• Windows XP at risk as antivirus vendors jump ship
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[QUOTE=rhx123;40511446]Yeah great logic, thank goodness we are still using horse and cart to get from A to B, that works perfectly, why should we upgrade when we can stick with something old, and unstable! If you're still running XP era hardware then fair enough, but really there's no excuse aside from a program not working in 7 not to upgrade now if the hardware can take it.[/QUOTE] Fair enough. I'll remember to upgrade to Windows 7 the next time I use Office 2000.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems[/url] iOS - 59.04% That's pretty discusting that iOS is more dominate than android.
The only thing that keeps me from switching to Win7 is the fact that I've got to delete all the junk I have on one of my two partitions. Both of them are full, so I can't copy them on the other one I have. Maybe when I get a new HDD. [sub][sub][sub]that's right, it's mostly porn, and it's not the one you can find everywhere online.[/sub][/sub][/sub]
I got lucky with Windows, this guy that works with me in my schools IT project has a Father which is partnered up with Microsoft...He gave me like 30 keys of Win7, 15 keys of Win8 they are those premium things that you can install onto 15 computers. [B]EDIT[/B] Gonna post a picture of 1 key for you all. I think it's Windows 7 might be Windows 8 I'm not sure because I didn't mark the pictures. [IMG]http://puu.sh/2M3KD.jpg[/IMG] I think this will go up to 15 computers, so use it once so more people can get their hands on it. Have fun.
[QUOTE=BlackMac;40514847]I got lucky with Windows, this guy that works with me in my schools IT project has a Father which is partnered up with Microsoft...He gave me like 30 keys of Win7, 15 keys of Win8 they are those premium things that you can install onto 15 computers. [B]EDIT[/B] Gonna post a picture of 1 key for you all. I think it's Windows 7 might be Windows 8 I'm not sure because I didn't mark the pictures. [IMG]http://puu.sh/2M3KD.jpg[/IMG] I think this will go up to 15 computers, so use it once so more people can get their hands on it. Have fun.[/QUOTE] lawls, I think I got one of those keys for free through dreamspark
Hopefully this is good blow to my college who still cling on to using XP as it is especially important to me as an IT student that I can learn using the latest stuff.
[QUOTE=Genericenemy;40515674]Hopefully this is good blow to my college who still cling on to using XP as it is especially important to me as an IT student that I can learn using the latest stuff.[/QUOTE] Only ones at the university who use XP are the library catalog computers (which don't have internet access). I'm sure there are a few students and teachers who still use XP on their personal systems, but the school issues Windows 7 and OSX laptops and workstations.
Every comments sections for software/video games "DOES IT RUN ON XP PLS RESPOND" "IT DOESNT WORK ON XP HALP HALP PLZ HELP" "BR? BR? DOES NOT WERK ON XP HELP"
The self check out registers at the Walmart I work at run xp and they get blue screens sometimes
[QUOTE=BlackMac;40514847]I got lucky with Windows, this guy that works with me in my schools IT project has a Father which is partnered up with Microsoft...He gave me like 30 keys of Win7, 15 keys of Win8 they are those premium things that you can install onto 15 computers. [B]EDIT[/B] Gonna post a picture of 1 key for you all. I think it's Windows 7 might be Windows 8 I'm not sure because I didn't mark the pictures. [IMG]http://puu.sh/2M3KD.jpg[/IMG] I think this will go up to 15 computers, so use it once so more people can get their hands on it. Have fun.[/QUOTE] How do I use this? Implying it's still available.
[QUOTE=rikimaru6811;40516185]How do I use this? Implying it's still available.[/QUOTE] Acquire an install of windows 7/8 and use the key when it tells you to register it. I'm sure one of your friends* has a disk lying around somewhere.
What are the limitations to Windows 8 Pro compared to 7 Professional/Enterprise/Ultimate?
come at me
I've dressed in my best and am prepared to go down with this ship as a gentleman.
I had a feeling the general consensus would be that this was a good thing when I came into this thread. It may be a good thing for the advancement of the PC, but it kind of brings me down as an individual XP user. I can't upgrade past XP on my old laptop, and I can't afford a new laptop anytime within the next 2-3 years. Oh well. I can only hope Malwarebytes and Avira stick around XP for just a bit longer. At least I have 7 on my desktop.
That's ok av developers don't have to stick with it [I]just like XP users have no obligation to switch over to something they don't want to[/I]
[QUOTE=Corey_Faure;40516961]I had a feeling the general consensus would be that this was a good thing when I came into this thread. It may be a good thing for the advancement of the PC, but it kind of brings me down as an individual XP user. I can't upgrade past XP on my old laptop, and I can't afford a new laptop anytime within the next 2-3 years. Oh well. I can only hope Malwarebytes and Avira stick around XP for just a bit longer. At least I have 7 on my desktop.[/QUOTE] Linux Mint
[QUOTE=Rika-chan;40517302]Linux Mint[/QUOTE] Thanks for that, I'll remember that OS if my laptop's current OS installation becomes problematic. I've got 512 MB RAM on there and Mint requires just that.
[QUOTE=Sword and Paint;40514660][URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems[/URL] iOS - 59.04% That's pretty discusting that iOS is more dominate than android.[/QUOTE] who cares about what OS you use on your smartphone iOS isn't a bad UNIX-based OS but i just don't use it because i don't care for it
I better sell all these P4 boxes fast then.
[QUOTE=Jsm;40510613]Surely there can't be [I]that[/I] many out there still, Microsoft have been trying to get companies to make the move for a few years now.[/QUOTE] I'd say 3/4 of the businesses i go out to and support have mainly windows xp machines. That doesn't mean i buy them windows xp machines when one of theirs craps out. They get windows 7. [editline]3rd May 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Jsm;40513874]2008 isn't that bad [B]imo[/B], its my (Windows) server OS of choice. 2012 is god awful though, maybe I did something bad but they appear to have put metro onto it.[/QUOTE] i also prefer 2008, havent had the chance to get my hands on 2012 yet though.
I have several old computers at home that can't run anything better than XP, and I work at a company where all the old machines are XP and the new ones Win7, about a half-and-half split. XP was and still is an immensely popular OS with a fairly large number of machines still running it, mostly because it was 6 years before MS tried to replace it, and 8 before they had a replacement that businesses liked, not to mention mass upgrades of PC OSes in businesses are an absolute logistical nightmare, software needs to be reinstalled, some of it doesn't work, people need to back up their data, and you need to upgrade in waves to impact productivity as little as possible, which leads to logistical issues when half the people have the old shit and half the new shit. XP likely won't be going anywhere for about another 5 years, due to how many machines at businesses still use it, and how reluctant many corporations and their employees can be to upgrade if it means needing to buy and re-train everyone on a new OS and new software. Businesses still use software designed for Win95/98 that's considered essential and sometimes irreplaceable, and that kind of software sometimes won't run, or runs with difficulty, on Win7.
I like Windows XP, but maybe now my school will upgrade the rest of their computers. We're using XP on machines built for Vista and 7. If they upgraded the software to Windows 7, that would be fine. I guess. [B]Edit:[/B] But in my opinion, Windows 98 is still the best version.
How much is this actually a problem? Am I gonna have to force my parents to upgrade their old as crap machine after this version of norton, or before?
Virtualized Windows XP makes a good platform for running legacy software. Like a bridge between now and yesteryear. Windows 7 has always virtualized poorly (despite running great as a host) for me. Windows 8 seems stable in a VM though, but that defeats the point of using it for legacy software. That said, I would never install Windows XP onto an actual piece of hardware if at all possible. All of my real machines now run Windows 8. My server is humming along with Windows Server 2012.
[QUOTE=rikimaru6811;40516185]How do I use this? Implying it's still available.[/QUOTE] Can't check if the key has been used up, but you can get the image install from Microsoft and just type in that key. I did it for Windows 8, not sure if you can download the image install for Windows 7 from Microsoft.
Yeah, MS lets you download windows 7 ISOs [url]http://malwaretips.com/blogs/download-windows-7-sp1-iso/[/url] Links are in there.
I personally like Windows 7, but the reason my friends are stuck on XP is because: 'Windows 7 is poorly designed', 'it eats so many resources' and 'it's very unsafe.'
Moved to 7 from XP a month ago, best decision ever.
The computer I am currently using has Windows XP and 256 megabytes of ram. I can run everything in my steam library with little to no lag or graphical issues. Come at me.
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