Happy Birthday! Windows XP is 10 Years Old Today

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[citation][nom]neon871[/nom]win 7 will run win XP software in XP mode for those who don't now that!I forced my print server drive to run in XP mode on Win 7 (32bit) and they worked fine, but I couldn't get them to work on my win 7 (64bit) so even this is not 100% compatable. try the link below to down load win XP mode. Hope this helps some of you!http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US [...] ws-xp-mode[/citation]
Not everything works correctly in XP mode... Things like Oracle drivers and weird networked 'cloud' softwares don't play nice with VMs...
 
Happy B Day Win XP!

I still have a 10 year old PC running XP sp3 as a back up to my new Win 7 PC


I agree that XP was not the greatest until SP2.

I give Micro Soft a lot of praise as far as the consumer goes because it was noble of them to continue to support XP until 2014. Honestly, how many businesses can you say that about? They could have easily just told folks no more support for XP years ago.

For all the complaints about MS there are far more businesses that are much less worthy of your dollar....like Apple.
 
[citation][nom]CaedenV[/nom]Anyone remember back in the 2K/XP days? Win2K was just beginning to really gain ground and then this 'cartooney' 'child's play thing' which was a total resource hog was released. It broke several networks because it was the first attempt at a 'secure' networking infrastructure (meaning it plugged a bunch of holes which people used as features).I remember holding on to win2K for years because it was the difference between being able to do video editing, and not. Plus the driver issues with XP were awful!All that said, by SP2 it was a great OS that was rock solid, and the defacto standard to PCs until win7 came out. And even now it is a question of taste. The XP fans love the small resource footprint, while the win7 fans love the modern support it brings (and the pretty interface). XP is still great (I use it fairly often), but it is quickly loosing relevance in an ever changing world.[/citation]
you've put it well , absolutely agreed :)
 
I still have a computer with xp on it that i still use, (less often as i use my laptop with better performance now), and my parents buisness had 2 computers with xp, it was a great OS and still is for many things. Happy B-day XP, everyone with a brain loves you.
 
[citation][nom]dextermat[/nom]yeah and I still use it: dual boot xp and 7 xp FTW[/citation]
should have got yourself Win7 Pro, then you get XP mode. No more dual booting because you now have to restart every time you want to use a particular OS. With 7 and XP mode, you get both OS side by side and your finger tips. Now that's WIN!
 
Anybody acting like XP was awesome from day 1 clearly doesn't remember it. It was a total BSOD-fest in the beginning, it didn't really hit it's stride until after Service Pack 1. Check it out:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324720

Notice how many hardware crashes were actually Window's fault? Think about that next time you blame device manufacturers for shoddy support of W7, and especially 64 bit.
 
Win XP has been great and still is really the only reason to upgrade from it is to go 64bit upgrade to 32 bit is just making MS money with some pretty visuals and security settings that are half useless and in some cases make it harder to work on the computer!
 
I'll always view XP as the child of Windows ME and Window 2000. Windows ME was half-baked, but it did have a lot of features which are standard today like system restore points, universal plug and play and automatic updates.
 
[citation][nom]cookoy[/nom]Will MS be this generous again supporting an OS for 12-1/2 years? Or they'd want you to upgrade every 2-3 years.[/citation]
I doubt they expected to support XP for this long, it just happened to last long and Vista just forced them to go longer, only now is Windows 7 allowing them to kill off XP.
 
XP is one of the most stable operating systems ever released by MS.... Finally with Win 7 we have something as good, bu everything in between has been junk compared to XP.
 
I remember buying it the day it came out... and being completely impressed with it right off the bat, despite a few driver issues that faded very quickly.
 
for what most people do, windows xp still meets their needs.

Also in order to see which OS is truly more popular, you need to compare the retail sales of the OS and not what comes preinstalled.

Microsoft could start putting windows ME on all new computers built and you will see market share hit vista levels or even windows 7. This is due to how many people actually build PC's and how many just buy what ever is sold in the store.

When you go to buy a dell or some other random brand, you generally don't have a choice of picking if you want windows xp or windows 7 or windows vista. They simply give you windows 7 which automatically adds to their market share of windows 7 but it doesn't represent a want for the OS.

Also consider just because a lot of people have something, does not mean that people actually like it. (refer to my scenario of Microsoft making new PC's come with windows ME)

 
[citation][nom]leandrodafontoura[/nom]Does virtualization in 7 of XP, activates EAX games?[/citation]


Nope it does not. Microsoft got rid of the HAL so you lose a lot of sound features, especially if you have a older sound card like an Audigy 2 or audigy 4, you lose your eax features, you lose your global sound enhancements

Sound quality becomes much worst as the sound card is mostly acting as a passthrough

the virtual machine is also not for gaming as it does not have much hardware acceleration

it is designed for simple programs that don't require a lot of CPU, GPU, or memory
 
I'm at work now, running XP SP3 on a low-end rig with 448MB usable RAM. It works fine. Upgrading implies costs so there's no reason to move to Vista or 7.
 
[citation][nom]mavroxur[/nom]Unfortunately, several software companies have yet to update their products to support Windows Vista/7. And due to that lack of support, corporate America has held on to Windows XP. We have *several* very expensive apps at work used in various departments that just flat out will NOT work with Vista/7, which forces us to maintain XP in various areas. It's not that we want to support XP, but we're forced to because there's no upgrade option with those particular vendors yet.[/citation]

Join the Club. My Engineering softwares have some serious issues with Windows 7. I'm forced to run XP as a VM to be able to work with them. And I'm guessing that by the time they fix the Apps on Windows 7, Windows 10 will be available.
 
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