A Microsoft rep talks about users still running Windows XP.
Microsoft: Windows XP Users Are Missing Out : Read more
Microsoft: Windows XP Users Are Missing Out : Read more
Why? Microsoft is a business. It is not their problem that companies are not willing to update their legacy software to work with modern OSes. If companies are not updating their internal software, what types of other issues are they offloading to their own customers.Poor planning by businesses not able to keep up with their hardware and software needs can also reflect poorly how they manage their business as a whole.Again, not Microsoft's issue to support a OS that is over 14 years old now....then ms should offer for a limited time to give windows 7 upgrades out for free for windows XP users.
Don't forget cost.Most, if not all, of the NHS' computers run XP. To be able to run Windows 7 at the same level of performance would require new hardware and new operating system purchases. To do the upgrade would be FAR too costly. What with the country being *in debt* to the banks.Just an example, y'know.
I've upgraded 3 of my family members computers to win8 and it has been nothing but headaches. From simple things like using email, opening up pdfs (onenote goes fullscreen and they can't exit out) to printing a simple doc, win8 is so counter-intuitive for non-tech savy people and just mucked things up for those who are familiar with the decades old windows interface (that wasn't broken and working just fine). Personally, I have no problem with win8 but don't like having to waste my time on unnecessary headaches. For those that just want to run 1 program at a time (browse web and check emai)l, a p4 with 512 ram does everything just fine. I'm curious if M$ has run all the costs of forcing people off a beloved OS, I mean so many software companies would kill for that market penetration, but making an OS ain't easy.
Your problem is you went to Dell for drivers, the manufacturers will only give you drivers up to the point they want. Beyond that OS point they will no longer give driver updates even though they exist. They do this to lower the work they have to do (they usually mod the drivers) and to try and get you to buy a new computer. I am using a Dell Precision M65 from 2006 with Windows 8.1 and it has all drivers and works perfectly, the way to do it is to find the drivers from the part makers and not from the computer maker. Although with Windows 8.1 I really didn't have to find anything since all drivers were found automatically (Windows 8 is good at that).Yeah. Sorry. Just checked on Dell's web site. I don't see Windows 7/8/8.1 drivers for my laptop (I suppose I could upgrade to Vista).
Have you actually tried running online videos on a P4? It's not something that can be done well, hell even some first gen core CPUs can't handle it unless the GPU is very good for the time. A Pentium D machine I have here can't run most any YouTube videos smoothly unless I lower the res and make sure it is a small window, if I make the window big it becomes a slideshow. Even some non-video websites will go slow and take forever to render on P4s and you think they are perfectly fine for what they do?I've upgraded 3 of my family members computers to win8 and it has been nothing but headaches. From simple things like using email, opening up pdfs (onenote goes fullscreen and they can't exit out) to printing a simple doc, win8 is so counter-intuitive for non-tech savy people and just mucked things up for those who are familiar with the decades old windows interface (that wasn't broken and working just fine). Personally, I have no problem with win8 but don't like having to waste my time on unnecessary headaches. For those that just want to run 1 program at a time (browse web and check emai)l, a p4 with 512 ram does everything just fine. I'm curious if M$ has run all the costs of forcing people off a beloved OS, I mean so many software companies would kill for that market penetration, but making an OS ain't easy.
Yup! Feel free to purchase that new laptop for me. This is probably the only thing I don't like about computers. I've got an X1800XL All-In-Wonder TV Tuner Card that became useless when Vista came along. Now I've got a laptop which I use primarily for finances that is about to become much less secure.If you can't find at least windows 7 drivers, probably time to move on.
Yup! Feel free to purchase that new laptop for me. This is probably the only thing I don't like about computers. I've got an X1800XL All-In-Wonder TV Tuner Card that became useless when Vista came along. Now I've got a laptop which I use primarily for finances that is about to become much less secure.If you can't find at least windows 7 drivers, probably time to move on.