Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!

[Raptor]

You may have 0.01 of my pinky then, if you so desire.

I settle for 0.1.

[Geek-9pm]

I never knew a million  use Windows 3.11 nowadays. 

But how many OS with a GUI are still in use? How many have a million users? That would leave out lots of Linux bistros, because the Linux people move on. But what makes a good Linux bistro is the GUI, either KDE or the other thing.. Same thing with other systems. Its the GUI, Louie. 

(Take a look a CompUSA or TigerDirect or any big on-line retailer and notice there is a lot of refurbished stuff out there. MS says no to new sales of XP. So if you want XP, buy used)   

Right now people are buying refurbished computers with preloaded XP SP2 on them. Mostly HP and Dell. They do not want Vista, that do not want Linux. The want XP! It is the GUI of choice. (Unless you can afford a MAC, but th's not fair.)   


So then, Will 200 million users worldwide still use Windows XP in the future?
By the year year 2010?  or  2012? 

 If they do not switch by then, MS may have to get a load from the World Bank.  (If they have any money then.)

Do you think MS's move to quit XP support ans sale will hurt their business? I would say the now is a bad time to try to get people to pay more for stuff they
do not need! 

[BC_Programmer]

I've always wanted to eat at a linux bistro...

[patio]

I've always wanted to eat at a linux bistro...

They have great cappucino there i've heard...

[BC_Programmer]

great pasta too; long strings. Just try their sendmail special!

[wareupdater]

I agree XP is good but its also not good to march forwar... there are lot of new discoveries/developments that might be far better than XP.

May be for the moment XP is the best but until when?

[BC_Programmer]

the only thing I can drink black is Green tea and weaker black tea. I prefer milk/cream or sugar, though.

I only drink coffee when I need to extra boost it entails. Although usually if I need the boost coffee would give, I'm down enough to just get an energy drink (talk about jitters! try 2 jolt Ultras... only has the same amount of caffeine as 20 cups of coffee... but their sugar-free... what's the point of making a sugar-free energy drink...)

One time I was really desperate and couldn't be bothered to "water down" the coffee's wake-up effect, so I had it black. Wasn't as unpalatable as I was expecting. Not something I prefer, though... (I guess I'm a wuss then...).


At my work- I have somebody who orders a medium tea with 10 XL sugars (fills the cup halfway)...


ANYWAY- back on-topic...

I agree XP is good but its also not good to march forwar... there are lot of new discoveries/developments that might be far better than XP.

May be for the moment XP is the best but until when?

there are third party drivers for DOS to use USB storage. Same type of thing for win95 and win98.

It's a bit more work installing XP apps in windows 95, but it's possible (with a few community written tools, such as kernelEx)

once Microsoft stops supporting it, the community steps up to the plate. And IMO, they do a d*** good job.

[BC_Programmer]

Hey a shot of Balieys in the coffee doesn't hurt does it???........LOL

Of course not.

schedule:

9:00 AM- have beer and rice crispies. hey, it's noon somewhere.

12:00 PM- switch to hard liquor.

3:00 PM vomit.

4:00 PM replace fluids lost by vomiting. more hard liquor.

5:00 PM pass out on the toilet.

11:00 PM wake up, wonder why head hurts. fix with some tylenol and more hard liquor.

12:00 AM have last shot of rye, thus emptying liquor cabinet.

12:05 AM attempt to walk to liquor store, get more liquor. get funny looks when bill runs up to 200$.

12:45 AM get home. Pass out on couch.

8:45 AM wake up with extreme hangover. have coffee spiked with hard liquor. let the day BEGIN!

repeat.




7:30 AM? when did he start?

[BC_Programmer]

hey I thought that was an everyday schedule, not just Holiday...lol

Good point. Fixed! 

[Dead_reckon]

Lol @ the last few topics, but to be on topic, I still use XP Pro SP2, I see no problems with this operating system. It operates fine as is, the only limitation is that it is thirty two bit, they need to optimize the 64 bit version to run as stably as the 32 bit version. Then we can all enjoy up to 128GB of RAM or VRAM. But what about the 2TB logical limit in windows? Is it a rumor? Fact? Myth? Who knows?

[BC_Programmer]

MAC OS X is better...IMO

I've never used it, and I'm not the kind to preempt opinions about programs/OS's I haven't used (which seems to be rampant). And I'm not about to base my opinion of it based on my limited OS 8.6 experience, since they totally revamped it. (not that my 8.6 experience was bad by any means).

If Macs were as cheap as PCs, I'd buy one, at the very least to see what the fuss is all about from the other side; but I just can't afford it.

[Calum]

What has everybody got against XP X64 edition?
By the way, I highly doubt MS will be "optimizing" it any further, in the same way they didn't optimize any other OS they've made to my knowledge.  They want to sell you things, not make things they've already sold better so you don't buy anything new.

[Raptor]

They want to sell you things, not make things they've already sold better so you don't buy anything new.

That's why I still use Windows ME!

[aokiji]

You're right.

I'm the one who still and always use XP, at least for few more years.

Some of my expensive in-house developed software run more stable on XP than Vista. But the story will be different if the newer Windows 7 has solved this problem.

[soybean]

With some level of support for XP promised by Microsoft until 2014, that's far longer than the time for any previous version of Windows.  So, I think we'll see a lot of XP for years to come yet.

I have Vista on my notebook PC and I like it but I see no need to upgrade my desktop to Vista.  It's doing quite well with XP.