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XP needed to go, we cannot be relying on an ancient OS in 2030.

I remember the same type of posts when they stopped selling 98.
This makes me wonder...why are people so resistant to change?

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By the time Windows 7 arrives...XP would be where Windows 98 is today. And Vista would be where XP is today. And Windows 7 will be where Vista is today

In the gutter? I hope not.  :p 

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Rassurez vous il n'arrêtera pas de fonctionner en 2014.
Didier MVP

==> don't be afraid, it won't be stopped in 2014

Its not a matter of resistance to change...its a matter of why fix it if it ain't broken. They finally get all the patches and fixes done and then put out another one to fix and patch? Its a matter of greed!

With Vista all I needed was a good AV,it must have come with the 'right' software already.


Tube type amps sound better than solid state,LP's have better sound dynamics than a CD.Beta was superior to VHS.They got replaced.(yes,I'm that old) :LOL:
Something will replace XP.We're expected to "forget" the way things were.
As for me, I'd just like the future to be easier,faster,safer and cheaper.What OS I go there with isn't that important.

I still have a beta player and believe it or not, it still works. I keep it around for the grand kids to use.

Ok, what's a beta player? :LOL:

While this may or may not be true, Vista does suck in many ways. The only thing I like about Vista is that it is pretty. And we all know we can make XP just as pretty as Vista! Vista reminds me of when MS released ME, It just wasn't ready. Vista is not ready for the public. My biggest peeve with Vista is that you are never really an admin. There are some things on a Vista PC that you just cannot access, no matter what. I have had some training in the computer field and only lack my A++ exam. I should be able to access ANYTHING on my computer! After all, it is mine.

Where Vista belongs. lol

What I don't get is support stopping in 2014-- that would be (literally) like just now stopping support for Windows95.

Yeah...about ME...I got this from Microsoft's website:



Microsoft's page on Windows XP's future.

Okay, from the for what it's worth department, just received my August 2008 issue of Windows XP: The Official Magazine. On page 9 is a short artical under News In Brief:

EXTENDED WINDOWS

Microsoft has again extended the life of Windows XP by allowing it to be supplied on budget desktop PCs. The operating system was due to be axed on 30 June 2008 but was reprived to stop rival operating systems moving into budget markets where PCs are too slow to run Windows Vista. This move comes a month after Microsoft allowed Windows XP to be included on ultra-mobile laptops until 2010.

The publisher (Future Publications Limited) is apparently the only one licensed to put out an official magazine for Windows. I haven't gone to the Microsoft site to try and verify the info.

I guess you take this and put it with the recent Windows 7 news releases and start trying to figure out what just is Microsoft up to.   

EDIT: Maybe I was a little slow here with this reply and maybe the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing at Microsoft.  :SURPRISED: 

Good grief! How cheap would that be? $49.95? I only paid $299+tax for this new HP w/o monitor with an AMD64,120Gb HDD and DVD with Lightscribe.Oh yeah,and Vista Home Basic.
Buy the software,get the PC free! :LOL:

XP is still good for developers, OS modders (like good 'ol Mr. Windows X), and older computers.

Now that computers have gotten faster (and more complex for that matter), we need something new. I have moved on to Vista pretty well. (My only problem is my scanner, but it's to be expected since its from sometime around 1999-2001.) XP is good, and it will remain so for a few more years.

I would like to point out that I did a quite search of Microsoft pages and could not find anything confirming the artical that was published in the magazine identifed in reply #15.

But then it was a subscriber issue for August and it's only July. I wonder if anyone really knows what is going on at Microsoft.  :SURPRISED: 

My favorite part of the page :LOL:

WWW Link

HD-DVD is todays BetaMax.

I was reluctant moving to Vista at first, unlike when I had ME and leaped to XP. Now after having Vista for a while , I am overall happy with it. Sure somethings work better/faster in XP at the moment, but that will change in time.

Dell has quietly continued to offer XPP even after their announced June 18th deadline. Just saw a promo today & you can get both flavors of Vista Business with XPP installed for dual boot. It's also still in the pipeline to independent resellers, & the tech support company that services our business network expects it to be available for some time to take care of the needs of businesses with multiple XP workstations & XP-only mission-critical business apps (which often take many months to years to become "next-OS ready" - apparently especially so with Vista).

HD-DVD is'nt quite dead yet,if @ first you don't succeed.try,try again..lol..

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That's probably because Dell has a stockpile of XP OEM's... and then probably only in the US. Dell Australia is now only advertising/selling Vista machines, and a customer service representative at Microsoft Australia told me that, as of June 18, XP will no longer be made available to PC manufacturers and/or suppliers, period.

Thing is, though, all the earlier incarnations of Windows were eventually withdrawn from sale when a newer version was released (even though support for them continued), so the withdrawal of XP is no different and should have been expected sometime soon after the release of Vista.... moreso after SP1 gave it better stability/reliability, etc.

OK, it's a transition period some aren't liking, but it's inevitable and they need to move on. Everything gets superseded eventually - like you can't go into Ford and order a T Model anymore - so it's either get with the times or get left behind...

I mean, it's not like ya see a lot of T Models on the freeway keeping up with modern day cars, now do ya.

I've been running Vista Ultimate since the first public beta and have had very few problems - in fact, considerably fewer problems than when I upgraded from 98SE to XP - so I'm not complaining that Vista is now MS' new flagship OS. I still run XP in a dual boot configuration, and I will continue to do so because I happen to like XP as well, but for the most part I'm booted into Vista these days cos I find it faster than XP in most instances.

Windows XP made have needed to go, but Vista sure as hell isn't a suitable replacement (from a gamer's point of view).