uhhhhh, have you ever used windows xp? yes it is overall faster, and i do realize that it is that old, but it's still going strong if you ask me. fall off support? well, i didn't know it was going to fall off support, that's good to know, thanks for the information, but xp has already established it self as strong and still going dude, by the time xp "falls" off you already get what's after windows 8, he's wasting money this way no matter which way you look at it, and he's looking for something new. it was a pun so to speak, if you were paying attention, and more of a joke. don't take it seriously. also, did you know that bill gates did not want to release the pre beta vista when it was released, god knows what microsoft is doing about 7, 8, and 8.1. last i heard, they were kicking him out. he wanted to extend vista for like years after, so i don't trust the layout of the new os's if that's the case. all i'm saying is that the xp interface overall is superior of that to the newer ones, and yes, i studied BOTH os's and yes it is slower, i don't know what your talking about but windows 7 has this laggy feel overall and xp doesn't. same with the other newer os's. i find xp very spunky, responsive, i mean have you even used xp? it's way faster dude. i don't know what your smoking. okay fine, you got me on falling off from support, but as i said, it's MORE established then any other os to date. it's going to be around for a while still, and by the time it "FALLS OFF" the planet so to speak, a joke, which you will probably take seriously, you can look forward to windows 9 already, and maybe the speed issue would be fixed. personally i'm waiting for intel to get their act together. btw, i don't know what your talking about but the newer os's eat up so much resourches compared to xp, it's more simpler, not to mention the interface is way better and easier to find files. style xp will crush aero and the new design any day dude. and yes i have windows 7 on a desktop right here and it's really shitty. i wish i never encountered windows 7. and yes i've tried windows 8/8.1 and it's really shitty too. as i said, bill gates never wanted to release vista or that type of interface, i'll have you know that microsoft changed the whole layout on the os which makes it different.
okay, fine, i didn't know it was going to stop support,i had a feeling it was nearing the end. i mean seriously, your saying it's that old and it's still being supported, imagine how established that already is. also, just because it's going to stop support, your acting like the whole os is going to come to a solid hault, which is not true. i'm personally waiting for the next best operating system when they get their performance right. otherwise i'm never upgrading, i see no need to waste money on a slow ass os. and yes it is slower, i used ALL of them and although it's not as bad as the initial release of vista, it's still really slow dude, again, i don't know what your smoking, but it KNOWN to eat way more resources then xp ever did, in fact, i'm not sure but i think bill gates wanted to scrap the idea of a new interface regarding the hd interface setup back in the day, saying it was crappy, so yeah it wasn't bill gates's idea of a os, it really wasn't, and again, they wanted to kick him out.
i'm scratching my head wondering how you thought xp wasn't faster, that's totally not true what you said. have you used both of them? and it really is better with all i said above. and i was refering to a "new" os as in "trying something different" it was a joke, pun intended and it was more of a joke, but not a joke. and it is very buggy the new os's. it's not as solid as xp and they should have never did away with the old interface. correct me if i'm wrong but i could have sworn bill gates almost scrapped that project, but i think microsoft refused to listen to him. either way you can look it up online, bill gates didn't support vista and he kept his mouth shut during a student interview not to look bad.
and it really does eat up more resources, i only have a gig in this laptop with xp and that's way more then enough. even for gaming. i only use warcraft 3. and didn't toms post in early benchmarks that having more memory sometimes hurts performance in games? it depends on hitting the sweet spot.
okay, so thanks for the heads up on the support thing, i didn't know that, but i'm not worried cause xp already is the most established os out there, that's a fact. i haven't had any issues yet with xp. although the rest is a different story... your pretending like it's going to change over night, which it is defnitely NOT. i'm confused here, shed some light on me.