Anyone still on Win XP SP2...?
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...either at home or work? It's being end-of-lifed[^] in a month, i.e., no more security updates for it or any version of IE on it.
Kevin
Yes and no. I was on SP2 until a few months ago, now it's XP SP3. And we still have no plans (from what I can tell) to move to Vista or Weven.
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Then you can look forward to receiving no security updates from next month onwards. :)
Kevin
No more impromptu reboot during the day because a patch silently install*!!! Cool :-D *****Does not append frequently but enough to remember V
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Amar Chaudhary wrote:
they have no plans to upgrade at all
Wonder how many companies will be surprised when they stop receiving updates if they're still on SP2 after next month?
Kevin
I don't think they will even care - there were a few reasons I left that company ;P
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My brother still is on Windows XP SP2.5. That is, a Windows XP SP2 installation where the SP3 setup crashed half-way. Surprisingly, the systems still works OK and he refuses to reinstall the OS. I upgraded both of my machines from Vista to Windows 7 in March. Last time I used XP was in 2006 (I was one of the few Vista users who thought it was OK). Usage Statistics of SharpDevelop 4.0, April+May 2010 (we released Beta 1 only yesterday, so all this data is from early adopters of our Alpha versions):
XP SP2: 3%
XP SP3: 20%
Server 2003/XP x64: 1%
Vista SP1: 5%
Vista SP2: 10%
Windows 7: 60%The remaining 1% is shared between Vista (no SP) and Windows 7 Release Candidate (WTF, didn't that expire before April 2010?).
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You mean that connecting to today's Internet with a 10 year old system is not crazy?
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You mean that connecting to today's Internet with a 10 year old system is not crazy?
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...either at home or work? It's being end-of-lifed[^] in a month, i.e., no more security updates for it or any version of IE on it.
Kevin
Only long enough install XP SP3 since I haven't been bothered to slipstream a new install CD yet... :-\ Flynn
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...either at home or work? It's being end-of-lifed[^] in a month, i.e., no more security updates for it or any version of IE on it.
Kevin
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
...either at home or work? It's being end-of-lifed[^] in a month, i.e., no more security updates for it or any version of IE on it.
I don't use it except for support of work. The project lead refuses to move from XP and absolutely refuses to allow anything other than XP as the official environment.... But I am long since Win7x64 at home and work, I use VM systems to support the Pl. :)
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...either at home or work? It's being end-of-lifed[^] in a month, i.e., no more security updates for it or any version of IE on it.
Kevin
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SP3 at work. 3.11 at home* ;P (*j/k)
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...either at home or work? It's being end-of-lifed[^] in a month, i.e., no more security updates for it or any version of IE on it.
Kevin
I'm using Windows XP SP2 x64 right now. :-D I used to have Vista x64 on this machine, but in the week that I had it, it BSOD'd at least 25 times... :doh: I think I may upgrade to Weven, but I may not...
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...either at home or work? It's being end-of-lifed[^] in a month, i.e., no more security updates for it or any version of IE on it.
Kevin
oh bother! i still use it quite a bit.. it's running as a VM image at the moment which i scraped off an old laptop that threatened to die on me. what can i say, the project (.net) has been going on for so long i didn't feel like upgrading everything and reinstalling everything... thing is: it just worked, and it's not broken... so why fix it? (although it looks like that's gonna change soon) ;P
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...either at home or work? It's being end-of-lifed[^] in a month, i.e., no more security updates for it or any version of IE on it.
Kevin
Under normal circumstances I would consider this question totally irrelevant. Then I tried to install VS2010 on the office dev machine, rejected, must have SP3 to install :sigh: . Over 6k machines in our organisation and all running xp sp2.
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...either at home or work? It's being end-of-lifed[^] in a month, i.e., no more security updates for it or any version of IE on it.
Kevin
I should be so lucky. We are still using Win2K!
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...either at home or work? It's being end-of-lifed[^] in a month, i.e., no more security updates for it or any version of IE on it.
Kevin
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...either at home or work? It's being end-of-lifed[^] in a month, i.e., no more security updates for it or any version of IE on it.
Kevin
Win Xp to the bitter end!
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oh bother! i still use it quite a bit.. it's running as a VM image at the moment which i scraped off an old laptop that threatened to die on me. what can i say, the project (.net) has been going on for so long i didn't feel like upgrading everything and reinstalling everything... thing is: it just worked, and it's not broken... so why fix it? (although it looks like that's gonna change soon) ;P
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homegrown wrote:
it's not broken... so why fix it?
I suppose if it's not connected to the internet there's no worry (or at least less worry).
Kevin
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Under normal circumstances I would consider this question totally irrelevant. Then I tried to install VS2010 on the office dev machine, rejected, must have SP3 to install :sigh: . Over 6k machines in our organisation and all running xp sp2.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Then I tried to install VS2010 on the office dev machine, rejected, must have SP3 to install
Yes, Microsoft generally force you to have the most patched versions of any prerequisites well before other vendors do. For the past few months pretty much any new app. from Microsoft has been mandating at least Win XP SP3. And some are now mandating Vista or higher. Coincidentally I was forced to apply SP3 after I needed to reinstall Windows for other reasons. I already knew that SP2 was being end-of-lifed so I just stuck on SP3 at that point. And then VS 2010 was released a couple of days later and that required it.
Kevin
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I should be so lucky. We are still using Win2K!
Member 2668901 wrote:
We are still using Win2K
That too is being end-of-lifed at the same time.
Kevin
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Win Xp to the bitter end!
Notice that my post is not about XP as such but specifically about XP SP2. SP3 will be supported for another 4 years. This is 3 years longer than XP as a whole should have been supported for but I guess they've extended it due to customer demand.
Kevin