Thanks for the good times, Windows XP.
It's The End of the Road for Windows XP, Office 2003, IE8 : Read more
It's The End of the Road for Windows XP, Office 2003, IE8 : Read more
What several of you aren't seeing is that there are legitimate business cases where some companies anchored to Windows XP CANNOT move on.
Quck and to the point, imaging running machinery that costs millions to replace that relies on NetBEUI to be programmed and updated. It is cost prohibitive for some of these companies to continue to exist with the necessity if installing IP-compatible hardware based on programming languages that may not even exist anymore by former companies that created them. In a lot of industrial companies, obsolete is how they make their ends meet and pay their staffing. Some of these companies are stuck with XP. The dollar requirements to upgrade would force them to close their doors.
What several of you aren't seeing is that there are legitimate business cases where some companies anchored to Windows XP CANNOT move on.
Gotta buy a new laptop just to switch out of XP kind of sucks. My laptop is over 6 years old with old with Core 2 Duo @ 2.53 ghz and 2 Gb ram really can't handle vista nor 7 because the increased ram and cpu usage.
Yes, XP is long in the tooth. But for biz computers, they may have issues that are far more costly than a $100 upgrade. Also, since MS is shoving Windows 8 up people's arses, that doesn't help.Good riddance, it was nice that Microsoft supported XP that long, but it's time to move on. The transitioning period for everyone has passed.
If you cannot pay 100 dollars for Win7 or Win8 for the next 4-6 years there is something definitely wrong. If you really NEED XP for some reason use a virtual machine with your copy, but I really doubt that anyone NEEDS XP.
That's odd.... I run Win7 on my Thinkpad (I purposely bought with XP back when Vista was everywhere).Gotta buy a new laptop just to switch out of XP kind of sucks. My laptop is over 6 years old with old with Core 2 Duo @ 2.53 ghz and 2 Gb ram really can't handle vista nor 7 because the increased ram and cpu usage.