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What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 04 Jan 2012, 08:20
by Ron2K
Slashdot wrote:PC World reports that Windows XP lost more than 11 percent of its share from September to December 2011, to post a December average of 46.5 percent, a new low for the aged OS as
users have gotten Microsoft's message that the operating system should be retired. Figures indicate that Windows 7 will become the most widely used version in April, several months earlier than previous estimates. Two months ago, as Microsoft quietly
celebrated the 10th anniversary of XP's retail launch, the company touted the motto 'Standing still is falling behind' to promote Windows 7 and demote XP. In July,
Microsoft told customers it was 'time to move on' from XP, reminding everyone that the OS would exit all support in April 2014. Before that, the Internet Explorer team had dismissed XP as the 'lowest common denominator' when they explained why it wouldn't run IE9. The deadline for ditching Windows XP is in April 2014, when Microsoft stops patching the operating system. 'Enterprises
don't want to run an OS when there's no security fixes,' says Michael Silver, an analyst with Gartner Research rejecting the idea that Microsoft would extend the end-of-life date for Windows XP to please the 10% who have no plans to leave the OS. 'The longer they let them run XP, the more enterprises will slow down their migration.'
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Those of you still on XP -- why are you still running it? Not criticising, just curious.
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 04 Jan 2012, 08:27
by Tribble
It would require purchasing a Win 7 x2, backing up all my data, formatting my machines......... lots of work. Yes I know I can just upgrade but I have been wanting to reformat my machines for a long time. I have too much junk on them (as you know).
It is becoming more important that I do this as I need to train Adv Win 7 courses and it would be useful if I knew it intimately. We do have other machines running 7 but they aren't exclusively mine - so I cannot mess with the settings.
So - you can chalk my tardiness to laziness.
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 04 Jan 2012, 08:29
by KALSTER
I still run it on my office PC, mostly due to hardware limitations, but also because it still works. No need to pay to upgrade when my productivity will stay the same.
I have come across many people that don't understand the hardware requirements of Win 7 or Vista, install it on their single core Sempron with 512MB RAM and then complain when they see poor performance.
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 04 Jan 2012, 10:19
by THE_STIG
Well I use it on the various other PC's around the house because it is lighter on resources than win7, and win XP does a better job when running old apps. But XP still does everything you need, everybody is familiar with it and you can install it an endless amount of times(but maybe that is just me)........so for those still using XP for office stuff or internet there is no reason why you should spend money on Windows 7.
But for gaming then I dont see why you would keep XP, unless your PC is rather old.
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 05 Jan 2012, 14:58
by doo_much
It works.
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 05 Jan 2012, 16:19
by Hman
We use it on the slow as molasses work pcs. Because they're slow and the people using them are even slower.
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 05 Jan 2012, 19:28
by Monty
Varsity only uses XP :'(
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 06 Jan 2012, 02:52
by hamin_aus
doo_much wrote:It works.
So do Model T Ford's - does that mean you drive one
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 06 Jan 2012, 06:44
by doo_much
jamin_za wrote:doo_much wrote:It works.
So do Model T Ford's - does that mean you drive one
They don't always work - especially on freeways - but if I could afford one in pristine condition, I probably would drive it whenever the opportunity presented itself.
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 06 Jan 2012, 07:30
by RuadRauFlessa
Will you be interested in a black one or will you go for another colour it was originally manufactured in?
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 06 Jan 2012, 07:35
by hamin_aus
Yeah because people could get the Model-T Ford in whatever colour they wanted - as long as it was black
//Played Civ4 so long I have a long list of quotes memorised
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 06 Jan 2012, 11:02
by PhR34KKK
My damn company is to cheap to upgrade my 5 year old Laptop, and I develop on the damn thing !!
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 06 Jan 2012, 19:51
by Nuke
Still using XP (64bit though) on my laptop. And I'm not planning to change that. Its fast and stable, never had a day of trouble with it.
Using Win7 64bit on my PC for the past year. Still no more impressed than I was the first time I saw it. Its slow, buggy and crashes often(I was used to uptimes of 80+ days on XP, now if I go 15 days its a wonder). The only reasons I use it is to drive my 3d screen and because people told me I can't say 7 is crap if I have not used it.
If they brought 3Dvision support to XP, I would go back in less than a day.
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 06 Jan 2012, 21:51
by hamin_aus
...not sure if trolling...
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 06 Jan 2012, 23:26
by Nuke
Sorry mate, not trollin'...
If Windows 8 is as as much of an improvement as 7 was on Vista, it may be as usable as XP64.
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 08 Jan 2012, 17:11
by StarBound
I've abandoned Windows XP after a month of using Windows 7 but only because my hardware was allowing it to be a much better experience. Better usage of my cpu, 64-bit removing the 4gb limit, DX11, basicly for gaming advantage.
If some developers didn't start using DX11 I could see never moving away from XP. After all consoles are stuck on DX9 like operations. No need to upgrade the poor pc if you feel like comparing.
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 08 Jan 2012, 17:18
by D3PART3D
Nuke wrote:Still using XP (64bit though) on my laptop. And I'm not planning to change that. Its fast and stable, never had a day of trouble with it.
Using Win7 64bit on my PC for the past year. Still no more impressed than I was the first time I saw it. Its slow, buggy and crashes often(I was used to uptimes of 80+ days on XP, now if I go 15 days its a wonder).
Anecdotal evidence FTW.
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 11 Jan 2012, 12:34
by doo_much
jamin_za wrote:Yeah because people could get the Model-T Ford in whatever colour they wanted - as long as it was black
//Played Civ4 so long I have a long list of quotes memorised
TOTALLY OFF TOPIC, but...
Isn't it amazing though how - when you start delving into the roots of those quotes - how many are total misquotes or attributed to the wrong person?
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 12 Jan 2012, 14:03
by PhR34KKK
because you need XP to level up !!
What a n00b
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 12 Jan 2012, 14:41
by ADT
PhR34KKK wrote:because you need XP to level up !!
What a n00b
Hahaha
WIN 
Re: What's keeping you on XP?
Posted: 30 Jan 2012, 11:50
by xDODGERx
I am planning on making a XP partition just for my really old games using those ancient installers.
For me the whole look of OS has become quite important. That has always been a problem for me in XP and downloading windows 7 or Vista themes is not really worth the trouble. Windows 7 and OSX look great
