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Microsoft Counts Down To XP Death
mikejuk writes "Microsoft have just released an end-of-support countdown gadget that ticks off the days until XP is no longer supported — but it only runs under Vista or Windows 7! It focuses the mind on the fact that XP is being forcibly retired. It is a wake-up call to think hard about the unpleasant situation and consider the alternatives.So as you watch the count down to XP's death tick by think about the problems created by using software that actually belongs to someone else..."
Unless you're the phone company or something similar, crying about 10 year old operating system software being unsupported is pretty weak. And hell, even the phone companies update the software on their switches at least yearly. The 4ESS has been around since the 70s but it's undergone a processor upgrade in the 1990s and the software was updated quarterly until very recently.
Also if you're the phone company you're not running Windows XP on your phone switches.
But seriously, think about what you were doing with technology 10 years ago. That's like 100 human years! (I know, that means nothing really) Can you imagine if someone was complaining that their Nokia 6250 from 2000 wasn't getting firmware updates anymore? Live in the now! Or the last five years!
Having had the displeasure of working with this abomination at work, I can tell you that whoever thought these "enhancements" to the "user experience" would be an improvement should be taken out back and beaten to bloody a pulp with baseball bat.
What used to be a simple process to change, such as changing the default path for a network drive, is now a convoluted mess that requires three times as much effort. For example, in XP, to change the default location for a user's documents, you would right-click My Documents, go to Properties, change the path, click OK.
In 7 you have to go through the Start button, something about users, select the correct user, make the modification, save the change then delete a second users setting then save all changes.
You cannot find anything quickly or easily in 7. Everything is a search. I don't want to fucking search for something when I know where it is.
It is impossible to see every program installed on your PC in one location. Who the fuck thought hiding things was a great idea?
I could go on but my complaints have been echoed by throngs of others. 7 just plain sucks. It's shit and should be treated as such.
I will do everything in my power to keep my parents XP systems running for as long as I can, MSFT be damned.
As for me, it looks like I'll have to take the plunge and go to Linux (and thrash about with that during the learning process).
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
What kind of moron buys 10 year old software? If you're too narrow minded to see the benefits of Win 7 over XP then you probably got what you deserved (and probably don't see the difference anyway). Seriously? Is Win 7 too expensive for you, or not up to your standards? Really?