!)
very interesting... reading news.. 5 municipalities here in holland with 6000 xp machines each are negotiating with m$ about updates.. would never have thought that m$ would bother... but if fix those machines, support continues.. have Always thought that m$ created a monster, too many companies running too expensive software, that will never run on w7. let alone 8
Yep. All but one of my virtual machines are XP. And since I have several archived copies, if one gets borked I just copy the archived copy back to the working folder. I'm actually looking forward to no more XP updates. At that point all my XP virtual machines will be never have to be updated again.
Anyone ever read the fine print of a Microsoft licensing agreement? 1 - You don't own their software, they do. 2 - If it doesn't work like you thought, they are not responsible. 3 - If you lose time, they are not responsible. 4 - If you lose data, they are not responsible. 5 - If you lose money, they are not responsible. In that context, one could argue that Microsoft has never supported any of their products.
It's funny how they get away with that?? Now apply those facts to that new car you bought. Would you buy that car again
Wrong! They do support their products. Now if you had said they don't have any faith in their products, that would be different.
I have looked through the thread, but did not find what I was looking for. Please forgive it is there already, but I did not see it: My 84year old mother in law is using my old computer which has XP Sp3 installed. I would like to update it as much as possible, but as she is japanese and the XP is also japanese, I cannot read what to do... I want to download a "patch" to this Win7 computer and transfer it using USB to her computer. What "patch" do I use, please? THank you-
you can always install Windows 7 ultimate on her machine in Japanese mode, then "blindly" switching to English in audit mode or after you created a user profile, do all the installs/configing you need to do, then switch it back to japanese so she can use it that is what I do all the time to setup machines people request to not be in english you can find out how to make your own multi-language Windows 7 disc in one of the threads here, or you can also just get a Japanese Windows 7 Ultimate ISO and use that... all of the non-English Windows does come with the English language pack IIRC, but you can only use it if you install Ultimate edition
Hi There, My friend Still Has an Old Celeron Laptop With 512MB RAM. He Asked Me to Get Him a Fully Updated (Last Updates Too) Copy of XP. Thus, I Was Wondering if Anyone is Volunteering to Provide Me an Updated Copy (VL Editon Preferably). Thank You to All in Advance.
Final XP updates will be released later today, as for KB numbers we will find out in the near future!
Considering that Windows XP users still outnumber Windows 8 users by an appreciable margin, it's pretty safe to say that Microsoft's choice to cease support for WinXP is a huge mistake.
12 years is a long time to support a legacy OS when there are other newer better OS's to choose from, just because people are too pig headed / scared / tight to update, doesn't mean MS need to waste their time and effort keeping a dead OS updated, they want to spend their money time and energy keeping todays OSs updated and running well instead of wasting their time on something that should have been kicked over 2 years ago
Will today's "End of support of Windows XP" also coincide with a MDL "End of support for End of support of Windows XP polls and threads"?
Good. I'm now triple booting Win 7, 8.1 and XPx64 and find myself dipping into XP more than I imagined. Looking forward to the first "Beginning of support of Windows XP post 4/8/2014" thread.