R.I.P. Win XP

[Anomander]

I felt sad when I was changing NC / Win 3.11 to 95 - same goes when 98 push it away
then I cry after installing ME - and when I was changing back to 98 SE I thought that I will never change OS.

But then XP came - SP1, SP2 and I was forced to leave 98 for XP
occasionally on my laptops/pc I had several versions of Linux and also I was beta-tester of Win7
And I do not feel sorry or sad anymore, since after all it's only OS not human being or pet.

Nowadays on my newest laptop I have Win 8 - and I'm quite pleased with it
yet on my old PC I still using it with SP3.

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[Rebirth]

I do have another machine, though, which is about twenty years old and runs Windows 98 SE. It might have a 75 Mhz Intel Processor and 40.5 MB of RAM, but it still works just fine.

Lol, a machine that has no backdoor nor malware on it pre-installed to the kernel... you should keep it, though

And about XP, it's not dead and won't die unless people start forgetting about it and all the possibilities that are offered - even along these years, yeah you heard right. You can simply use a Virtual Machine to browse the web, while still using XP as running OS, this way you would be "absolutely" secure and still profit from all benefits -like efficience that WinXP is giving you. Though you guys should get Windows8.1... If you should not get used to the new Win8.1 design, then microsoft will force you to do so by stopping to release updates for older OS versions. It's simple as that. Windows 7 won't last 20 years like XP did...

Go install Vista, then come back and tell me again how bad Win8.1 is, yes?

PS; XP will last even longer, aslong people continue to releas their own modded version(s) of it.

[Mickk]

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I do have another machine, though, which is about twenty years old and runs Windows 98 SE. It might have a 75 Mhz Intel Processor and 40.5 MB of RAM, but it still works just fine.

Many, MANY years ago, when I worked in a friends computer shop, we would occasionally get 'older' people come in looking for a computer and they would almost always say the same thing when we asked what they wanted it for..... 'just something to type letters on'.

We would go out the back and find just about any parts that would work as a computer, load some basic software onto it and sell it to them, for a stupidly cheap price usually.

Normally we gave them DOS and a couple of other basic word processing packages.

This is back when you needed about three extra boards (I/O boards) to get a computer to do anything and 8 MB of ram was a huge amount.

As for upgrading my OS.... just how reliable is Win 7?

I have a habit of not turning my PC off at all, I have no idea what the longest time is my PC has been 'up', but I actually turned it off on purpose last week as the mother was cutting hair and her electric hair cutter makes my surge protector go off. lol

If I was to make a guesstimate..... a minimum of 3 to 4 weeks constant up time would run close.

Basically, I'm looking for 2 things; stability and reliability, I already know Win 7 is easy to use, my laptop came with Win 7 installed.

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It has occurred to me that whenever something old gets replaced by something new a lot of people, I dare say, a majority always complain and say how much better the old product was and how crappy the new product is, from games to operating systems, to cars, literally everything regardless of the product's actual quality.

Agreed, some of the new stuff is crap and old stuff got replaced by the worse, but that is seldom the case, I like like 99% of the new stuff.

I am actually glad to have gotten rid of Windows XP. It was a great system for it's time but compared to modern systems it's slow, bugged and a malware/virus sex slave.

I now own a legal copy Windows 7 and I couldn't be happier, it is faster, easier to use, and more stable than Windows XP ever was, at least it seems so to me.

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As for upgrading my OS.... just how reliable is Win 7?

It is the most reliable OS I have ever used. I never tried Win10 yet but Win7 is more stable than Win8 and Win8.1 in my case.

[Tarator]

It has occurred to me that whenever something old gets replaced by something new a lot of people, I dare say, a majority always complain and say how much better the old product was and how crappy the new product is, from games to operating systems, to cars, literally everything regardless of the product's actual quality.

Thats usually because most new products that are supposed to replace obsolete ones, are in fact flawed and designed towards degradation and in some cases uselessness, since their creators tend to abandon what they've learned from their now-obsolete products in the past that were successful for their time.

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[Quetz]

I've been considering to what my xp should be replaced with. I dislike newer windows editions(there are many reasons to it). Maybe Linux is a good choice for a low end user like me..

Pardon me for my inadequate english.

[Swallow]

RIP XP, hail Jessie.

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[Baby Bonnie Hood]

feels pic

You're doing a horrible injustice. Windows XP deserves much better than an overdone rage face with overdone meme captions generated by overdone meme sites. It shouldn't just be relegated into a generic feels thread along with all the other generic feels stuff that casual people just slap that generic rage face onto and call it feels. In fact, can we stop calling it feels? Because both the word and the face used to represent it have been repeated over and over for so long that they've lost all value and meaning. And I for one don't want Win XP to lose all value and meaning.

Honestly, a simple ;_; would suffice. Thanks for all the good times, Windows XP.