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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."
So since they can't sell vista they shall force it upon us. Time to burn stacks of Ubuntu Live CD's! GOGO!
Gun?
Check.
I think you can figure out the rest.
Seriously... This is a good move on Microsoft's part only if they enjoy annoying their customers.
Wait, why did I bother putting that 'only if' in there?
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
Force once Microsoft is trying to do the right thing.
They're going to take XP off the market, then a couple months later after they get tired of everyone bitching about Vista, they'll reintroduce it as Windows Classic. Either that or as XP SE.
From the article:
If you're a consumer, you're unlikely to be managing more than say 2.4 OS images at home
What is the 0.4? Windows 98?
$30k worth of games? You must weigh about 500 pounds. Put down the Chicken McNugget and invest your next $30 on a Dance Dance Revolution CD and a dance mat. Or I don't know, go really crazy and take a walk around the block. Who knows, your heart might not give out before you're 40.
make sure to snip all the enclosed plastic rings...
Man, I used to beat someone like you up in high school.
I feel old. (Still have no patience for evangelists, I must be new here, etc. etc.)
For the Fedora users:
yum -y update
For Windows Users
Run Windows Update
Do you want to reboot now?
Later...
Do you want to reboot now?
Later...
Do you want to reboot now?
Oops I'm away from my desk for five minutes.
Come back. WHere's all my stuff!
For the Fedora users:
yum -y update
For Windows Users
Run Windows Update
Do you want to reboot now?
You: Heck, no I am doing some important work Later...
Do you want to reboot now?
You: What the hell
Do you want to reboot now? * clicking on yes on the new popup* Oops I'm away from my desk for five minutes.
Come back. WHere's all my stuff! You: NOOOOOO !
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
Do you remember Windows ME? It seems like history is repeating itself again.
Let me use an analogy... You can take a Honda Civic and with very liberal applications of accessories bolt on enough stuff to make it riced out enough so that it (almost) appears to be a Porche. Of course, it still isn't a Porche, just a Honda with a bunch of bolted on toys... Microsoft seems to have a problem understanding this, and this is one reason why I think they keep on making the same OS mistakes.
Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est. Omnes castelli tuus nostri sunt. Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
you should respond to the windows update just the way you respond to your gf.
I don't see why people should update their Windows computers either. Those zombie programs run fine on machines that haven't been upgraded for years, you don't need upgrades to run the latest software.
May contain traces of nut.
Made from the freshest electrons.
Another way is to click on the reboot modal dialog box in an morse code pattern that says "SOS" (that's 3 longs, 3 shorts, 3 longs), then pull out our keyboard connector and wistle Dixie into the thus freed port and finally turn your chair 3 times counter-clockwise, click your heels and say "i wish i was back in Munich".
This is not documented anywhere but i heard it from a guy who knows a guy whose father-in-law used to work with someone whose sister worked at Microsoft, so it must be true.
Wow, that's intuitive. Do I have to stand on any particular leg while performing this arcane ritual?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Wow, you're using an operating system that is 7000 years ahead of its time...that rocks :)
Seems like you need some new hardware before software anyway - your period key is broken..
which is totally what she said
Clippy is more than a 1.5b/year debt to humanity.