Microsoft will not extend availability of XP

[Raa]

I disagree, I'm still selling pcs with XP on them, in fact trade for XP licenses and computers has INCREASED since Vista has come out. The public agrees : they DONT want Vista. Simple.

Runs fine on a core duo 1.8 with 1gb ram? Geez, I need to find out how you're doing that. Repeatedly is slow on systems much faster than that.

XP ftw, and imo, will be for a while. SP2 anyone? :/

[loligoth]

No one, because that statement is true.

It depends on whether you see it in terms of absolute sales number, or the relative adoption rate. I guess MS see the former while many people see it the latter way.

[Krome]

This post kinda contradicts the main site headline. "Microsoft Extends Life of Windows XP"

[DELTETHISACCOUNT]

Runs fine on a core duo 1.8 with 1gb ram? Geez, I need to find out how you're doing that. Repeatedly is slow on systems much faster than that.

It runs perfectly like a champ on my sis's AMD Sempron 1.8 Ghz. Aero enabled and everything. She instantly fell in love with it and decided not to downgrade back to XP. And she's only 12.

I think you're just using it wrong. :p

[Unto Darkness]

Wait, so will I or will I not be able to purchase a retail copy of Windows XP Home after June 30?

This post kinda contradicts the main site headline. "Microsoft Extends Life of Windows XP"

No it doesn't. What this post says is that the life of Windows XP Home will be extended and not the other versions. The news article confirms this fact [Life of Windows XP Home is extended].

[Badtz-Maru]

This post kinda contradicts the main site headline. "Microsoft Extends Life of Windows XP"

so what is it?

[rtk]

I disagree, I'm still selling pcs with XP on them, in fact trade for XP licenses and computers has INCREASED since Vista has come out. The public agrees : they DONT want Vista. Simple.

I disagree, the buying public has become a touch confused by the successful anti-vista campaign, but they quickly figure out it's all FUD once they actually use Vista for a few minutes.

I'd guess your own bias against vista is showing through on your sales, hopefully you don't have a customer backlash after they figure out you were wrong.

[+mrbester MVC]

...Runs fine on a core duo 1.8 with 1gb ram? Geez, I need to find out how you're doing that. Repeatedly is slow on systems much faster than that.

It's not just the CPU but the other components that play a major factor. As someone who sells PCs you should know that.

My 1.8GHz Core 2 Duo rig scored 4.8 when it had just 1GB RAM in it (which I upgraded to 2.5 [one 512MB stick died on me]) and as such ran quite nicely. After the upgrade it ran better due to the increased RAM but the index was still 4.8, purely because of the processor (all other scores were 5.9 across the board before upgrade and after, and why shouldn't they be?).

Full Aero with DreamScene and sidebar enabled before and after; the ONLY thing I did was increase the RAM. Of course when I dual boot into XP (or Server 2003) it screams along with the extra RAM and reset settings like pagefile size.

[NEVER85]

Good. XP should just get SP3 and be done with it. It's an obsolete operating system.

[Pablo2008jedi]

I was once a Vista Basher I'll admit that, I mainly used Vista on VMware at work, it ran slow (obviously) I didn't like the UI and the new Explorer...but.....

I have a new PC at home now with Vista premium, I mainly play games and was ready to install XP for that performance boast...but I thought, lets just see how it goes....and its is actually a good OS, boot time is increadably fast. I thopugh UAC would be a pain,but after the initail configuration of the PC I don't get bothered by it (and its ON as default, i.e. no configuration, its set to prompt) The sidebar (which I thought would bya fad) is actually useful.

So I have converted to a Vista owner, so much so I am think of installing it at work to develope on rather than XP :)

[ApuBo]

I used to say that win98se was better than XP in 2001.. used 98 to 2003 then XP..

since vista came i use dual boot =) never (almost) had problem with it :p

so i dont care wicth i use now, as long those both can play programs i use. and games :D .

[Rudy]

Sadly I'm forced to use Vista because of my DLink wireless card, they only have 64bit drivers for Vista (I don't understand why they don't have any for XP x64)

[Rudy]

Good. XP should just get SP3 and be done with it. It's an obsolete operating system.

what can you do on Vista that you can't do on XP? not much, DirectX10 but it *could* run on XP....

[mtber]

Vista is a very good operating system in my opinion works great if your doing everyday things like email, word processing, web surfing things like that it works fine very compatable with all new devices is a very good OS.

My problem with vista is the compatability with older video games i have noticed that very few older games work with vista that is a problem seeing is i still like to play games like BF2 and the older C&C games because of that i am still running XP Pro. Where i work we are not switching to Vista because of the problems with networking, security and program compatability. Vista is a very good OS. for the everyday consumer who uses their computer to do basic operations.

[KeeperOfThePizza]

Microsoft is cutting the cord on Windows XP rather quickly...

[Unto Darkness]

Microsoft is cutting the cord on Windows XP rather quickly...

Quickly? Its almost 6 years! :huh:

[Chicane-UK Veteran]

Just buy a pre-owned copy off eBay, or make your point heard and switch to an alternative OS. There has never been a better time.

I use Vista at work but don't find it a particularly revelatory experience - I just use it because its free for me to move over from XP to Vista and I figure I might as well get as familiar as possible with Microsofts 'latest and greatest'.

[Beastage]

It's a shame you have to get stuck with one OS when you buy a PC rather than having a choice or being able to buy it with no OS installed. According to Microsoft buying a PC with no OS means you are a pirate though. That's another great thing about building your own. Put any OS you choose on it, and Ballmer and company can go jump in a volcano.

What does has to do with MS?! MS dont make PCs... period.

[aclarke_31]

Why phase off an operating system that's reliable and usable. The reason why no-one wants to upgrade to Vista is because of the lack of features upgrading.

Look at Microsoft's history here

Win95 -> Win98 - More stable, quicker

Win98 -> Win2000 - Hardware Level support

Win2000 -> WinXP - Hardware Support with better software support for gaming

WinXP -> Vista - ?????

I just cannot see the advantages of upgrading to Vista when Windows XP does everything that Vista can do.

So what if it has a nice front end and some added functionality, but what makes Vista so much better than XP?

The problem here is that Microsoft pulled a lot of stuff they said they were going to include in Vista, and because of this users don't see or feel the need to upgrade to a newer version.

This isn't a flame, I'm just trying to give my $0.02.

Thanks for listening :)

EDIT: If someone wants to put me in my place and give me a good reason to upgrade, please feel free and I'll take on board all comments, I just don't understand what makes Vista so unique from its predecessor.

[Krpano]

Just want to give my opinion here too.

Vista sucks, its a memory hog...full of useless services and security features that makes the OS slow.

XP was a huge step, but Vista doesnt bring anything that worth the upgrade for an average user.

After using Vista for 4 months i moved back to XP Pro SP2, which is MUCH faster.

Anyway, thats for my Windows partition which is still required for gaming a bit, unfortunately.

Of course im a linux user.

Im not trolling, its just my experience with it.

period

[mad_onion]

there isn't any particularly amazing reason. for me if i had to give the one thing that make vista worth having its networking. its so much better organised in vista and easier to use. oh and if you have 4GBs of ram and so should to go with 64bit then vista is a must as the 64bit version of xp has rubbish driver support.

but no i agree with you there isn't any point upgrading to vista on your current machine. it probably won't run that well. but if your buying a new pc that's powerful then vista is the way to go imo.

[Premgenius]

:(

[Glifford]

Dix: Since its launch, Windows Vista has become the fastest-selling operating system in Microsoft history.

Does this consider the fact that Windows XP was released almost 7 years ago, when the consumer market for computers itself was smaller?

[spacer]

There will always be alternative ways to get XP other than through Microsoft. This news doesn't bother me at all.

[C_Guy]

According to Microsoft buying a PC with no OS means you are a pirate though.

Get your facts straight. They have never said that because it's not true.

Ballmer and company can go jump in a volcano.

Real grown up ;)