PC Vendors Cautious About High Cost of Windows 8 PCs

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Nope. M$ refuses to increase it's support any more. It's already on extended life support and it is highly unlikely that it will have another extension.[/citation]
We will see...I feel like I read before that they wouldn't extend it, and then they did. However, with windows vii they really have less of a reason to.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]Halcyon[/nom]We will see...I feel like I read before that they wouldn't extend it, and then they did. However, with windows vii they really have less of a reason to.[/citation]

They had to extend it after first saying they wouldn't because of how badly Vista failed. This time, they have 7 out and 8 on the way. I highly doubt that XP will get another extension now that there really isn't much reason to.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]They had to extend it after first saying they wouldn't because of how badly Vista failed. This time, they have 7 out and 8 on the way. I highly doubt that XP will get another extension now that there really isn't much reason to.[/citation]
Makes sense. I used 8 some more this morning...guess I'm getting old as I really still don't care for Metro. 8 does run quite well as a Parallels VM, I have a feeling that's as close to it as I'm going to get this year.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]halcyon[/nom]Makes sense. I used 8 some more this morning...guess I'm getting old as I really still don't care for Metro. 8 does run quite well as a Parallels VM, I have a feeling that's as close to it as I'm going to get this year.[/citation]

Look up "classic Shell" on softpedia.com and you should be able to work around Metro if you can't learn to live with it without getting a little annoyed by it. I'm still stockpiling different workarounds for it... I'm not doing it quickly because as of right now, it doesn't seem to be something that I should place as a high priority on my to-do list until Windows 8 goes into the mainstream.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]blazorthon[/nom]Look up "classic Shell" on softpedia.com and you should be able to work around Metro if you can't learn to live with it without getting a little annoyed by it. I'm still stockpiling different workarounds for it... I'm not doing it quickly because as of right now, it doesn't seem to be something that I should place as a high priority on my to-do list until Windows 8 goes into the mainstream.[/citation]
Thx

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]halcyon[/nom]Thx[/citation]

You're welcome.