Using Windows XP? Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 Support Ends April 8, 2014

I personally cannot wait till they drag XP out into the street and do something they should have done at least 3 years ago, shoot it in the head.

Cannot wait for the first support call that comes in relating to some issue with a XP machine and telling the client sorry we can't support that any more and that they will have to upgrade to 7 or 8 if they want support for that machine :D
 
grim said:
I personally cannot wait till they drag XP out into the street and do something they should have done at least 3 years ago, shoot it in the head.

Cannot wait for the first support call that comes in relating to some issue with a XP machine and telling the client sorry we can't support that any more and that they will have to upgrade to 7 or 8 if they want support for that machine :D
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I wouldn't hold my breath then :)
 
grim said:
I personally cannot wait till they drag XP out into the street and do something they should have done at least 3 years ago, shoot it in the head.

Cannot wait for the first support call that comes in relating to some issue with a XP machine and telling the client sorry we can't support that any more and that they will have to upgrade to 7 or 8 if they want support for that machine :D
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Yeah. Imagine the client dumping your cr=ppy company and going to a competitor. Enjoy not getting paid.
 
Space_Chief said:
Yeah. Imagine the client dumping your cr=ppy company and going to a competitor. Enjoy not getting paid.
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We don't do desktop support in general, we've been trying to get rid of the last company where we do desktop support for a while now.
 
This is nothing new........MS-DOS, Win1 Win3 Win95 WinNT4 Win98 WinMe Win2k
all EOL it's the way of tech moving forward.

XP is sickening with the blue taskbar and dablo toy GUI, will dance on it's grave when MS bury it.
 
Drake2007 said:
This is nothing new........MS-DOS, Win1 Win3 Win95 WinNT4 Win98 WinMe Win2k
all EOL it's the way of tech moving forward.

XP is sickening with the blue taskbar and dablo toy GUI, will dance on it's grave when MS bury it.
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Forward, or sideways?

If the only fault you can find with XP is the colour of the taskbar and it's GUI, I predict it will still be here 10 years from now :)
 
chrisdc said:
Forward, or sideways?

If the only fault you can find with XP is the colour of the taskbar and it's GUI, I predict it will still be here 10 years from now :)
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ah, no how about the infamous WinSxS folder? It shows that at the root of it the OS is one huge workaround after another.
 
Drake2007 said:
ah, no how about the infamous WinSxS folder? It shows that at the root of it the OS is one huge workaround after another.
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Will have to take your word for that. Thing is, it's a workhorse for us and a reliable one. We're running accounting packages, drawing programs and the like and it manages that so well. There's a sizable investment in software and time, learning how to use it properly. Some of this stuff may not migrate too well to a modern 64bit platform. Why mess with it?
 
Drake2007 said:
This is nothing new........MS-DOS, Win1 Win3 Win95 WinNT4 Win98 WinMe Win2k
all EOL it's the way of tech moving forward.

XP is sickening with the blue taskbar and dablo toy GUI, will dance on it's grave when MS bury it.
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Win 1 with MS DOS Executive? Was that ever deployed in large numbers or was it just a glorified demo?

Real men run XP in Classic Shell mode, so it looks like Win95 (almost).
 
grim said:
I personally cannot wait till they drag XP out into the street and do something they should have done at least 3 years ago, shoot it in the head.

Cannot wait for the first support call that comes in relating to some issue with a XP machine and telling the client sorry we can't support that any more and that they will have to upgrade to 7 or 8 if they want support for that machine :D
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Pray you never meet the impalement spikes on the front end of my Landrover defender
 
Space_Chief said:
Win 1 with MS DOS Executive? Was that ever deployed in large numbers or was it just a glorified demo?

Real men run XP in Classic Shell mode, so it looks like Win95 (almost).
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LOL, oh I like that! Must give it a go. I still have an original Win95 CD and of course a 98SE CD as well. Must keep those, they're going to be worth a fortune one day :)
 
chrisdc said:
LOL, oh I like that! Must give it a go. I still have an original Win95 CD and of course a 98SE CD as well. Must keep those, they're going to be worth a fortune one day :)
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Win 95, like Win 3.1 originally came on floppy (stiffy) disks.
 
XP still does a perfect job for business applications. You don't just move away from the tried and tested.

Duan said:
Most apps should be compatible by this time right? Software publishers have had ages to move things along!
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That's what you'd think with PAE yet after 9 years and 3 years after XP MS decides that it should no longer support it. Not because of the isolated app that's incompatible but because it's assumed it's widely incompatible. The truth of the matter is that MS's own HAL didn't properly support it even after 8 years of development and 13 years of having the chance to implement proper programming practice.

MS makes every decision for business purposes and not for the end user.
 
Space_Chief said:
Win 95, like Win 3.1 originally came on floppy (stiffy) disks.
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Correct, quite a big pile of them!

However it was available later on CD. I'm holding the CD in my hand. Something I've never noticed before is the "With USB support" printed on the CD under the Win95 logo. It's part of a 2 CD set.

I was under the impression USB support only appeared with the second edition of Win98. We bought an expensive laptop preinstalled with 98SE at the turn of the century and USB was still a bit of a novelty, even then! Well, at least here in S.A....
 
chrisdc said:


Correct, quite a big pile of them!
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Yup them Stiffies. MS Setup would mark them - at least in the case of Win 3.1 and Word for Windows 2. They'd mark it with name and company name. Pro tip was to write protect the disk, which meant sliding the tab or putting some tape on the hole.

However it was available later on CD. I'm holding the CD in my hand. Something I've never noticed before is the "With USB support" printed on the CD under the Win95 logo. It's part of a 2 CD set.

I was under the impression USB support only appeared with the second edition of Win98. We bought an expensive laptop preinstalled with 98SE at the turn of the century and USB was still a bit of a novelty, even then! Well, at least here in S.A....
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Yeah I thought so too. Apparently it was "limited support" in later versions of Win 95 which explains your CD-ROM. The earlier versions all came of 1.44 MB or 1.2 MB floppy disks.

http://www.usbman.com/Win95 USB Guide.htm
 
chrisdc said:
Agreed. Even if you do connect to the internet, isn't this where a good antivirus suite comes into it's own?
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Good Antivirus cannot patch holes in the OS. We are sitting with With a 1000 machines running XP and Server 2003, the problem is the main application running on them does not support the newer versions of Windows and the developers are dragging ass.

Most of them cannot access the internet but there is a few Web servers running 2003 and if one get infected they will all get infected.
 
In the bad old IRC days - win95 had a nice vulnerability towards DOS attack that crashed the PC. Could take any **** off the internet who was running it. Win98 there's a limit to CPU speed, anything higher (I forget what MHz) would just crash. And by then those CPU speeds meant you should have been running XP. So yeah.. Hardware is a huge determining factor. I'd hate to try use
MS-DOS and Win3.1 nowdays.. nightmare just to get the mouse to work.

so I guess my point is- Tech moves forward. XP must die
 
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Drake2007 said:
This is nothing new........MS-DOS, Win1 Win3 Win95 WinNT4 Win98 WinMe Win2k
all EOL it's the way of tech moving forward.

XP is sickening with the blue taskbar and dablo toy GUI, will dance on it's grave when MS bury it.
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I'm not in IT, but won't be surprised if some companies still use IE6.
 
I still have a copy of my Win 3.1 on CD and a Win 95 CD :)
I have 2 laptops, one with XP (for the hardware that we use that is not supported by Win 7 yet) and one with Win 7. I don't like Win 8.
 
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