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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #30 on: December 23, 2008, 09:41:45 AM »
Are you sure it's till 2014?

I read +3 years per Service pack or so. One date said 2009 and the other 2011.
Is there no bloody official date on the Microsoft website? I just can't seem to find it.


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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #31 on: December 23, 2008, 09:49:27 AM »
" Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. "

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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #32 on: December 23, 2008, 09:49:40 AM »
Here's a reference with more detail: What’s happening to Windows XP on June 30th?.  Note the distinction between Mainstream Support phase and Extended Support phase, the latter being what will be continued through 2014.  Extended Support phase does include security updates.

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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #33 on: December 23, 2008, 10:59:25 AM »
heh, this reminds me of Visual Basic 6's 2008 support cut-off date...

same type of discussions popped up all over the VB forums on the net...
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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2008, 12:13:22 PM »
Another Information Week writer said:
  "In an unprecedented move, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has committed to providing support services for its soon to be retired Windows XP through 2014 -- a full 13 years after the operating system was originally released..."   :o

Microsoft says:
You can still buy new PCs and use Windows XP. Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate have downgrade rights that let you return your operating system to Windows XP. We plan to provide support for Windows XP until 2014.
    ;D
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-xp/future.aspx

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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2008, 03:49:42 PM »
Yellow is my favorite colour.....
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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #36 on: December 23, 2008, 04:45:34 PM »
here's an little-known tidbit:


Did you know:

Bananas are yellow?
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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #37 on: December 23, 2008, 05:06:53 PM »
Interesting...
Then why are they not my favorit fruit ? ?

I'm off to ponder.
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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #38 on: December 23, 2008, 05:23:32 PM »
It's really more a theological issue more then anything; the "favourite fruit" vs. Favourite colour paradox has plagued man for centuries. great thinkers have died trying to solve the question that you just posed, mainly in the form "my favourite colour is X, but my favourite fruit is Y, which isn't X.. why?".

I believe it lies in a certain strand of DNA that holds our important data structures: for example, by studying the human genome, scientists have made an amazing discovery- all of our basic instincts are stored as C structures. For example:

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typedef struct
{  COLORREF Color;
    IWeasel Weasel;
}; FAVOURITECOLOUR


via this amazing code, we see two members: a color, of course, and a handle to a weasel. "a handle to a weasel?" you say? well, researchers discovering this structure encoded deep in our DNA have discovered that the brain will dynamically change the value of the Weasel Member to point to a valid weasel if and only if the person is either holding a weasel or another animal that implements the IWeasel Interface, such as ferrets or chipmunks. What relevance does it have to colour? That's a good question that the researchers also raised. They determined that while holding a weasel by it's tail, the favourite colour's hue was inverted This was amazing news! similar tests were performed with trout,cats, and polar bears, resulting in slimey hands, an allergic reaction, and instant mauling respectively, but none of the 2 surviving subjects found their favourite colour change during the experiment. (the critically injured subject who later died was disqualified for only being able to see red)

further exploration of the genome revealed many other structures were revealed, such as that used by our internal spelling:

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typedef struct
{
     char*[] Letters
     IPolarBear Bear
} Word

as you see, we use C arrays. research has yet to determine the meaning behind the "Bear" member, as well as the real definition of the IPolarBear Interface; many are curious to see if the IPolarBear interface is merely a subclass of the IBear interface.
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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #39 on: December 23, 2008, 05:58:33 PM »
I would rather use purple, the color of Grape Wine.
(Can I do that?)   :)

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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #40 on: December 24, 2008, 11:41:37 AM »
I would rather use purple, the color of Grape Wine.
(Can I do that?)   :)

No.
This cannot be done...
You need to re-read BC's clarification on the Human genome characteristics explanation as to why this will not suffice.

More Info Here...
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« Reply #41 on: December 24, 2008, 01:16:42 PM »
Alright, seriously, did you all stick your heads in microwaves? This topic went from a good argument as to if/why XP should live to an argument that leaves me thinking "These people are all bats**t crazy!".

Anyway, got a laugh when I read this:

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Microsoft gave no reason for the support changes to Windows XP.

They need not give reason with Vista (Or in the pronunciation of Zylstra, "Veeh-Stah"). My Dell Inspiron 1720 came with Vista Home Premium, and within a few hours of use, I had come to a simple conclusion; Vista, and every trace of it needs to be sent into the sun.

I almost never found an XP sound driver for my laptop, but now I've got it archived somewhere along with the rest of the drivers, so I'm good. My laptop is about 60% faster with XP running games than in XP. Example being, with vista, the latest drivers, and everything unneeded turned off like I do in XP, Counter-Strike: Source struggled to run at medium settings. With XP, my laptop runs CS:S as it should be, full settings at 1440x900. Vista is a horrible abomination they call software, when, personally, I classify it as a virus. For one, vista eats unnecessary amounts of system resources, for two, it causes undesirable operations such as that *censored* security feature I can't remember the name of that pops up seemingly every time you move the mouse. UAC or some such crap.

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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #42 on: December 24, 2008, 02:37:40 PM »
Vista bashers need a vacation...
JMHO...
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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #43 on: December 25, 2008, 01:47:26 AM »
I must say Vista sucks. They should have just kept XP, added DVD burning support to it and call it Vista.

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Re: Why Windows XP will go on and on. Believe it or maybe!
« Reply #44 on: December 25, 2008, 01:50:13 AM »
I think it just takes some tweaking. But XP will always run faster on the same hardware... at least in for the foreseeable future, anyway.
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