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Id personally upgrade if they put windows 8 on sale again. A lot skipped out on its $15 upgrade release because of the known issues and bugs. No one wants to deal with that. Now that its fixed M$ can put it on sale and im sure a lot more would upgrade.
 


Respectively: Log into another. Our UPS keeps the power running until the backup generator kicks in. Go outside, run about flapping your arms and panic a lot!


 
"Microsoft has a huge challenge on its hands over the next six months: to not only sell customers on the greatness that is Windows 8.1, but to convince them that Windows XP is too old and too unsafe to use"

I hope it was sarcasm calling 8.1 greatness. I think you forgot the [sarcasm][/sarcasm] tags!
 


It's absolutely fine... certainly better than XP, and close to W7.

 
The company I work for still uses XP on PCs that aren't equipped for Win 7 (whether it be the software or hardware). They also limit the patches that are deployed because some of them actually hinder the operations of some of our software. However, They are making a move towards Ubuntu since the patching and software deployment will be a lot easier on a global scale, and the user management will be a lot more flexible for our needs.

The company is a little hesitant to go with Windows 8 because of how sluggish it can be with drivers and software. In my personal opinion, Windows 7 was the last solid OS Microsoft has made.
 
Listen Microsoft, many of us XP-Users are very satisfied with the product you've built, but many of us just don't have the financial means to buy new Hardware to run your new shiny OS. And why should we change a perfectly fine running OS? Or do you now say that XP is no good? Do we have to remind you of your XP-Commercials when there was 'nothing else'?
 

You are completely free to continue running XP. You will just need to be more careful about not clicking questionable links, opening files from questionable sources, visiting dodgy sites, etc.

What do shiny and expensive device manufacturers usually tell their consumer-grade device customers after ~5 years when their devices either stop working or do not have driver support for new OSes? "Sucks to be you, buy a newer model."

Support for older stuff inevitably ends. If you were 20 years old today and invented something, would you think it reasonable to be expected to support it in its original form for the rest of your life? Most likely not. If someone finds a bug in Foobar 5.3 and your app is up to Foobar 8.1, you would most likely tell them to upgrade to 8.1 because investing more time and resources in the 10 years old 5.3 build makes no sense unless you are still selling enough annual licenses to cover on-going maintenance costs but even then, there will be a day where enough people will have upgraded to newer versions where annual licenses for 5.3 won't be enough to cover its maintenance costs or where you will have so many newer version that also need maintenance that you will no longer be able to spare resources for 5.3 regardless of how much licensing revenue it may still generate.
 


well, using our XP-Machines with XP is of course the solution to the ongoing Microsoft-Money-Maker-Scheme. Another Option would be Linux of course, but then, even some Linux-Distributions are so bloated already that staying on XP, which we already have, is the first option (Who would have thought? lol).

You see, in the future, we need companies which can offer solutions to problems which are of a much bigger scope than just generating revenue for share-holders. The issues in IT we have today are mostly issues related to revenue of the companies selling IT-Stuff. IT has become a Gimmick-Industry. The problems we have today and even more in the future (if nothing changes), are related to dwindling ressources, population increase and pollution of the environment. If you are a Hard-Core-IT-Person, you may very well be aware that IT - produced and used in a conscious way - will be the key to the solution of many problems we face. The big 'IT'-Companies are very well aware of this, but they and their Share-Holders fear that their revenue will decrease if they change their path. They will have to change their path if they would like to have a say in the future, otherwise they at least can read about themselves in future History-Books.

I have an IT-Soul. Many IT-Souls are waking up. The revolution is in full gear so to say and IT-Evolution (which presently is being falsely sold as having the latest gimmick, shiny HW/SW) cannot be stopped.

Cheers
 
For those of you who are "users" and not the technicians working on your outdated XP machines, you are out of date. Technology must move forward. If you don't like it, then stay with your XP machines. Eventually you won't be able to access your bank accounts or use printers. Because while the rest of us like the conveniences of things working better... you are welcome to stay exactly where you are in life. BEHIND. I personally love technology. Without upgrades you wouldn't have remote controls for your TV's, or better yet... you wouldn't have all those lovely channels you get on your Smart TV's. In order to make one thing better, others have to change. No company wants to make thousands of different versions of one product. Do you still drive a 1970 something automobile? Probably not. You people complaining need to go back to live in the woods without indoor plumbing.
 

What's a "smart tv"?

You people complaining need to go back to live in the woods without indoor plumbing
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Nice comparison between a 12 year old OS and something that has existed for hundreds of years.

And keep in mind transition of all these new forms of technology has been gradual.

So what if they are behind? Maybe technology is advancing too fast?



 
If my computer using XP is not connected to the Internet, I cannot be attacked by Hacker.
I use my desktop only for research. I have a lot of mathematical and statistical sofyware which cannot work with Windows 7( disgusting) or 8 ( Horror).
Thus, I have to keep XP othrwise i have to spend again at least $7000 to buy all these softwares, which I have collected over the last 15 years.
Most small businesses can do their accountancy or engineering designs in that way: keeping a desktop with XP unconnected to the Internet.
i am sure Milions lof People all over the World are cursing Bill Gates for taking advantage of his mlonopoly position and forcing people to use Windows7 or 8 whch are worse than anything one can imagine.
 


Have you used it for any period of time? I've been on it for several weeks now, and my only gripe with it is the smartphone style apps. I wish they'd go the hell away.

Start and desktop is just fine though.
 
I have had to work on a few systems with it. I cannot stand metro. I have no reason to make the switch as all my desktops are on win 7 ultimate 64bit. My laptop has 7 home premium 64bit and isn't exactly used much, so upgrading it would be pointless as well. I cannot even stand Metro on windows phone. :lol:
 


Of my own admission, I do kind of miss Windows 7. I think that W8 is best considered as a "get it if you don't have 7" option. It's solid in itself and I've adapted to it very easily, but it's nothing motivating to install if you've got W7.

I honestly only threw it on because MS gave me a free copy for being a salesperson; now that 8 is mainstream I figured I should get used to using it for the tutorials and tech advice we offer where I work.

That.... and Surface. I figured the integration would be nice. We'll have to see - I am quite tempted to load seven again... for reasons Toms probably wouldn't condone. (Though, let it be said my OS has always been a legitimate copy).
 


I'm really torn on W8. I see a lot of the hate I had for it and a lot of the hate against it is unfounded - it's not a cataclysm and it's easily learned. The OS works well enough, but I do see at times the obvious "schizophrenic" comment.

There's also some minor issues, like windows getting stuck behind the taskbar if they're put inactive down there, but I'm hoping that's just something I failed to notice on seven.

That said, however, Seven is just so much more of a purist interface. I type to find programs, so the start screen works, but that said.... I think the only time I've used it is because I have a pinned shortcut to Appdata on it. (for actually clicking to open an app).

It gets me that there's all this bloat in terms of the smartphone apps and integration. I wish it could be turned off if people didn't want it.

Again, I really am torn. I'm not sure whether I like 8 more than seven or whether seven is just false nostalgia.
 

The ability to disable the Taskbar's Always-on-Top feature so you could make sure your applications could get the whole screen without the taskbar randomly trampling over the bottom of your screen got removed from Windows 7 by a patch for some reason (it had been there since Win95) and is one of my biggest pet peeves about Win8/8.1... I hate having to periodically dismiss tons of notifications I cannot disable and do not care about just to make the taskbar go away so I can regain access to my applications' status bar and bottom controls.
 

Apart from a handful of UI annoyances, there isn't much of a difference between 7 and 8.x... and some of 8.x's annoyances were introduced to 7 through patches - like the [strike]ability[/strike] inability to make the taskbar NOT always on top.
 
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