Microsoft to Windows XP: Please Die, Already

[vitzr]

I know windows XP is really bad for security and should never be hooked up to the internet

These comments sound like they're straight out of the "Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field".

 

[toolbox]

I still prefer xp, especially in windows server / domain environments. Administering vista / 7 machines can be painful however xp is just so much nicer and easier to maintain.

Some of the settings that the newer server operating systems offer, xp can't take advantage of.

However i am slowly making the move to get my customers over to 7 as they need it.

But my opinion it is one of the best operating systems i have ever used.

 

[wordoflife]

XP is still great. It's not that easy for business to move away from it, for some reason. My local hospital uses XP, my local library uses XP, etc.

My dad used XP for his work too, but unfortunately 1GB of RAM + Pentium 4 processor wasn't cutting it. I don't think he likes W7 still. It's not bad, but I don't know, there's just a lot of app compatibility issues. Nothing major, but still problematic.

 

[SPNarwhal]

I like XP way better than 7, not even because of compatibility issues, unless you want to count me and incompatible with Windows 7.

It seems way more confusing, it's almost as if they tried so hard to be convenient and feature-full that they made it more complicated. I can't even change the wallpaper right, for some reason it turns into a slideshow of their pre-set wallpapers, and setting different wallpapers on a 2ndary external display was even more difficult. And trust me, I'm not one of those people who don't understand stuff, Windows 7 is just weird.

I don't want a Windows that is trying to be like OSX, I want Windows that is like Windows if I want to use Windows.

Also their little auto sizing windows thing, that snaps to the corners of your screen and becomes all vertical randomly. Don't even get me started.

 

[Demosthenes X]

I do not understand why would companies still be using windows XP ? You would think they would want to be malware free.

Why not use windows vista or windows 7 ? They have much better secuity to stop malware . Has it only now Microsoft is starting to copy OS X and Unix with UAC and sandboxing .

You would think secuity would be number one on the priority.

Upgrading to Windows 7 is an expensive and time-consuming process. My workplace has been doing a complete upgrade for the last 18 months, and they still haven't completely rolled out the new computers. We're a relatively small company, but two years and $50,000 is a lot of money just to upgrade to a new OS. If MS hadn't announced they won't be supporting XP anymore, I doubt we would have bothered.

 

[maflynn]

If MS hadn't announced they won't be supporting XP anymore, I doubt we would have bothered.

That goes for any and all enterprise applications. We recently upgraded PeopleSoft at my organization because Oracle stated that they won't support it.

 

[Daffodil]

We also have xp at work, and have been promised an update for ever, but it's slow in the coming... Really, I'm just incredibly happy that we're forgoing vista to go straight to win 7. Vista sucks...

 

[toolbox]

Upgrading to Windows 7 is an expensive and time-consuming process. My workplace has been doing a complete upgrade for the last 18 months, and they still haven't completely rolled out the new computers. We're a relatively small company, but two years and $50,000 is a lot of money just to upgrade to a new OS. If MS hadn't announced they won't be supporting XP anymore, I doubt we would have bothered.

Very True! it is very time consuming and expensive. I still have a toyota dealership that is on xp still due to there specific software / websites they view Ie 7 /8 /9 cause failures in the page / other aspects. So a select few are still on 6

 

[thekev]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/242575/microsoft_to_windows_xp_please_die_already.html


Looking at that web site and reading the replies it looks like alot of people like windows XP way better than windows vista and windows 7 ??

Windows 7 runs fine for the most part. It just has a lot of idiotic quirks with complex workarounds. OSX has the same issue there, but they're totally different quirks. Just to detail a little here on idiotic quirks, I mean things that affect a smaller number of users. Wacom tablets for example activate wisptis.exe and you get these stupid cursor animations. There isn't a proper setting to simply switch this off without killing the process each time(I replaced it with a blank text file with the same name). It doesn't do an amazing job with managing ram. Aero can bog down lighter laptop graphics hardware.

In OSX the file directories have had many issues. It seems like it's been better since Snow Leopard, but the directory system overall has a lot of issues. The bug where spotlight would crash applications when saving to an external drive lasted all through Tiger (I think a bit into Leopard too).

The point here is they both have issues. You learn to work around them.

why hasn't Microsoft done it like Apple ,
instead of introducing service pack 1 , 2, 3 they could have made it easy stop support for xp apart from a 1 year with security updates and such and make it impossible to install on newer hardware then a pentium 4 , make it perfectly understandable to software developers that its totally out-of-date, so no more newer programs after 2003 available, same with vista after windows7 and for windows7 after windows8

They tried to phase it out during the time of Vista. Their customer base revolted to a degree. Vista really hurt that company.

4. Finally-must IT people don't want the hassle of replacing dozens (or hundreds) of PCs that already work just fine in their environment

They have to make a choice on when to upgrade. Running the newest thing means very little. If newer hardware or a more recent OS won't contribute much to long term productivity, it's easy for them to keep using what they used before. Some lighter software has really hit a wall in terms of benefit gained from updates unless you're working with exceptionally large files. That's also contributed to the trend toward smaller mainstream hardware (ie idevices).

 

[AnimaLeo]

I use both OSX and Windows XP, I love both OS's.

 

[0098386]

If it was easy I'd triple-boot between XP, Win 7 and OSX on my iMac. There's so much compatibility with XP and I find it a much faster OS with the best "raw" searching of any currently used OS.

I only bought Win 7 because I had just bought a brand new iMac and wanted to upgrade all aspects of my computer life. Also DirectX 11.

 

[vitzr]

That goes for any and all enterprise applications. We recently upgraded PeopleSoft at my organization because Oracle stated that they won't support it.

Well said.

Many users operate off assumptions will little true knowledge of the complexity and many variables present in large scale enterprise operations.

 

[Sydde]

My G5 runs 10.5 on its internal drive, but I can easily boot 10.4 on my external HD if I need to. I think that sort of thing is not very practical, if even possible, between 7 and XP.