I'm a Luddite the only keyboard shortcuts I use are cut and paste!
End of Windows XP support spells trouble for some
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I'm a Luddite the only keyboard shortcuts I use are cut and paste!
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I had to use xp the other day, it was painful!
Win7 and Win8.1 are both perfectly usable, those that complain that 8.1 is unusable just want something to whinge about. I spent some time setting up my taskbar and start screen, and nothing is more than a couple of clicks away. Even if it were, win key + search! Just like windows 7...
Win7 and Win8.1 are both perfectly usable, those that complain that 8.1 is unusable just want something to whinge about. I spent some time setting up my taskbar and start screen, and nothing is more than a couple of clicks away. Even if it were, win key + search! Just like windows 7...
Going back to XP, after win 7/8.1 is quite painful, to that point I recently 'upgraded' to win 8.1 and I really like it over win 7.
It really is not as bad as people make out to be, in fact quite the opposite yes the user interface is...different.
It is quite amusing how resistant people are to change..
It really is not as bad as people make out to be, in fact quite the opposite yes the user interface is...different.
It is quite amusing how resistant people are to change..
As for updates/security fixes Microsoft will still be doing them for XP.
Many companies have paid microsoft to continue support.
The British Government for example have paid many millions for support with no end date.
A good percentage >90% of all cash machines are running some flavour of XP.
A very high percentage of POS terminals are XP also.
It is debatable if WU will still function for the masses but the fixes will still be written.
Microsoft will make life difficult for average joe to try and get a sale for W8
but they will still be supporting corporates.
Many companies have paid microsoft to continue support.
The British Government for example have paid many millions for support with no end date.
A good percentage >90% of all cash machines are running some flavour of XP.
A very high percentage of POS terminals are XP also.
It is debatable if WU will still function for the masses but the fixes will still be written.
Microsoft will make life difficult for average joe to try and get a sale for W8
but they will still be supporting corporates.
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Because he is stuck in the year 2000.
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They are all running XP embedded, XP POS v1, or XP POS 2009 though. All built on XP, supported until 2016, 2016 and 2019 respectively.
Exactly this.
With Vista, the main problem was driver availability, or lack thereof. I only had a couple of crashes, all due to my creative sound card having terrible drivers. The other complaints seem to be just down to hardware being sold which was too slow to run it.
As for Windows 8, I upgraded to it at the end of last year, and I honestly don't know what people are complaining about. The meto or modern UI or whatever it's called is actually quite handy. When my PC boots up I just hit the desktop button and I'm on a windows desktop, exactly the same as in Vista. Hit the windows key and I go back to the start page, and there's a heck of a lot more stuff there than there was to see in the start menu. Sure, it takes up the whole screen, but when you're using the start menu, was there ever any real reason to be looking at other stuff? 95% of the time I just hit start and type in the name of the program I want anyway, once again the same as in Vista/7.
Could it have been handled better? Sure. But that doesn't mean that it's nearly as bad as people are making out. Especially when most of those people have never even tried it, or tried it for a couple of minutes before deciding it's literally worse than Hitler.
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Im guessing you havent used xp right from launch day or for a few yrs when everyone was a xp user. XP was a fantastic OS.
WAS being the operative word, we've moved on ow. XP is now horrendously outdated.
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Its really funny actually because when XP launched loads of people hated it, seriously people were like I'm sticking with Windows 98 because this XP is rubbish. It only seemed to be around SP2 time that most people started loving it.
That's how I remember it too. The fisher price look was something that people complained about and that it didn't work with all the old hardware initially.
SP2 was when XP became just right which was nearly 3 years after the original release date.
That's because people hate change
Yes they do but more so change for change sake, eg MS Office.
I wonder just how many XP users used it out of the box compared to people who switched it all to Classic mode straight away ?
I don't recall anything but plain sailing after Win98, I still come over cold at the thought of installing modem drivers on 98 and how it needed the disk just because the weather changed
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