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| Thread ID: 135467 | 2013-11-06 01:44:00 | Still a lot of people and businesses slow to see the value in moving up from XP.. | Webdevguy (17166) | PC World Chat |
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| 1358910 | 2013-11-06 17:33:00 | You can make 8.1 boot directly to the desktop just like every other previous OS. The other day I setup a New 8.1 for a person, put all their shortcuts on the desktop like they had in W7, set it to boot to desktop. As the person commented -- whats the problem it works exactly like what I had, only faster. ? The person even had the exact same shutdown method that he asked for a few years back, one icon on the taskbar, 1 click - shutdown. I have done that but when you do end up in the tile screen its so not intuitive, yes you can swipe programs closed but then you find out there not actually closed when you want to delete a file that's still open in them but hidden. Unless I'm missing something I really don't see the point of dual desktop modes |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1358911 | 2013-11-06 18:02:00 | We've had a bunch of new hardware installed at work over the last 2 years, some within the last 2 months. These machines come with their control systems pre-installed on a Windows PC, and only one of them has Win7, the others are all WinXP, and I'd be loathe to risk upsetting things by trying to update the OS. We need something that works, not the latest and flakiest OS. XP fits the bill still. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 1358912 | 2013-11-06 19:39:00 | I'm on Win7 at home and XP at my client's site. Thankfully, my client is just starting a migration of all desktops and laptops to Win 7 in the next month or so. Looking forward to everything except the loss of my local admin rights (stupid policy just means that people will try workarounds - like portable apps!!) :( |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1358913 | 2013-11-06 20:25:00 | XP, vista, 7, 8 or 8.1 IT DOESN'T MATTER they all have the convenient governmental backdoors installed. and the article whines about security LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL rooted by default; its your only option; not even linux is spared from this one. |
Mirddes (10) | ||
| 1358914 | 2013-11-06 21:28:00 | XP, vista, 7, 8 or 8.1 IT DOESN'T MATTER they all have the convenient governmental backdoors installed. Oh man you really bought into the scaremongering didn't you :lol: |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1358915 | 2013-11-06 22:35:00 | My computer went from XP to Win7 in 2010. Once ina blue moon I might need to boot XP to check some old stuff out but I find it fine. Does everything I need. Business might switch to Win7 if they need certification of some sort. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1358916 | 2013-11-06 22:46:00 | Business might switch to Win7 if they need certification of some sort. I think it has more to do with MS wanting to milk the desktop OS cash cow for as long as they can since they have more legacy stuff that costs them money to maintain than new product revenue streams that add to the shrinking cash cow. Businesses are outfitting their employees with new tools and software and developing new services all the time, just not using ways that involve MS as much as they used to in the late 90's or early 2000's. | Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1358917 | 2013-11-06 23:14:00 | What will happen , is hardware manufactures will start to abandon all support for XP. No XP drivers on new hardware, old drivers may just disappear of websites. It wont be an issue untill a Win Reload is done or a device starts playing up. But at that stage most people would give up XP, rather than fix/repair. Same with 3rd party software, help desks will just start saying no support for software installed on XP . |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1358918 | 2013-11-06 23:26:00 | I think that is happening already with new websites being built using HTML5, CSS3 etc why by default won't show properly on any browser older than IE9 so that CSS3 effects like different fonts, rounded corners, transparent borders or backgrounds etc wont show up on IE8/XP. The websites still function, they just look pretty basic. | Webdevguy (17166) | ||
| 1358919 | 2013-11-06 23:43:00 | I was using Windows 2000 on a old laptop until 2008 they started abandoning it - IE browser, MSN Messenger, Skype at least Firefox did. If you redid the system you had to look for the archives. They didn't even install. Doesn't the office now require Vista at least now ... | Nomad (952) | ||
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