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The death of XP has been GREATLY exaggerated!

Posted by CodeBubba on June 21, 2009 – 7:44 pm
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Looks like Microsoft has caved a bit and extended the life of XP one more time.  According to this article in Computerworld, Microsoft has extended distribution of the aging O/S well into 2011 – past the point where Windows 7 will be released.

I’m a Vista user now myself but saying I upgraded it out of need is a stretch.  Vista is fine (and Windows 7 shows promise) but MS had no idea how deeply entrenched XP was going to become.

The O/S upgrade cycle will go on – but those of you still happily running XP don’t rush out to buy either of the new O/S offerings until you’re darn good and ready.  A more compatible and solid piece of software has never been written and just ain’t going to die any time soon.

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  • CodeBubba
    Agreed; XP took a little while to be adopted. Still ... I don't remember any previous version of Windows settling down to the point that XP has. I'm using both Vista and playing with Windows7. They're both fine - but to sit here and tell you that upgrading to them absolutely revolutionizes anything would be a lie. Adoption of Vista and even W7 is going to be harder than it was for XP because of the stability and functionality XP now has. Will it happen? Yeah. It just won't be as quick.
  • XP took a little while to be adopted. Still ... I don't remember any previous version of Windows settling down to the point that XP has.

    Well, 95 to 98 was say 3 years; 98 to ME was say 2 years; ME to XP was maybe one year; XP to Vista was 5-6 years. So it's not surprising XP has settled down more.

    I suspect a similar argument can be made for NT/2000/XP Pro.

    I don't think that means XP was "better" than those other versions; it just had more time to get the bugs out. :D

    Steve
  • When it came out, XP was nearly as universally hated as Vista is, unjustly or no. I wonder how much of that hatred, and the Vista-hatred now, was really about the software, about disliking Microsoft, or about fitting in with the cool kids on the web?

    Beyond that, it seems we always prefer the devil we know and at this point, most of us know XP pretty damn well.
  • A more compatible and solid piece of software has never been written[....]

    Well, except for the numerous security holes. :D

    And, if I recall correctly, when XP first came out, quite a bit of software had compatibility issues with it. Sure, everything is compatible with it now, but people have had 8 years or so to get things right....

    Steve
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