He could just stay on XP it's not going to just stop working every-time I see something like this I have to wonder if my computer is going to just quit working on the dread date of 2014 or whatever date it is
Probably. My desktop will last as long as win7 God willing. But I see nothing in Win7 except longevity. I see the crunch coming when it comes time to reinstall. Those massive update downloads wont be there. I've several spare HDD satas here gathered willy nilly over time. I'm thinking of installing a working XP partitioned on each of them ready to go, current as at April 2014.
Yeah you're right. It's not gonna stop. Just like my old desktop. It has sp1 on it. Still working. But I've kept it offline. Not sure how much secure it would be to use non-supported xp sp3 online.
Yeah longevity due to security updates and patches. We being here in a prominent Security Forum should be concerned using a non-supported os without security updates and patches when connected online. Or shouldn't we?
Still using XP here. When I'm not, I'm using 98SE. Unless MS has managed to incorporate a time bomb into one of their updates that destroys the OS on that date, XP will continue to work just fine.
XP SP3 on an old machine. Scraped Vista off a couple of others to make way for 7 but left that one machine alone as it runs very well, as XP always did. philby
What would save us would be Service Pack 4 for XP. That way we could reinstall XP and then install the service packs. Anyone think it would happen?
LOL i used to,but then it was the biggest mistake ever ! No support from microsoft themselves ! Scrapped it for 32 bit version.
I dont think there will be SP4 for xp,and frankly I dont understand the talk of not using it anymore after the support ends,well i know many people who still use windows 98 without any problems,infact i my self used it untill quite a few years ago,and I intend to continue using xp on my VM even after the support ends.
The computer I use would choke on Windows 7. But the thing is, it does everything I need it to do so I have no intention of buying another computer until the one I have dies.
It could and probably will happen. For 98, there are unofficial service packs 2 and 3 which ported many XP and 2K updates to 98. The same could and probably will be done with Vista/7 updates, porting them to XP. This assumes that MS doesn't try to use piracy or intellectual property laws to prevent it. Given XPs popularity, that wouldn't surprise me either.
I got rid of XP when I mothballed my netbook last week. It's a good OS, but - Security on it is a pain - Updates are a pain - Driver management is a pain - Software management is a pain - Peripheral hardware support is a pain - Lack of OS featuers is a pain - Lack of a good UNIX-compatible CLI is a pain - Having to make a separate system image for each computer it's installed on is a pain - Even installing it is a pain! Basically the OS is just too annoying to justify my using it as a desktop any more, compared to Windows 7 or modern Linux distros. That said, I will keep it around for VMs just in case the need arises.
