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The End is Nigh for XP
SlinkySausage writes "Computer makers have been told they'll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM by the end of this year, despite strong ongoing demand for the OS. Analysts and computer makers are wondering if the move is premature given Vista's ongoing performance and compatibility issues. Dell recently said it would reintroduce XP on a range of machines due to customer demand but Microsoft will only allow this until the end of the year."
You are also obviously lying. :) Thanks for playing and have a nice day.
(Hint: it's the uptime statement that got you - it's just not possible on Window for a variety of reasons I will not take the time to explain to a troll such as yourself. And anyway, what in hell's name is a 6-sigma level uptime? Oh, right, it's what Windows fanboys use when they know they've lost already... You, sir, are a waste of everyone's time. Please stop breathing, others can use the air for better purposes.)
Are you by any chance employed to support windows? I think you are. And if that's the case you should really start learning linux because you might find yourself out of job sometime soon.
:D
You're talking about Ubuntu not being reliable because it's only 5 years old. Well you obviously know nothing about linux. Ubuntu is just a distribution. The kernel is the important one and that particular component is very old and mature. It's curious how some people can still trust a company that has not given a damn about internet security (and I'm talking about IE) for a few years and it would have probably continued to do so if FireFox wouldn't have been released. Is that what you call reliability? Damn you're easy to satisfy!!
On the other hand Ubuntu is not only safe but reliable. I have not had any system failures in the past year of using Ubuntu (and never in my entire liux user life), but quite a few in my Windows life (not to mention a whole disk virus infestation that cost me most of my data). How's that for reliability.
I had to reinstall windows every 2-3 months but the Ubuntu installation is already 6 months old. Unreliable isn't it?
So I guess your 10 years of experience are really useless. Welcome to the real world
When I get new hardware, I will make sure XP drivers exist for each and every component. If they don't, I'm not going to buy it.
This is because I, for one, am not switching to Vista unless there is some serious software related compelling such a move. After years and years, XP has finally become reasonably secure enough to use if (and only if) you can apply 5 years worth of patches via Auto Update or something of the sort. I use Windows for its convenience. Switching to new bloatware is a lack of convenience, and being bloatware, the probability of 0days targetting it are far greater than boring old XP. No real reason to switch before 3-4 years if not more.
and its very easy to turn of all together, but the linux zealots are too busy hand-editing config files and such to learn such minute details.
/sigh
Yes...Bill Gates just wants your money. GIVE HIM YOUR MONEY!
Seriously. He gets money whether you buy XP or Vista. He doesn't care. Microsoft wants users to use Vista because it's actually a pretty nice OS. From a security standpoint alone, Vista is far above XP for the Average Joe who doesn't know how to lock down his system.
From my point of view, I feel that MS is trying to get people to the new OS in order to protect their butts from other security issues.
So I wasn't imagining things! Twice in the last couple of weeks my XP machine has rebooted itself after updating, and I would have sworn I never told it to do so, since I had a lot of stuff open (although none of it was in the same class as an unsaved document - it was mostly a lot of documentation and reports I had open. I was pissed, because it took a while to get everything arranged exactly as I wanted it.
Fucking idiots. God, how I hate microsoft.