One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong

snydeq writes "Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP a year ago today, no longer selling new copies in most venues. Yet according to a report from InfoWorld, various downgrade paths to XP are keeping the operating system very much alive, particularly among businesses. In fact, despite Microsoft trumpeting Vista as the most successful version of Windows ever sold, more than half of business PCs have subsequently downgraded Vista-based machines to XP, according to data provided by community-based performance-monitoring network of PCs. Microsoft recently planned to further limit the ability to downgrade to XP now that Windows 7 is in the pipeline, but backlash against the licensing scheme prompted the company to change course, extending downgrade rights on new PCs from April 2010 to April 2011."

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Re:ARE YOU LISTENING, MICROSOFT?

[moogsynth]

I've been using 64-bit Linux since 2006, and it's exactly like running 32-bit Linux, except you can use more RAM.

You can use more than 4gb of RAM on 32-bit Linux, too. All you have to do is install a Physical Address Extension (PAE) aware kernel:

sudo sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server linux-image-server linux-server
sudo shutdown -r now