Microsoft Worried About PCs Still Using Windows XP

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If they just made a TRUE desktop mode for Windows 8 everybody would have better love for it. WHAT SO EFFIN COMPLICATED. With that said I cannot STAND the current version of windows 8.
 
Microsoft offers very little for business to do upgrade to windows 8 heck even windows 7 therefore why pay the cost. As far as security goes that's just BS. Microsoft releases security patches every month so it really doesn't matter whether you get them or not since there is always security problem they are not able to fix.
 
I work at a college where we have at least forty Pentium 3 und Celerons with 512Mb at the most. You wont expect to run Windows 8 in those museum pieces. XP runs.
 
I'm sticking with XP. I use W7 at work and do not like it. And as for W8, I'll switch to Linux before using W8.

Suggestion: maybe Toms hardware can provide a poll for XP users to report when the lack of support causes a problem with viruses, bots, malware, trojans, etc. It would be interesting to see if/when XP users experience problems when M$ support is withdrawn. I'm betting the problems do not increase when support is gone.
 
I'm sticking with XP. I use W7 at work and do not like it. And as for W8, I'll switch to Linux before using W8.

Suggestion: maybe Toms hardware can provide a poll for XP users to report when the lack of support causes a problem with viruses, bots, malware, trojans, etc. It would be interesting to see if/when XP users experience problems when M$ support is withdrawn. I'm betting the problems do not increase when support is gone.
 
Hey MS, how about getting people excited about releasing a real DESKTOP operating system, instead of the consumer grade OS loaded with non-work related garbage, where the hell is my application in all these god damn tiles, frustrating to use that is Windows 8.1.
 
People who are still using winxp have hardware to are ridiculously outdated where they couldn't upgrade to 7 or 8 anyways even if they could. Also, I highly doubt M$ is worried about customers. They obviously don't give one iota about customer feedback with that garbage called windows 8.1 with that stupid metro ui and a useless start button. I don't know of a single business that's going to use that stupid interface.
 

It isn't so much a matter of difficulty as a matter of practical business sense: continuing to actively support a product that has been discontinued for years is a drain on financial and staff resources that generates little to no revenue.

If you were developing software, how many years would you be able and willing to spare the effort maintaining and supporting previous versions of your main products at your own expense? Few companies support their previous versions for more than two years after a new version launch.

XP is three major versions and a decade ago.
 
If M$ were really concerned, they would release the source to XP. Call it a community edition. I am sure they won't because the open source community would improve it and it would undercut win7 and 8 sales. Also, I bet they would be embarassed at what the code looks like compared to how an OS should be designed modularly (Linux). Modular design (especially for the GUI) would have solved the whole tablet interface, start button, desktop dilema. Too bad Linux and the Linux model didn't prevail. I'd chalk it up to gaming support a few years back. If Open GL would have been embraced by Nvidia and AMD, I think the world if geeks would have gravitated to a different landscape these days.
 




Right? A $50K car doesn't even have manufacturer support after 12 years (most not even five years).
 
People who are still using winxp have hardware that are too ridiculously outdated where they couldn't upgrade to 7 or 8 anyways even if they could. Also, I highly doubt M$ is worried about customers. They obviously don't give one iota about customer feedback for that garbage called windows 8.1 with that stupid metro ui and a useless start button. I don't know of a single business that's going to use that stupid interface.
 
People/companies that have all they need in a XP machine are not "power" users who use new hardware/software, but imagine doing 3D rendering/ video editing/ photo editing into an XP machine... that`s plain stupid, you can`t blame MS for driving to newer OS and new needs. To blame is the lack of support for the software those companies use for not making newer versions available, want it or not, hardware and software will evolve.

Remember... there was a time when even Bill Gates thought that 640k ram was enough.
 
I wonder how much Microsoft is paying Mr. Kevin Parrish to publish the exact same "article" every week - just shuffle the words around a bit and voilá! Shame on you, Mr. Parrish.
 
Jordan, seriously, get off the Windows 8 hate train. Its not JUST a tablet OS, brother. Its a combination of a mobile desktop with the true Windows desktop. So what if it doesn't have the start button? So what if its DIFFERENT? Microsoft has had the same platform for years and years, and just this little bit of change pisses people off. I hate people.
 
The two computers I have with XP won't support Windows 7, let alone Windows 8. Even if they would, they're not worth the cost of an upgrade. Yet, both of them do exactly what I need them to do.
 
A lot of those PCs are just older PCs with no reason to upgrade so XP will stay a while until people start throwing those out.
 
A lot of those PCs are just older PCs with no reason to upgrade so XP will stay a while until people start throwing those out.
 
Why not make Windows 8.2 have the choice of XP interface? How about you can choose between kindergarten touch screen mode and classic XP mode? Make it affordable, and give consumers options, and they will buy.
 
Individual persons is one thing, companies and business on the other hand is something else. If the mom and pop grocery store down the street is using an XP box to run their "Potato Peeler 7000" machine with software that was made in 2001 and there are no updates from the manufacturer for vista/7/8, they're not going to fork over the money to upgrade the computer and operating system PLUS a new software license for the "Potato Peeler 9000", they will live with what they have until a windfall.
 


bill gates has maintained for the last 30+ years that he never said that, and no one has ever been able to come up with proof he ever did. however, there is evidence that he said 640k was NOT enough.
 

You honestly expect people to find what actually happened instead of just believing what makes them feel better? Of course he didn't say that, no one who was using computers back in that time would ever say that cause they knew better.
 
The comments crack me up, especially the "I'm switching to Linux", good luck, when UAC came out people were listing it as top reasons to switch to Linux, I'm sorry but you can't sneeze on a proper Linux system with out entering a privileged user password. To all the XP people are you paying a yearly support subscription? No? Didn't think so. You can not expect a company to keep supporting a product that has seen 3 version updates. Even Linux's LTS (Long Term Support) Kernel is max 3 years. WinXP Embedded/RT(as in Real Time) are different they may have an extended end of life for Industrial process (and since when do you really need to change something so drastic).
 
@velocityg4: You had me going until you said "automation behind the scenes"

This is exactly what I don't want in an OS. I want to have absolute control over what my OS does, not have it do sneaky automatic things behind my back. I installed Windows 8 and then waged war with it for about 2 months until I finally got it under some semblance of control.
 
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