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
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
<>< :: have the courage to use your own reason
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
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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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...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
8 out of 10 systems at home are still running XP. 1 Vista and 1 Win7. All except one at work runs XP and that one oddball is running Win7 I paid for myself. It will take winning the Lottery before management will see the need to upgrade since everything is still "working."
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11
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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, both of my workstations in my home office as well as my laptop are still using XP-SP2. And my server is still Windows Server 2003. So far these OSs have maintained their stability for what I do (a lot of development and project work), so why change? At some point I'll upgrade to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 but right now I just don't have the time...
Steve Naidamast Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@ix.netcom.com
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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
We have a dedicated computer here that we've been using for well over 12 years that is still running Win2K. It is connected to the internet - but very little surfing is done on it. Maybe an occasional Google search for a product price or something. But it's days are numbered since I just received notice from one of our software vendors that they are dropping support for Win2K this year. Bummer. But I guess I got my money's worth out of it. So I can't complain. As for XP - heck ya! Have several laptops running XP with no plans (or desire) to upgrade. The day will come, but not today. But again - all of these systems are dedicated to running specific software for specific tasks. And web surfing is not one of those tasks. They are rarely even connected to the internet. But.....on my desktop that I use every day for code development and web surfing? Not on your life! It's 64 bit Win7.
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8 out of 10 systems at home are still running XP. 1 Vista and 1 Win7. All except one at work runs XP and that one oddball is running Win7 I paid for myself. It will take winning the Lottery before management will see the need to upgrade since everything is still "working."
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11
BrainiacV wrote:
It will take winning the Lottery before management will see the need to upgrade since everything is still "working."
But are they running XP SP2 or SP3? It's only SP2 that's being end-of-lifed.
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
Microsoft has locked me in to XP SP2 against my will. They won't let me install SP3. Last time I tried, it was some complaint about a patch they think I'd installed. The resolution was to uninstall the patch and try again. I did, SP3 still wouldn't instal.. for the same reason -- they wanted me to uninstall the (now uninstalled) patch. That's kind of hard to do, so I gave up. Welcome to the Wonderful World of Wicrosoft. Its not all bad, at least we know our software still runs on XP SP2. We still have systems out there that run XP SP2 and will probably stay there for a good long while since they don't get connected to the Internet.. ever.
patbob
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Yes, both of my workstations in my home office as well as my laptop are still using XP-SP2. And my server is still Windows Server 2003. So far these OSs have maintained their stability for what I do (a lot of development and project work), so why change? At some point I'll upgrade to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 but right now I just don't have the time...
Steve Naidamast Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@ix.netcom.com
Steve Naidamast wrote:
So far these OSs have maintained their stability for what I do (a lot of development and project work), so why change?
If you plan to move to VS 2010/.NET 4 before upgrading to Win 7 you'll need XP SP3.
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
Yes! We are a global, multi-national, multi-billion dollar industry in the food sector. I have one of the more advanced machines running Win XP sp2 (tablet edition), with many of my co-workers still using Win 2K. Our company is currently going through a upgrade to - get this - Vista! :wtf: When my company was purchased by this bigger organization 8 years ago, we were on the cusp of upgrading to XP. They caught us about a month before the release and told us to wait because they wanted standardized systems and they were planning an upgrade. Eight years later we are almost getting ready to probably upgrade to a currently out-of-date OS. Does anyone know why I still work here? :confused:
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Steve Naidamast wrote:
So far these OSs have maintained their stability for what I do (a lot of development and project work), so why change?
If you plan to move to VS 2010/.NET 4 before upgrading to Win 7 you'll need XP SP3.
Kevin
Kevin... Thanks for the "heads up"... I have all the software downloaded from my MSDN subscription but again have had no time to start tinkering with it. I have too many development projects on my plate both at work and at home...
Steve Naidamast Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@ix.netcom.com
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Yes! We are a global, multi-national, multi-billion dollar industry in the food sector. I have one of the more advanced machines running Win XP sp2 (tablet edition), with many of my co-workers still using Win 2K. Our company is currently going through a upgrade to - get this - Vista! :wtf: When my company was purchased by this bigger organization 8 years ago, we were on the cusp of upgrading to XP. They caught us about a month before the release and told us to wait because they wanted standardized systems and they were planning an upgrade. Eight years later we are almost getting ready to probably upgrade to a currently out-of-date OS. Does anyone know why I still work here? :confused:
dhoogsteen wrote:
Eight years later we are almost getting ready to probably upgrade to a currently out-of-date OS
I remember once reading about some division of British Gas upgrading from DOS to Windows 2000 and Office 2000 in about 2001. But at least there was no later version of Windows at the time.
Kevin
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BrainiacV wrote:
It will take winning the Lottery before management will see the need to upgrade since everything is still "working."
But are they running XP SP2 or SP3? It's only SP2 that's being end-of-lifed.
Kevin
I believe we're running SP3, but it won't matter. Until I took over here as software development manager 2 years ago, they were still using InterDev. I had to purchase VS2K3 myself to get them in a better world. Later it took arm twisting on a project that management wanted to finally move to VS2K8.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11