Windows or Mac???

[CBMatt]

Microsoft is making a HUGE mistake cutting their support for XP.
Im probably not even going to get a new computer.

What's this about?  Last I heard, they were going to support it for almost eight more years.  Was I misinformed or did they change their minds?

[Dark Blade]

Ask Carbon. He told me about it in the first place.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

It was on a post in either the Other forum or the Off Topic forum. I dunno.

[Dark Blade]

OK, why is this topic under  FAQ Solution Database? 

[spadman]

Mac, used to it

OK with some forms of linux that would work on my computer (ubuntu crashed it)
Windows and linux I can cope with.
Mac has all the software you need, and no viruses

[spadman]

Don't blame the computer for the pricing, Apple is a monopoly, but the computers and software I still think are better

[CBMatt]

It was on a post in either the Other forum or the Off Topic forum. I dunno.

I'm too tired to do it now, but I'll look into this sometime today.

Mac has all the software you need, and no viruses

I've got some bad news for you, buddy...

[patio]

WINDOWS XP!!
Is Microsoft really cutting off their support of XP in 2011?

Your info is inaccurate...

Microsoft on Wednesday extended support for its Windows XP Home and Windows XP Media Center operating systems through 2014...

The addition of a five-year "extended support" phase to Windows XP will take effect in May 2009. In Microsoft parlance, extended support is the period when all support is fee-based and non-security hotfixes are produced only for corporate customers. Until April of 2009, Windows XP Home and Media Center will remain in what is called "mainstream support," which offers some no-charge support and free updates that don't deal with security issues.

Previously, all support for Windows XP Home was slated to end two years after the release of Vista, in other words, at the end of January 2009...

http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=197000165

[unlovedwarrior]

same old poll windows or Mac lets just kill the dieing thing now

[Dark Blade]

WINDOWS XP!!
Is Microsoft really cutting off their support of XP in 2011?

Your info is inaccurate...

Blame Carbon, my informant.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I did a small search and i found this. (Raptor's postr)
http://www.computerhope.com/forum/index.php/topic,34249.0.html

[CBMatt]

Well, then Raptor's a dirty rotten scoundrel.

Microsoft on Wednesday extended support for its Windows XP Home and Windows XP Media Center operating systems through 2014...

The addition of a five-year "extended support" phase to Windows XP will take effect in May 2009. In Microsoft parlance, extended support is the period when all support is fee-based and non-security hotfixes are produced only for corporate customers. Until April of 2009, Windows XP Home and Media Center will remain in what is called "mainstream support," which offers some no-charge support and free updates that don't deal with security issues.

Previously, all support for Windows XP Home was slated to end two years after the release of Vista, in other words, at the end of January 2009...

http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=197000165

Thanks for the info, pat.  Not quite as long as I had thought, but close enough.

[Sid]

Mac, ANYthing is better than MI©®O$OFT

I question the opinion of someone who spells Microsoft like "MI©®O$OFT".

Normally, when someone shows such dis-taste for Microsoft, they're a Linux user, in my experience, and why would anyone with a brain, or Brian for that matter, choose Mac over anything else?

[helper]

because linux wasn't an option at the time

[Sid]

because linux wasn't an option at the time

Well how do you explain "MI©®O$OFT" then?  Hmm?

And who gives a *censored* about "options".  You should've made it an option.

Pfft.  Lightweight.