It's a perfectly valid reason to not buy a car, but it's an utterly stupid reason to say that the car, as a whole, is horrible - which is what people are saying about Windows 8 when most of the complaints are just about the UI.
As I recall, upon initial launch, XP was also susceptible to bugs (e.g ping of death) that had already been patched in older versions of Windows. I remember trying it out around 2002... gave it a month then went back to Windows 98 and didn't touch it again until 2006.
I run Windows 7 on my Thinkpad T60 just fine. It's a 1.66GHz Core Duo with 2GB RAM (which isn't even the max). Sure, it's a little slower than my desktop, but it runs at a perfectly acceptable speed for general web browser use. I'm not sure how Windows 8 would run on it, but I don't think it would be unusable (for performance reasons anyway... UI reasons are another story). That said, I keep begging my Thinkpad to die already so I can replace it with something with USB 3.0
Snow Leopard to Mavericks is the equivalent of upgrading Windows 7 to Windows 8, there's only a few years difference. Same with Ubunto 10.04 to 13.10. Upgrading XP to Windows 8 is much more akin to upgrading Debian 3 to Ubuntu 13.10, as there was no Ubuntu when XP came out, nor would there be for a few years.
It seems you're unaware that this article is about upgrading to Windows 8, which doesn't have Windows XP mode. Also, most home users wouldn't have access to it anyway in Windows 7 (IE: Home edition). Windows 8 does have Client Hyper-V for the business-oriented editions, but it does not include a free XP VM as Windows 7 did.
There aren't always alternatives available, especially when you're talking stuff like games. Most of my favorite games are from the late-90s because I feel many newer games tend to have too much micromanagement for what I want to do.
I actually just downloaded the ReactOS iso last week and am hoping to try it in a VM when I get some time... more than half of my PC games are pre-y2k.
How easy is it to upgrade from OS X 10.1 (Puma) to OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)? Puma came out a month before XP and Mountain Lion came out three months before Windows 8.
How easy is it to upgrade from Debian 3 (Woody) to Debian 7 (Wheezy)?
How easy is it to upgrade from Fedora... no, wait, Fedora 1 didn't come out until two years after XP. So let's try Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Enigma) to Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow)?
People forget that Windows XP is really goddamn old.
This is more likely because most other OSes have more transitional upgrades, whereas since Windows XP, each new version of Windows has been a pretty significant jump. From Win 95/NT to Me/2000, UI changes relatively extremely tiny. 2000 to XP had quite a jump (and most people hated it for the first few years it was out), and XP to Vista an even bigger jump. Windows 7 was a refinement of Vista's UI and was well-received. 8 was another big change and it floundered.
This, almost entirely. Metro sucks, but I found Windows 8 as a whole to be better. I switched back to 7 about a year ago just because of drivers issues, but once I'm convinced 8.1 has the biggest bugs shaken out, I plan to re-upgrade. I think too many people think of Metro and Windows 8 as being synonyms when they're really not. It's the equivalent of saying X model of car is absolutely horrible because you don't like the layout of the dash.
But that doesn't address one of the huge issues - software that runs on XP that won't run on Win 7 or 8 (especially 16bit software). In my experience, that's one of the main causes for not upgrading, and is the reason we still have an entire department on XP where I work.
My grandmother refuses to upgrade because she's so in love with the greetings card workshop software that came with her first computer in the mid-90's. It's run fine on each computer since, but definitely won't run on Win 7 or 8 so she won't upgrade again. I don't think your solution is any better for her, and she's pretty representative of a large segment of the people still on XP.
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I don't like New York City, but I still want their tax revenue. You can have reasons for wanting to keep something other than liking it. Also, I don't think Quebecois counts as a race, but logic doesn't seem to be your strength.
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It's a perfectly valid reason to not buy a car, but it's an utterly stupid reason to say that the car, as a whole, is horrible - which is what people are saying about Windows 8 when most of the complaints are just about the UI.
As I recall, upon initial launch, XP was also susceptible to bugs (e.g ping of death) that had already been patched in older versions of Windows. I remember trying it out around 2002... gave it a month then went back to Windows 98 and didn't touch it again until 2006.
I run Windows 7 on my Thinkpad T60 just fine. It's a 1.66GHz Core Duo with 2GB RAM (which isn't even the max). Sure, it's a little slower than my desktop, but it runs at a perfectly acceptable speed for general web browser use. I'm not sure how Windows 8 would run on it, but I don't think it would be unusable (for performance reasons anyway... UI reasons are another story). That said, I keep begging my Thinkpad to die already so I can replace it with something with USB 3.0
Windows 7 runs beautifully on my 8 year old Thinkpad, and is more likely to be compatible with Grandma's favorite greeting card maker than Mint is.
Snow Leopard to Mavericks is the equivalent of upgrading Windows 7 to Windows 8, there's only a few years difference. Same with Ubunto 10.04 to 13.10. Upgrading XP to Windows 8 is much more akin to upgrading Debian 3 to Ubuntu 13.10, as there was no Ubuntu when XP came out, nor would there be for a few years.
No need to pretend to be informative.
It seems you're unaware that this article is about upgrading to Windows 8, which doesn't have Windows XP mode. Also, most home users wouldn't have access to it anyway in Windows 7 (IE: Home edition). Windows 8 does have Client Hyper-V for the business-oriented editions, but it does not include a free XP VM as Windows 7 did.
There aren't always alternatives available, especially when you're talking stuff like games. Most of my favorite games are from the late-90s because I feel many newer games tend to have too much micromanagement for what I want to do.
I actually just downloaded the ReactOS iso last week and am hoping to try it in a VM when I get some time... more than half of my PC games are pre-y2k.
Especially given that Ubuntu 4.10 came out three years after XP, so it's an even bigger leap with Windows.
How easy is it to upgrade from OS X 10.1 (Puma) to OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)?
Puma came out a month before XP and Mountain Lion came out three months before Windows 8.
How easy is it to upgrade from Debian 3 (Woody) to Debian 7 (Wheezy)?
How easy is it to upgrade from Fedora... no, wait, Fedora 1 didn't come out until two years after XP. So let's try Red Hat Linux 7.2 (Enigma) to Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow)?
People forget that Windows XP is really goddamn old.
This is more likely because most other OSes have more transitional upgrades, whereas since Windows XP, each new version of Windows has been a pretty significant jump. From Win 95/NT to Me/2000, UI changes relatively extremely tiny. 2000 to XP had quite a jump (and most people hated it for the first few years it was out), and XP to Vista an even bigger jump. Windows 7 was a refinement of Vista's UI and was well-received. 8 was another big change and it floundered.
This, almost entirely. Metro sucks, but I found Windows 8 as a whole to be better. I switched back to 7 about a year ago just because of drivers issues, but once I'm convinced 8.1 has the biggest bugs shaken out, I plan to re-upgrade. I think too many people think of Metro and Windows 8 as being synonyms when they're really not. It's the equivalent of saying X model of car is absolutely horrible because you don't like the layout of the dash.
But that doesn't address one of the huge issues - software that runs on XP that won't run on Win 7 or 8 (especially 16bit software). In my experience, that's one of the main causes for not upgrading, and is the reason we still have an entire department on XP where I work.
My grandmother refuses to upgrade because she's so in love with the greetings card workshop software that came with her first computer in the mid-90's. It's run fine on each computer since, but definitely won't run on Win 7 or 8 so she won't upgrade again. I don't think your solution is any better for her, and she's pretty representative of a large segment of the people still on XP.
Your solution to being paid less than male colleagues is to eliminate the male colleagues?
I've also known a few guys who spend more time at work to get away from the wife, but rarely do I see the opposite.
How about we just call it "The V'Ger formerly known as Voyager 6"?
I'm pretty sure Lexus already has the patent on that. At least, that's what it feels like dealing with Lexus drivers sometimes...
So where is the line then?
Because NASA totally waited until the US didn't have any homeless people before heading to space...
Yes, they're going to start with the Slashdot ACs
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Just because people already live there doesn't mean it's safe for them to do so.
How, exactly, does liking the Scottish make someone full of hatred? Hatred usually implies something along the opposite of liking someone.
I don't like New York City, but I still want their tax revenue. You can have reasons for wanting to keep something other than liking it. Also, I don't think Quebecois counts as a race, but logic doesn't seem to be your strength.