I purchased my XP desktop in 2007, to this day, I haven't had any kind of hardware problems. Upgrading it to W7 is easy but the truth is that I like XP too much and just don't want to upgrade it. I gotten to like my W7 laptop a lot, when the old XP starts giving me problems, at that time, if new W7 desktops are still available, that's what I ll get. End of support for XP from MS will have nothing to do on when I ll stop using the old, easy to use and reliable XP. Bo
Support from Microsoft has no bearing on whether or not I will keep XP. I will run XP till my XP box takes a crap or I decide and can afford a newer box, but not until one or the other happens, not when I'm told I need to change.
Well I'm running 2 computers with Windows 7 and 1 real old computer with Windows XP. The Dell XP computer came with a Windows Vista upgrade disk. I don't think the computers strong enough for Vista but if I have any problems with it, I'll see how much the computer bounces after I throw it out the attic window! Going from Win XP to Vista, isn't that like going from Win 7 to Win 8 ?
Not at all. XP is really old compared to Vista, Win7/8:release years are 2001/2007/2009/2012 respectively. Windows started a new generation of OSs with Vista, as a matter of fact Vista and Win 7 are very similar. If you want to install Vista on your Dell, you need to have at least 2 GB of RAM memory otherwise the computer might slowdown considerably.
I will keep XP as long as possible, because I see no reason to "upgrade" yet. When the hardware I will buy in the future will no longer support XP or when my favourite games/apps will do the same, then it will be time to think about a new OS.
I have 4 GB of RAM but a small processor. I've installed Vista on my old computer and it's working good so far. It looks like I'll not be using XP anymore.
I've XP x64, Win7 x64,Win8.1 x64, Ubuntu 12.10 x64 in my harddrive. I love to swimming around the cyber parallel worlds. I do not keep because of no choices. I do not keep because of prefer XP. I keep because of I'm making software site. It's obviously for me the scan these files for XP,Vista,Win7,Win8,Win8.1 supports. I also have a project to make supports for mac(.dmg) & linux(.deb) either not just "Windows (.exe, .msi)
No. When support ends I'll be moving on to Windows 7 Pro 32-bit. I may let XP hang around for a month or two if I'm too busy to get to it right away, but when the opportunity is there I'll do it. Already have the disc just sitting there collecting dust.
After reading the other responses I realized if taking the OP literally, I will indeed continue using XP after it's EOL. As a VM to test things out and as a retro gaming console for old games & emulators... offline on an old Dell Dimension I have. But the box I'm using now has specs that can handle Win7 just fine (4 GB RAM, 2.83 ghz Core 2 Duo CPU) so I'll be upgrading it and using it for my web activities. I can even upgrade it to 8 gigs of RAM if I one day decide to go x64, so I'll have this box for quite awhile. So in some regard XP will still be with me possibly forever. Cuz I love my retro games. But I've become convinced that having an unpatched OS facing the net isn't a good idea.
My desktop is a XP machine. I mostly use it as a backup of my data. My main machine is a windows 7 laptop.
I just setup an older unused laptop(2005) with an unused XP Prof. license I have. Possibily out of curiousity and maybe for testing out things only.
According to Kaspersky Lab 18% of users are running Windows XP Platform worldwide during the last 30 days. Windows XP Pro (16%) Windows XP Home (2%) http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208214211/The_End_of_Microsofts_Support_for_Windows_XP#page_top Other statements made in this report... some may not agree with. I'll be keeping a backup of XP and possibly dual boot with Linux Mint after EOL support ends.
I have secured XP on 2 family laptops. These laptops are so old that they will probably die in the next 6 months (orange glow on the screen), so there is no point of doing any kind of upgrade. I have secured XP by installing BitDefender Safeplay on laptop 1 along with K9 Web protection and Google Chrome. This one is for banking and I think it's secure enough for the time being. Windows updates stopped working for some reason but that's okay. On the 2nd laptop which is only used for playing music, I have installed K9 web protection only.
i use xp + linux because i like using linux and sometimes some software ran on xp so i do need windows as well using offline although i have windows vista + linux combination too but i still like xp over vista
I currently have two Windows XP Pro 32 bit PC's and one Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit PC. The Windows XP Pro 32 bit PC's hardware years are 2006 & 2008. I am tempted to upgrade the hardware of these two PC's, but they still have good performance.
I don't currently use XP. But, it is installed on a laptop which I don't use and will in time install Windows 8 on. However, if I did still use XP, I would most definitely not stop using it due to MS dropping support. However, the reality is that I ditched XP years ago because subsequent operating systems from MS have been much better than XP in my opinion. That's not looking at them from a security stand point, but from a usability point of view, as for better or worse, security is not a consideration when I choose an OS.
Be careful when updating that to Win 8.1 if you choose to. Check if the Laptop Manufacturer provide drivers compatible with Win 8.1 I had installed Win 8. The drivers ran fine and everything was good. But when updated to 8.1, the bluetooth doesn't work and the driver is incompatible. All the drivers were compatible with Win 7. But they also supported up to Win 8. Since your laptop has Win XP I guess it would also support up to Win 7. Just my two cents.
Lenovo does provide some Windows 8.1 drivers for my laptop, but they are for things like power management, rather than being actual device drivers for networking, video or sound, etc. However, I'm confident that any needed drivers will be available from Windows Update, or from the individual device manufacturers. Windows 8.1 is running fine for me on a 7 1/2 year old Toshiba Qosmio laptop, and under Device Manager there are no missing drivers. Edit: In general, unless you have a current model laptop, the manufacturer will almost certainly not provide Windows 8.1 specific drivers. This usually won't be a problem as the drivers supplied by the manufacturer are almost always outdated anyway.
Ah that's great. Good to hear that. I also have everything under the Device Manager except for of course the bluetooth. I had formatted and freshly installed Win 8 many times. Nothing ever went missing. But now in Win 8.1 bluetooth is missing. That's what I don't get. The drivers are already outdated. Yet they worked fine and was supposed to work fine in Win 8.1 as well. But didn't happen. Do you think formatting and freshly re-installing Win 8 and updating to Win 8.1 again would solve the prob and may restore bluetooth?
There's no reason for them not to work when they are outdated. Sometimes newer versions will include bug or security fixes. Absolutely not, you would be wasting your time. Did you try installing the generic driver I posted link to?
