Windows XP, The Incredible Immortal Operating System!
I love Windows XP. A lot. I’ve been a user since day one, and three of the four computers in my home are still running it beautifully. The fourth is a Mac. So it comes as delightful news to me to hear that Microsoft is again extending downgrade rights to XP, until – get this – the end of Windows 7’s life cycle.
This means, simply put, that Windows XP will be alive and well in 2020.
Initially, Microsoft had planned to axe downgrade rights six months after the release of Windows 7, later extending that plan to 18 months, which would have given users hungry for XP until next year to downgrade. But now? Now you’ll have all the time in the world, should you feel the need (and assuming your copy of Windows 7 is OEM). “Our business customers have told us that the removing end-user downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional could be confusing,” said Brandon LeBlanc on Microsoft’s blog.
He’s not wrong: 74% of business machines are still running XP. And why fix something that isn’t broken, right?
Right?
What blows my mind is that XP was originally supposed to die one year after Vista treated the world to its bad self (the operating word here being ‘bad’). But we all know how that went.
16 User Comments
Mad Max
I have had XP Pro since 2000 (came with my old computer) two years ago upgraded to a laptop (designed for XP) tried Windows Vista (Rubbish). Tried Windows 7 Ultimate, Rubbish!!!
I write small applications in Delphi5 and found that W7 could not read my dll files containing icons, that was just one of the problems, also slow like you wouldn’t believe.
Please Bill Gates, let’s go back to XP, maybe enhance it a bit but cut the lousy graphics, thyey’re not even cool, man.
luv y’all
Mad Max
gmathol
OS aren’t as important as applications which are available for them – period.
XP runs on 512 MB PC just fine – especial if you switch of the XP Style graphic.
VISTA the same get rid of the VISTA annoying graphic interface and zip it runs fast and it should
with 4 GB and 2 core processor power.
Windows 7 runs ok, but wait a minute my old stuff has to run in XP mode?
Hmm, so I came to the following conclusion – Sun/Oracle Virtualbox or Microsoft Virtual PC. Of course Microsoft Virtual PC runs only on Windows OS but I still need OS/2 to run inside. Sun/Oracle Virtualbox supports differn Unix ports, all Windows OS inclusive DOS not so much OS/2 but the 3.2 version let you install the Mac Leopard.
Sun Virtualbox OS installations like Windows, Linux etc. can be exported and can run on all kind of PC’s, Laptops, within in 15-30 Minutes inclusive all the applications.
Try and have fun.
VICB3
Vista is (was) crap. Windows 7 is crap a well. Installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my mom’s machine – high end gaming laptop BTW – to try and speed it up. No real improvement.
Just bought a new netbook for myself. The fact that it was XP cinched the deal. Spoke with a woman about here new netbook about W7. (She had dumped a cup of coffee on here old XP netbook and this was a replacment.) Her verdict: W7 is WAAAAAYYY slower. Made my buy decision easier.
Every one I buttonhole about Windows 7 says the same thing.
Can’t help thining that W7 is just a Vista POS in a new bag. Microsoft ought to have stayed with XP and added useful features eg flash drive treated as RAM.
Can’t wait for the day some smart kid in Russia/China/Thailand/India/Bumfuck cracks the source code and exposes MS for the compromised, backdoor laden POS it really is.
(Can you imagine what a Mozilla operating system might be like, esp. it it was MS/Apple compatible??? Stable, Secure. Let you imagination run wild.)
Just a thought.
VicB3
forget
xp is great, as a rule of thumb, do NOT upgrade yr computer with a newer op system,
in most cases, the newer op sys usually required more resources & power than what
yr computer has. so if u keep them the way they are when u bought the computer,
rarely do u run into problems…my e-machine xp from early 2000 still works fine
for what i need it to do, it’s a production machine (we make things with it) and i love it,
it just works!
Salami bin Throbbin
XP is the only operating system since 3.1 that functions smoothly. If MS wants to slow the out migration to Apple, they need to keep XP alive and healthy.