Windows XP users will be lost in the iCloud

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I don't see any reason to switch to the bloated hardware hungry Windows 7, or, the new Tic-Tac-Toe Windows 8. Every application and hardware I need just runs fine

on my XP.

oh are we going to play this game are we? hmmm ok then does that mean XP is not hardware hungry, bloated OS when you compare it the days of windows 3? seriously? think before you gob off

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I don't see any reason to switch to the bloated hardware hungry Windows 7, or, the new Tic-Tac-Toe Windows 8. Every application and hardware I need just runs fine

on my XP.

How is Windows 7 bloated and hardware hungry? It has fewer built in programs than XP did (they removed Movie Maker, Outlook Express, and all that stuff) and it runs just fine on older hardware. Are you running some ancient Pentium II with 256MB of RAM or something?

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How is Windows 7 bloated and hardware hungry? It has fewer built in programs than XP did (they removed Movie Maker, Outlook Express, and all that stuff) and it runs just fine on older hardware. Are you running some ancient Pentium II with 256MB of RAM or something?

A more modern Pentium 4 mobile with 1GB of ram :-)

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Which would run better one Win7 than XP...

Not to get in the middle of the silly XP vs 7 argument (again), but I do tend to agree with that, I have 7 running on a junk tablet with a 900MHz Celeron and 512MB rather nicely. (With a couple features disabled of course, mostly indexing, the scheduled WinSAT stuff etc etc .. it's was a slow POS even when it was new) Once it's booted and settles down, it's actually rather smooth. Wellllll aside from the swap file thrashing, but with 512MB you get that in XP too.. anything bigger than Notepad wails on the swap file.

As far as iCloud goes.. /shrug always possible it'll probably work under XP with a bit of tweakage, just can't reasonably expect anybody to actually support running their software on an unsupported legacy OS that's rapidly approaching its expiration date. Have to wait and see.

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In October Windows XP will be ten years old!

Who can imagine still using Windows 95 in 2005 (ten years after it was released)?

I support the dropping of support for it, people need to upgrade, Windows 7 is everything XP was, but better.

The correct question should have been

"Who can imagine still using a crappy unstable Windows 9x kernel in 2005"

As opposed to using a stable NT Kernel in 2011

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I support the dropping of support for it, people need to upgrade, Windows 7 is everything XP was, but better.

Same here. I mean, we use XP at work and that's okay because we are a closed environment. We don't expect to upgrade to the newest features. Home users, on the other hand, should upgrade. If they don't, then they can expect to be left behind.

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Same here. I mean, we use XP at work and that's okay because we are a closed environment. We don't expect to upgrade to the newest features. Home users, on the other hand, should upgrade. If they don't, then they can expect to be left behind.

Once support runs out. I mean if they have a computer running XP and if it's running good for them, why not wait until support runs out, save your money and put that $100 towards a better machine.

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Same here. I mean, we use XP at work and that's okay because we are a closed environment. We don't expect to upgrade to the newest features. Home users, on the other hand, should upgrade. If they don't, then they can expect to be left behind.

I agree, my work is the same! A lot of the software we use is solely designed for use on a Windows XP environment! We wouldn't need the features that Windows 7 brings to the table so it really would be a costly and time consuming task for really no benefit!

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In October Windows XP will be ten years old!

Who can imagine still using Windows 95 in 2005 (ten years after it was released)?

I support the dropping of support for it, people need to upgrade, Windows 7 is everything XP was, but better.

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Look I hated Vista (Not because of what others were saying or the press, but because of my own problems with it, mainly drivers and slow performance).

But ever since 2008 and the release of Windows 7 beta, I only use Windows 7. It's stable, fast doesn't have any major compatibility problems on drivers or apps.

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I don't see any reason to switch to the bloated hardware hungry Windows 7, or, the new Tic-Tac-Toe Windows 8. Every application and hardware I need just runs fine

on my XP.

Then why bother upgrading from Windows 1.01? After all, everything I truly use on a daily basis, such as a text editor, a basic web browser, etc, works on Windows 1.01 and it's far less power hungry than XP.

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I believe text-based browsers did exist, yes. Although, back then, it would have been more in the form of browsing Telnet or BBS, not the WWW.

Right, the first browsers didn't show up till the early 90's. Those were the days.. acoustic modems, phreaking to avoid long distance bills from Bell/AT&T, ANSI art, pestering sysops to let you see their download sections, FidoNET.. fun fun.

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