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XP and Leopard obsolete?
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Windows XP is far from obsolete. Everyone in this thread who is saying that XP is obsolete, an operating system that is still widely used can't be considered as obsolete. According to a recent article, Windows 7 is claiming about 44% of the market and XP is still claiming about 39% of the market.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-8-Windows-XP-Market-Share-Windows-98-Zombie,21341.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Windows-8-Windows-XP-Market-Share-Windows-98-Zombie,21341.html
I have Leopard on my 2008 iMac and plan to keep it there--runs fine--reliable--don't really use it for anything where it needs updating. Having said that, I do think it is obsolete if you are using it as your primary computer especially since it is no longer supported by Apple--and some 3rd party apps no longer support it as well. But as a secondary system, it is fine--at least for me.
I have Leopard on my 2007 Mini, and it still does everything I require of it, which isn't too much. The thing that made me jump from a G3 using 9.2.2 was that stuff wasn't working online. So far, I haven't experienced that with my current setup.
We still use XP at work. And there are some systems on the manufacturing floor still running Windows 95 (and will for the foreseeable future). I've got a Windows 2000 virtual machine to support some application software written back at that time using an IDE that might not port to a later OS. Since the software isn't obsolete, Windows 2000 isn't obsolete, at least for me.
Apple forces obsolescence much quicker by tying their hardware to OS versions.
Apple forces obsolescence much quicker by tying their hardware to OS versions.
You guys feel that Leopard and XP are obsolete?
Cor blimey! I'm still using XP and Tiger on a regular basis.
Cor blimey! I'm still using XP and Tiger on a regular basis.
That was also the case for a company I worked at in the past until they became major liability.
We had a virus/trojan/attack that replicated through them. Even though we reimaged them to a known good state and locked them down as much as we could, just having them on the network (so that they could load data into a manufacturing database) became a liability. The one machine that we could not upgrade (due to third party software that was not easily replaceable) ended up having the NIC yanked and was never connected to the network again.
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It's not quite obsolete yet, it will be next year regardless of how many people run it. The first zero day bug and those users will be screwed. If it's just their own personal data its their right to run the risk. But given that more companies seem content to stay on XP it won't be their own data at risk.
You guys feel that Leopard and XP are obsolete?
This. Both of my main PC's run XP, and my main macs run Tiger. I keep a Leopard partition on an external drive, and I'm saving up to get a copy of Windows 7 on my netbook, but I have no "need" for either of these newer OS's, my "obsolete" versions do everything I need, so I see no reason to hurry and buy the latest and greatest.
Buying a PowerPC saved me ~$200 and it does everything I need. It works for plenty of other people as well.
A lot of people can still get by without the latest versions of applications. Some people (Not many, but still
) even use MacOS 9 as their main OS and it works fine for them.Agreed. At least my XP Bootcamp partition gets regular updates and can easily do things like watch Flash video, unlike my Leopard partition. Apple's update schedule and lack of long term support is going to push a lot of users either out the door or to upgrade. I'm going to go with the former most likely.
Not $20-50 cheap though.
They're $50 for a reason. They fun toys but not exactly good for main machines, even if they did get updates the hardware sucks by modern standards. I have a classic iMac and it's beautiful but I'd never in a million years attempt to use it as my main computer.