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Thread ID: 136522	2014-03-09 02:13:00	XP support ends on April 8th !	Digby (677)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1369830	2014-03-09 04:53:00	MS has well and truly missed the boat on getting good revues for any current or future OS's that they release. The last time they got any decent user reviews was in 2001 when XP came out. They blew any chance they had with the bloated mess that was Vista. From that point on people either decided to hold on till MS released something decent or look at other alternatives and since the iPad has been out there have been numerous alternatives that have allowed customers to switch or try something better. Android's numerous tablets or Chrome books being just two examples, any you only need one decent option to leave Windows. Well said. I know that XP was a massive undertakign for them, as they had to write a modern os ontop of old crap, and then remove the old crap. But yes, they do seem to have lost their mojo since them.	Digby (677)
1369831	2014-03-09 05:23:00	Wasn't XP a mess until SP2?	icow (15313)
1369832	2014-03-09 05:43:00	I have a friend who uses an XP computer. He has no internet connection and doesn't want one. All he uses it for is writing letters, storing some photos and keeping track of his expenditure using Microsoft Money. Yes I know he is missing a lot but it's his choice If that is all he uses it for, I can't see what he's missing out on, apart from the annoyance of upgrading and the potential compatibility problems. Well said. I know that XP was a massive undertakign for them, as they had to write a modern os ontop of old crap, and then remove the old crap. But yes, they do seem to have lost their mojo since them. I'd say XP was their best OS so far. Win7 comes a close 2nd with new features but due to the 'user-friendly' stupidizing of the interface, it loses to XP, where everything actually makes sense.	Agent_24 (57)
1369833	2014-03-09 05:45:00	Wasn't XP a mess until SP2? It got better as it went on - So yes. NO OS is perfect from the start. Early versions of XP were total :yuck:, its easy to see when installing from fresh ( pre sp1) then upgrade to what ever is current ;)	wainuitech (129)
1369834	2014-03-09 05:48:00	I still have two laptops and a desktop (actually underdesk) PC running XP. One laptop only has XP, the other 2 have Linux as well. The large desktop has W7 and a coupe of flavours of Linux. XP is quite suitable because of it's low hardware demands and timing stability. Some of my most favoured programs require XP, W7 is unusable, and W8 takes a lot of fiddling to be a sort of crappy pretense at being W7, but needs a bit more hardware to do it. Neither W7 nor W8 is any practical use for machine control, so W7 as the lesser of 2 evils for playing occasional games and feeding a video card that eats electricity, it has a couple of good features that are a step up from XP. XP losing MS support fails utterly to fill me with alarm. For everything I do that W7 is handy at, Linux does it more cheerfully for me, and for the Windoze programs that I like XP is needed to run them. For Apple stuff, even if they call it OSXXX and give away free tin whistles, I won't be partaking. SWMBO likes it though. So, just for my preferences (quite a serious factor when it is my $$) XP is still an upgrade to W7, which is itself an upgrade of W8. W7 for playing, XP for actual work. YMMV :)	R2x1 (4628)
1369835	2014-03-09 05:54:00	@R2x1 Yes I think most of us on PC World have Underdesktops.!! Very clever! But wasn't XP rushed out before all the drivers were available. To em that was its only problem. And Windiows 7 handles large folders much better than XP. So to me W7 is the best OS - aside from all the "You need permissions to do this" crap.	Digby (677)
1369836	2014-03-09 06:14:00	So to me W7 is the best OS - aside from all the "You need permissions to do this" crap. Windows XP has file permissions as well, but IMO Windows 7 handles (and uses) them far better. How anyone could say Windows XP is an upgrade from Windows 7 is beyond me...	pcuser42 (130)
1369837	2014-03-09 06:18:00	Windows XP has file permissions as well, but IMO Windows 7 handles (and uses) them far better. Windows XP doesn't have UAC though.	Agent_24 (57)
1369838	2014-03-09 06:23:00	Well said. I know that XP was a massive undertakign for them, as they had to write a modern os ontop of old crap, and then remove the old crap. But yes, they do seem to have lost their mojo since them. The other problem that they will continue to suffer from is that they are a company that attempts to design by committee and they try to come up with a design that pleases everybody.... the end result is that they are a directionless ship with a captan that can't decide which route is best. Mean while there is a whole stack of more nimble super yachts that continue to carry their users towards more favourable destinations. The best thing MS could have done after XP would have been to throw out the old code and start from a blank page. The unfortunate side effect of this would have been that it would have pissed of their large corporate customers who page huge license fees to Microsoft for its Office and Server software. As it is now, MS are between a rock and a hard place.	Webdevguy (17166)
1369839	2014-03-09 06:45:00	Windows XP doesn't have UAC though. It's barely noticeable on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Plus it can be turned off...	pcuser42 (130)
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