Windows 9 Expected To Push Consumers Off Windows XP

[MidnightDistort]

So what? A Core2Duo is still perfectly fine for most office applications, point-of-sales terminal/PCs, ATMs and practically everything else that is not particularly compute-intensive. With a tiny bit of care and half-decent operating environment, PCs will work fine for 10+ years so replacement parts are not really a problem - I still have a working P54C CPU (first-gen Pentium MMX) in a good old AT-style tower for retro gaming and running ASM9x demos.

Worst case, simply replace office PCs as they die instead of hunting down those "expensive and hard to find" replacement parts, still cheaper than replacing still perfectly good PCs just for the heck of it. Components from 'dead' PCs can be scavenged to fix other PCs where something different failed - internally-sourced replacement components; only cost the time it takes to identify and swap them out.

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I don't understand this mentality that something isn't useful because its a little old

+1 count me in on this too..

I replaced a PSU fan that stopped working, used a fan from a defunct PSU, just took a little rewiring and it works good as new. Instead of buying another 2 or 3TB hard drive (i got a 2 and a 3TB already) i just use extra 40 or 80GB HDD's laying around. I don't use them for anything important but i'll switch them out as needed and upgrade them as needed. I got a single core 2.2Ghz PC runing W7, albeit a little slow but it gets the job done. I could upgrade it but i decided that i wasn't going to spend any more money on it when i can convert it into a linux machine when W7 support ends. I don't throw or get rid of anything if it's still useful.

 

[ravewulf]

The "cool factor" of the Modern UI will eventually win everyone over.

The flat "unimpressed" face I made at reading that was epic. Just like Modern UI's failure.

 

[canadianvice]

Though, if ars' reporting is right, we may not have to worry about the distinction much longer.

 

[MidnightDistort]

The "cool factor" of the Modern UI will eventually win everyone over.

The flat "unimpressed" face I made at reading that was epic. Just like Modern UI's failure.

LOL i think i'll stick to my W7 start menu thank you 😛

You should have video'd it posted the link.

 

[JacFlasche]

I wonder when people will notice that touch screens are stupid on real computers. I sit twelve feet away from a 55" plasma screen for 98% of my computing, I have never had a desire to touch it, what kind of a feeb wants to touch their screen? 7 is really a lot better than XP. Over the years, I have never once had to reload my OS with 7. And that means a lot, it just never got bogged down like XP used to. XP needed a fresh reload every six months or so on my system -- 7 never. I wouldn't even consider 8, I will stick with 7 until MS comes up with something that is really better. The worst think about 7 is how you cannot just throw anything onto a quick start tool bar like you use to be able to, I like to use the quick start for everything, make the icons disappear and have the quick-start bar auto-hide, and never need to use the stupid start menu. That's how the brilliant imbeciles at MS could improve their OS, all quick-start auto-hide and no icons or start menu, also they should do away with the stupid documents, and libraries -- how friggin' lame. . . .What is: C/put your stupid folders here and name them/ too easy?

 

[SessouXFX]

I never been or have claimed to be the most astute when it comes to OS and PCs in general. I just know enough to stay on the straight and narrow. Having said that, I've always thought that security issues usually happened to the most populated OSes at that time. Why would a hacker go after a few hundred slowpokes on XP and Vista, when they have a treasure trove of people using W7 and W8, that are just as likely to be vulnerable?

But then again, I've also had the theory that MS bugged their own systems more than any hacker could have hoped to imagine them to. Most of my bug issues didn't come from some dirty neck scoundrel sending me a virus, but from MS screwing up their own patches.

 

[shealladh]

Well with Mantle bring competition to DirectX, maybe M$ might start to listen to us, the users. We don't want a 38" phone on our desktop. We want a functional and better OS that what 8 falls of the table!