"Shit, for some reason people don't want to drop a wad of cash on a upgrade that provides no benefit to them and may not run effectively on their hardware. I don't understand it! Haven't these jerks heard of progress?"
Despite Attempts to Get Users To Upgrade From XP, 30% Still Use It
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Re: Despite Attempts to Get Users To Upgrade From XP, 30% Still Use It
#42Why do I still use Windows XP? Because Microsoft charges too much for Windows-8. Right now I am running XP in virtual box on my Linux workstation, and everything works fine. Why would I pay to upgrade to Windows-8 knowing that I might have trouble installing Windows-8 in virtualbox. There is no point.
If you have no use for Windows 8 that makes it worth buying, and no problem with running an unsupported OS, why are you even commenting?
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Re: Despite Attempts to Get Users To Upgrade From XP, 30% Still Use It
#43I'm one of those people unfortunately.
XP was all I needed for a decade. My firewall which has thousands of rules does not work with anything newer and other firewalls suck today, very badly.
I have many many programs which are licensed and I do not want to have to try to find the key for each one again, heck find the program again, only to find out it doesn't work beyond XP.
XP was just a launching UI for me, really could not care about how it looked. I have it very locked down and very tweaked.
And I really do not want to lose the months of getting something configured again. But come mid-April I won't have a choice.
Re: Despite Attempts to Get Users To Upgrade From XP, 30% Still Use It
#44Still think Microsoft should open source XP. They have no interest in developing it despite user demand, let someone else take over.
Do you really believe there is any sort of significant demand for XP? Maybe you could make an argument for 7, but really the almost 13 year old Windows XP?
Hey, look, there's a link to an article up there! Let's read it together: "Currently, the more than a decade old OS still has a market share of 29.53%." Wow!
Re: Despite Attempts to Get Users To Upgrade From XP, 30% Still Use It
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't either, but not just because the the bugs. The whole focus on tablets and touch screens is a big turn off to most businesses I would think. Even though Microsoft is finally considering switching 8 to more of a classic style, I think it's too late for that.
It's not too late at all. Microsoft has had a number of "skip this version" Windows versions, and the subseqent release has done well. WinXP did well despite WinME, Win7 has done well despite Vista, and Win8.1 or Win9 will probably do well despite Win8.
I have no doubt that Microsoft will do well on future editions despite Windows 8. What I do think is that anything with Windows 8 in it's name is always going to have the touchscreen/tablet stigma attached to it.
Re: Despite Attempts to Get Users To Upgrade From XP, 30% Still Use It
#46at this point they should be treated like ie6 users. Its been 15 years
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Re: Despite Attempts to Get Users To Upgrade From XP, 30% Still Use It
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
How else do you test on IE?
http://modern.ie/ ? Microsoft's got VMs for almost every IE/OS combination you could want. Edit: meaning, why are you limiting yourself to just XP. I realize that was unclear.
Huh? I am using VMs from modern.ie (among others). You need XP to run IE8. The IE8 VM is XP.
Re: Despite Attempts to Get Users To Upgrade From XP, 30% Still Use It
#48Re: Despite Attempts to Get Users To Upgrade From XP, 30% Still Use It
#49Still think Microsoft should open source XP. They have no interest in developing it despite user demand, let someone else take over.
Yes. Let them just give away a viable alternative to one of their primary revenue sources.
What a fantastic idea; I wonder why they hadn't thought of it themselves.
Re: Despite Attempts to Get Users To Upgrade From XP, 30% Still Use It
#50I'm one of those people unfortunately. XP was all I needed for a decade. My firewall which has thousands of rules does not work with anything newer and other firewalls suck today, very badly. I have many many programs which are licensed and I do not want to have to try to find the key for each one again, heck find the program again, only to find out it doesn't work beyond XP. XP was just a launching UI for me, really…
My guess is that someone will step up and continue to create patches for XP, because you're in a pretty big boat.
But if I were you, I'd switch to a newer OS and run the whole XP box in a VM (note you may run into some MS licensing issues setting this up). Then at least you can slowly start migrating and at least your "main" hypervisor OS will be fully patched. Doesn't help you with the firewall, though.