After Monday, say goodbye to Windows XP

[terry78]

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/96295

Gates is forcing Vista upon us all.

 

[Scarlet spidey]

Gates is? That's weird. I'd think maybe Balmer would be the one doing that.

 

[Manic]

Yeah, Gates doesn't even run Microsoft anymore. He just has stock.

I guess the June 30th cutoff date would explain why my store just got a huge shipment of Windows XP in. We have to get ready for the onslaught of returning customers with new computers who want to retrograde their Vista operating systems.

Anyway, here's hoping Windows Vista turns into a huge flop, Microsoft kicks themselves, and it gets pulled off the shelf like ME.

 

[Nirvana]

Ugh, I really hate Vista, too. It deletes stuff off my computer all the time. WTF??

 

[Manic]

Working in the Software Department at my store, I've heard quite a few complaints from people who upgraded from XP to Vista.

"My printer stopped working."
"My scanner stopped working."
"I couldn't find my DVD drive."
"My games don't work anymore."

 

[Prison Mike]

Goodbye XP, I shall miss you.

 

[jaguarr]

Ahhhhh, poor Windows Sufferers.

jag

 

[terry78]

Working in the Software Department at my store, I've heard quite a few complaints from people who upgraded from XP to Vista.

"My printer stopped working."
"My scanner stopped working."
"I couldn't find my DVD drive."
"My games don't work anymore."

****, I know people still running 98, and claim it's as reliable as ever.

 

[Immortalfire]

I have Vista already.

 

[StrainedEyes]

I should update to Leopard soon.

 

[jaguarr]

I should update to Leopard soon.

jag

 

[CBGB]

Ahhhhh, poor Windows Sufferers.

jag

Leopard FTW!

 

[huskerwebhead]

I've had Vista for months now and it works great. Trying to put it on older systems is where you run into issues. On brand new boxes it works fine.

 

[Leto Atrides]

They're not really forcing it on anybody, you just can't buy new copies from them anymore. I was worried they weren't supporting it anymore or something. I have a feeling this is going to be like 98 and ME, plenty of people are going to be using XP until the next version of Windows comes out.

 

[jaguarr]

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/et-tu-intel/index.html

June 25, 2008, 5:08 pm
Et Tu, Intel? Chip Giant Won’t Embrace Microsoft’s Windows Vista

By Steve Lohr

Intel, the giant chip maker and longtime partner of Microsoft, has decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft’s Vista operating system, a person with direct knowledge of the company’s plans said.

The person, who has been briefed on the situation but requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of Intel’s relationship with Microsoft, said the company made its decision after a lengthy analysis by its internal technology staff of the costs and potential benefits of moving to Windows Vista, which has drawn fire from many customers as a buggy, bloated program that requires costly hardware upgrades to run smoothly.

“This isn’t a matter of dissing Microsoft, but Intel information technology staff just found no compelling case for adopting Vista,” the person said.

An Intel spokesman said the company was testing and deploying Vista in certain departments, but not across the company.

Intel’s decision is certain to sting Microsoft because the two companies have worked closely to align hardware and software from the earliest days of the personal computer. Indeed, the corporate duo is known as “Wintel” in the PC industry.

Could Intel change its mind? Quite possibly. Microsoft’s chief executive, Steven Ballmer, has few equals as a forceful, persuasive salesman, and he and Paul Otellini, Intel’s chief executive, meet regularly.

Word of Intel’s lukewarm response to Vista appeared Monday in The Inquirer, an irreverent London-based technology Web site.

Intel is hardly alone in its reluctance to embrace Microsoft’s latest operating system, which was available to corporate customers in November 2006 and to consumers in January 2007. Large companies routinely hold off a year or so after a new version of Windows is introduced before adopting it, waiting for initial bugs to be eliminated and for applications to be written. “But by 18 months, you’d expect to see a significant uptake, and we haven’t seen that,” said David Smith, a Gartner analyst. “There’s not much excitement.”

His Gartner colleague, Michael Silver, said that about 30 percent of corporate customers skip any given new version of Windows. But the percentage will be higher for Vista, Mr. Silver predicted. Gartner’s corporate clients that plan to skip Vista, like Intel, do not see value of this upgrade, particularly since it requires new PC hardware at the time when the economy is weak and corporate budgets are tight.

Still, Microsoft doesn’t seem to be suffering too much from the resistance to Vista by some large corporations. Microsoft says there are more than 140 million copies of Vista installed on machines worldwide. Consumers and small businesses simply get the operating system that is on a new machine when they buy a PC, and that is Vista.

Meanwhile, the Microsoft operating system engine chugs on, phasing out the old and proclaiming the new. The company reiterated this week that, despite some customer protests, it would halt shipments of the previous version of Windows, XP, to retail stores and stop most licensing of XP to PC makers next week. Microsoft also announced that the next version of its operating system, Windows 7, is scheduled to go on sale in January 2010.

Ouch.

jag

 

[Manic]

I want to switch to a Mac, but I'd just end up putting Windows on it to use a majority of the software and games on the market.

 

[black_dust]

Haha we brought a vista machine at work within a week we were putting XP back onto it because it was slow as hell and half our software didnt work.

I have Vista on one of my hardrives, its still on the shelf at the moment

 

[Rando Aces]

i love my mac.

 

[SFII]

but i just upgraded to XP last year!

over the past 10 years i've been through Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. F**k Windows Vista! i'm not looking forward to it.

 

[jaguarr]

I want to switch to a Mac, but I'd just end up putting Windows on it to use a majority of the software and games on the market.

And then you'd slowly start using OS X more and more, discovering alternative programs to the ones you're used to, and love the experience so much you'd find yourself spending less and less time in Windows.

jag

 

[Leto Atrides]

Is it just me, or are Macs completely irrelevant to what's going on in this thread and needn't have been brought up or discussed at all?

 

[jaguarr]

Is it just me, or are Macs completely irrelevant to what's going on in this thread and needn't have been brought up or discussed at all?

Since you can run Windows XP and/or Windows Vista on a Mac I would say it's not entirely irrelevant.

jag

 

[Manic]

And then you'd slowly start using OS X more and more, discovering alternative programs to the ones you're used to, and love the experience so much you'd find yourself spending less and less time in Windows.

jag

I play City of Heroes and will soon play Champions Online (both Windows games). I use Microsoft Works because it allows me to 'open' and 'save as' Word 2003 and Excel 2003 documents for only $40, whereas I'd need to actually shell out $140 to get Office Home & Student on a Mac just to share Word files. I'm fairly certain my digital camera's software disc doesn't have a Mac installation. My mp3 player is by Creative (less expensive than an iPod), which doesn't support Mac. The Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector I use to get my Wii and DS online doesn't support Mac (or Vista, for that matter). And while Garage Band looks like an awesome program, I'd need to hold on to my Acid Music Studio just to continue my old mixing projects. Not to mention I'd have to trade in my SimCity 3000 for SimCity 4.

I pretty much need to keep Windows XP. If I got a Mac, I'd have to install it just to use a lot of my crap.

 

[Girl_Wonder]

R.I.P
Windows XP



well at least they'll be security updates for XP until 2014.....

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

I have a vista latop, you wanna know what? It's ****. Going to buy myself a mac.