No More Windows XP?

[doggie015]

What is wrong with windows XP? it has no compadibility issues, it is high on the 'ease-of-use' scale, it looks good and is light on reasources. Not only that, but it is just plain RELIABLE, the bugs with SP3 will be sorted out and it will become as close to perfect as M$ ever got (Which is fairly far away) I am going to run Ubuntu as my main OS and XP in a Virtual PC if I ever need to use it for games and Orbiter

 

[jedidia]

My only real question is what will happen when Microsoft decides to stop activating Windows XP. Will it be impossible to make new installations? Will they reveal a back door?

Hey, they stoped selling 2k over 4 years ago, and I'm STILL using it (can't be bothered to invest money into a new OS when my old one still runs perfectly...)

When they stop selling it it means they stop patching it, but it also means dumbasses will stop attacking it and will move on to the new OS, so an OS that has it's last updates is mostly stable. I still own the copy of 2k I got back then, I can still activate it and I still can download all patches. And even if you can't, some people will still have the patches up for download.

two years ago in Bosnia I had to do a complete reinstall (The new board I bought didn't seem to like the old format of my Disk), and I upgraded it again to SP4 without the machine even being on the net. I had no private connection, So I looked for complete-install packages to throw on stick and take hme with me, and I found them all. No problem really.

So I guess you'll be able to use your XP as long as the old machines are still running...

 

[reverend]

I voluntarily installed vista on 3 computers in November 2006. It's still running on all 3. Never had to wipe, repair or restore. Obviously if everything didn't work great I wouldn't be running it at all. Yes it uses a little more RAM, but RAM is cheap. Upgrade to 2 Gigs or 4 Gigs and it'll cruise right along. Orbiter runs great. Since all my PC's are Vista, I only run Orbiter on Vista. There's nothing different about the release of Vista than any other previous Windows release. 50% of the population is always skeptical, 25% Dive right in (like myself) and 25% vow to use the current version forever.

I find no drawbacks to Vista. It's sweet.

 

[tl8]

I voluntarily installed vista on 3 computers in November 2006. It's still running on all 3. Never had to wipe, repair or restore. Obviously if everything didn't work great I wouldn't be running it at all. Yes it uses a little more RAM, but RAM is cheap. Upgrade to 2 Gigs or 4 Gigs and it'll cruise right along. Orbiter runs great. Since all my PC's are Vista, I only run Orbiter on Vista. There's nothing different about the release of Vista than any other previous Windows release. 50% of the population is always skeptical, 25% Dive right in (like myself) and 25% vow to use the current version forever.

I find no drawbacks to Vista. It's sweet.

Change that 3 to 1, and that's me.
I do notice a drop in possible FPS in Orbiter, but that will change once a DX9 graphics system is released

 

[Thunder Chicken]

To me, they are pushing me so I want to move to another OS.
Linux is the future.

Ditto. I have XP (and am reasonably pleased with it) and have no plans to get Vista, after the debacle of trying to run it on *brand new* Dell quad cores at work (we rolled back to XP).

If the next iteration of Windows is another bloated useless pig, my next machine will be running Linux.

 

[Urwumpe]

I already had objections moving away from my loved Windows 2000 to XP, but finally, XP turned out to work stable enough. It caused CTDs for sometime because I had damaged memory modules and XP was more touchy for these problems (2000 ran perfectly on the same memory, I have never found out why).

My ideal successor windows would be somewhere between XP and Windows 2000 actually. There is a lot of stuff I don't need in XP and the functions of Windows 2000 had been great for me. And finally, most of the professional stuff I learned for operating Windows NT 4.0, worked well for Windows 2000 and after a short reorientation, also for Windows XP.

Vista on the other hand, is a pain in the ass, from what I notice when looking how friends do with it.

Linux on the other hand is for me a nice toy. I like running an installation once per month and sometimes test software for linux, but since the invention of Linux live distributions like Knoppix or Knoppizilin, I don't even need to have a full linux install here for such stuff.

For workstation stuff, I am also close to testing OpenSolaris.

When I move together with my girlfriend, I will assemble a small passive cooled ITX cube for running the network stuff on Linux, as I have to leave all my network infrastructure here.

 

[Messierhunter]

I bought a cheap laptop for my wife a while ago and because I got a bottom-of-the-barrel machine, the OS was vista basic. Even basic caused the machine to grind to a halt, and it didn't even have the flashy graphics of the other versions - it just looked and acted like a reskinned XP that ran half as fast. Fed up with it, the machine sat in the closet collecting dust for a few months until I finally dusted it off and gave Ubuntu Linux a whirl. My wife only uses it for web browsing, emailing, and word processing anyway so I figured it might make the machine work at a tolerable pace. All I have to say is WOW - it starts up and runs faster than my XP either of my machines (which are admittedly bloated with antivirus and firewall software).

 

[Thunder Chicken]

One of the few stumbling blocks for me that prevents me from migrating to Linux is, um, Orbiter. Does anybody know if it will run under Wine?

 

[Lunchbox]

I finally made the switch to Vista a few weeks ago...or was it one month? Anyway, everything seems to be going...well. I'm actually a bit nervous because of that fact. Nothing has gone wrong, except Orbiter and Vista hate each other like brothers, but one of my copies of Orbiter still works well. Speaking of space and Vista, does anyone know any good "space" widgets for the sidebar?