Windows XP continues to be the operating system that just won't die
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http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/windows-xp-continues-to-be-the-operating-system-that-just-wont-die/4916[^]
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's got until 2014 (I think April) before it falls out of support so I expect it to be around for some time yet.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/window-on-windows/windows-xp-continues-to-be-the-operating-system-that-just-wont-die/4916[^]
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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It's got until 2014 (I think April) before it falls out of support so I expect it to be around for some time yet.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Henry Minute wrote:
It's got until 2014
Yeah!
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We need a new icon: police sirens.
Martin Fowler wrote:
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Please - no audio icons! A flashing blue light is one thing...
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together. Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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So this means that Microsoft did either a really good job with XP or a really bad job with what came after.... Personally, I hated Vista but now actually like win7... So I'm slowly changing over...
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It's got until 2014 (I think April) before it falls out of support so I expect it to be around for some time yet.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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My last PC purchase came with a downgrade license to XP (bought it last fall or winter) and I could of swore I read somewhere that my XP license was good until 2020 before I would be forced to use the Windows 7 OS disk that also came with it.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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My last PC purchase came with a downgrade license to XP (bought it last fall or winter) and I could of swore I read somewhere that my XP license was good until 2020 before I would be forced to use the Windows 7 OS disk that also came with it.
I'd guess that's when they turn off the downgrade validation check server; support ends in 2014.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
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Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Dan's is a reasonable suggestion, although why they would allow a downgrade after support has ceased beats me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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My XP install at home has been getting increasingly unstable. I've had more blue screens this summer than in an comparable period of time. I've concluded that driver writers, especially NVidia and AMD are concentrating on Windows 7 64-bit drivers on multi-core CPUs. (By contrast, both my daughters' laptops running Windows 7 64 are rock solid stable as it my work system.)
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Dan's is a reasonable suggestion, although why they would allow a downgrade after support has ceased beats me.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
The same reason they don't make unsupported software go poof. You're a loon if you have it on the internet; but for disconnected boxes (especially the embedded sort) it's not an immediate crisis.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
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The same reason they don't make unsupported software go poof. You're a loon if you have it on the internet; but for disconnected boxes (especially the embedded sort) it's not an immediate crisis.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
Right, that makes sense.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
