Disney? Come up with a new idea? Hahaha, oh wow, are you kidding? They've finished sucking classical childrens stories dry, and now they've moved on to modern culture, Disney hasn't had a single original idea since the ink dried on Steam Boat Willy.
Your whole post just gave a great technical reasons.
The answer is when your hard disk dies you get a WIndows 7 cdrom and install it. I use Windows 7 everyday and do not see these hundreds of problems and BSOD on an hourly basis. If it were that much of a piece of crap businesses would still be using XP. Remember MS tried to EOL in 2008, 2011, and now 2014. However now they are finally upgrading since Vista is done and WIndows 7 SP 1 has been released.
XP has thousands of bugs too and is not perfect. I hate supporting XP at work. Can't run a system file check is really annoying. The cdroms are not teh same version as our image so half the files are not even checked and can take an hour where you have to keep clicking ignore when it pops up freaking out saying it can't find this.dll becuase of the 1 out of 900 updates since 2001 alterted the.dll.
I will even say it is one of hte most bug free OSes out there. I switched from Linux too it for that reason
If you're buying the latest and greatest gaming cards, you're probably going to want DirectX 10 or 11, good multicore support, and an OS that can handle more than 3-ish GB of RAM.
XP supports older games like unreal tournament 1. Even now new games still have some XP support because gamers still use it for compatibility reasons or they hate change and assume XP is supperior to longhorn.
After slashdoters wrote posts like WIndows 7 == Vista SP 2 they had an effect. Many assume WIndows 7 must suck too because that lie was repeated so many times everywhere by XP loyalists. Many are hesitant to change thinking it is just as slow and bloated and that somehow XP will run faster 100% of the time (not understanding algorithm changes and extra optimizations from the compiler added to the kernel for newer cpus).
But this is bad as AMD based boards come with ethernet, wifi, and other devices that wont work with XP at all.
THe ones in development have dropped 9 support. It seems 2011 was when the cut off started as Star Wars the Old Republic was the last game still made from that era that still supported XP. I think the new expansion with Rise of the Hutt Carterl is directx 11 only and has newer graphics options.
I know you hate IE as I hated it so much that I used ftp to download firefox back in the day as not to corrupt my cpu with such filth!
but IE 9 and IE 10 have supperior smooth scroll and hardware acceleration. My Galaxy 4 is smooth and Chrome and FF can't match it due to the inferior XP support!
IE is smooth when I hit up and down on the arrow keys thanks to using directx11.
No I am not a MS fanboy but just stating the obvious. I welcome Chrome and FF leaving XP behind and using directX11 for win64 to catch up. IE really is ahead for multimedia heavy sites.
Do you have any idea how fast a modern computer is?
I have a nice gpu not utilizing and aero is nice because it frees the cpu and speeds the cpu up as the GPU can take care of its tasks. This is not 1993 anymore
METRO (for me as opinions are subjective) issues are because you can't use the Windows 7 style features of managing more than one file and app multitasking together are due to the fact you can't have: 1. More than one applet on the screen 2. No taskbar for multiple apps 3. a Cell phone UI and desktop trying to co-exist 4. inferior instant search. Windows 8 apologist laugh at Windows 7 users saying they can now search for files by hitting the Windows Key!! Well duh. I have been doing that since Windows Vista folks. Trust me you used 7 like XP beforehand is the problem:-) 5. Crappy browser.
Windows 8.1 addresses more than one Window open Yeah Windows 8.1 addresses the crappy browser issue. IE 11 tells Apache to send Firefox (gecko) versions of docs as webmasters who hate IE assume everyone must use IE 6 still! So they feed broken HTML to modern versions of IE UGH. Idiots some of us are at work and do not have a choice, yet have left IE 6 in 2011. Even IE 8 is old now.
Windows 8.1 tries to bridge the gap between desktop and metro furhter. -EG. When you click the start button the same background pops up.
So, Windows 8.1 is an improvement.
My take is for me to leave WIndows 7 I must have better instant search and have the task bar and AERO enabled for me to stack apps. Yes, I will upgrade afterwards if this is met. I know cutting edge 32-bit graphics are out of style according to the fanbois at www.neowin.net and how EGA 4 color is the new in that is modern now, but if Windows 9 fixes this I will switch.
Folks Windows Mobile wont take over at 4% marketshare. We need a non webit browser for the phone and is worth the switch to me. I will not stikc with old because I hate change, rather the old is mature and works compared to the new.
Metro can work if more apps worked and if we had a gui with a taskbar for Mobile apps with Aero (yes good graphics are not obsolete while EGA 1989 graphics are in) it can be used with desktop and a mouse.
I frankly dont know know where you stand? Statcounter shows its death accelerating. XP in my mind is like IE 6. Different era and on its way out. In 2011 when IE 9 came out yes it was debatable as XP loyalists were huge then. Ms is heading the direcrion though Metro is poorly executed. IE is growimg up
I work for a dirt cheap client. Even we have been moving off XP for a year now. That number is rapidly declining and non biased sites like g.statcounter show XP equal to MacOSX in the US. Only china uses it as 97% is all pirated and Windows 7 is harder to steal it. By 2014 it will be single digit marketshare in the western world.
With rapid releasing the new IE 6 is webkit. MS is being conservative as it does not want another box model scandal for 10 years as developers write 2 different standards. I know its cool to hate IE but it does have 90% of Firefoxes features and is updated annually now. W3C already changed standards which hurt older phones as they recognize webkit css for Android 2.3.
True which made porting the FreeBSD userland apps much easier than an NT or Linux based kernel. While the kernel is still Mach based it is close enough that code can be cut and pasted in from FreeBSD with small efforts to compile itl.
Xenix is SCO Openserver. You really want that shit? 12 years ago slashdotters whined that it is the only unix OS that made admins want to switch to Windows. It is a 20 year time warp with it. The Unix haters manual has Xenix xerpets to make thier case why Unix is bad.
I prefer the Windows 8 kernel to that turd thank you very much.
Funny on my Asus board nothing above 12.10 works. I read and found out other Asus boards too can't run a more recent driver. Bumber as I was planning to upgrade to a ATI 7790 later this summer and 13.1 is the recommended driver.
It's an AMD chipset/cpu combo too!!... but intel ones work fine?
Sony used NetBSD for PSP according to slashdot. True Sony might have ported some Linux tools over to BSD, but BSD is something they are familiar with. I doubt the OS was linux based but I know you could run it on the PS2 from what I remember reading.
Apple also uses FreeBSD for the same licensing reasons not to mention it does not radically change and is designed rather than grown.
Bing is part of iOS 7 if you have been watching the news?
Also Firefox came out with a version with Bing that you can search for and MS supports. Only after this did Google relent. They originally planned to halt payments or pay less and Firefox was about to go all bing on them in return.
I am not saying it is better but any Android phone from Verizon is bing only and locked where you can't change. Mighty evil for MS to do as Google losses money for each one and makes it up with search results.... but hey Bing now how boolean search! Wahoo we can party like its 1999.
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Disney? Come up with a new idea? Hahaha, oh wow, are you kidding? They've finished sucking classical childrens stories dry, and now they've moved on to modern culture, Disney hasn't had a single original idea since the ink dried on Steam Boat Willy.
What are you talking about? Disney has re-innovated Star Wars quite well. Just look at the new characters introduced in episode 7?
Well better than Darth mouse!
Your whole post just gave a great technical reasons.
The answer is when your hard disk dies you get a WIndows 7 cdrom and install it. I use Windows 7 everyday and do not see these hundreds of problems and BSOD on an hourly basis. If it were that much of a piece of crap businesses would still be using XP. Remember MS tried to EOL in 2008, 2011, and now 2014. However now they are finally upgrading since Vista is done and WIndows 7 SP 1 has been released.
XP has thousands of bugs too and is not perfect. I hate supporting XP at work. Can't run a system file check is really annoying. The cdroms are not teh same version as our image so half the files are not even checked and can take an hour where you have to keep clicking ignore when it pops up freaking out saying it can't find this .dll becuase of the 1 out of 900 updates since 2001 alterted the .dll.
I will even say it is one of hte most bug free OSes out there. I switched from Linux too it for that reason
Catalyst includes AMD chipset drivers as well. I use it on my AMD based system.
If you're buying the latest and greatest gaming cards, you're probably going to want DirectX 10 or 11, good multicore support, and an OS that can handle more than 3-ish GB of RAM.
XP supports older games like unreal tournament 1. Even now new games still have some XP support because gamers still use it for compatibility reasons or they hate change and assume XP is supperior to longhorn.
After slashdoters wrote posts like WIndows 7 == Vista SP 2 they had an effect. Many assume WIndows 7 must suck too because that lie was repeated so many times everywhere by XP loyalists. Many are hesitant to change thinking it is just as slow and bloated and that somehow XP will run faster 100% of the time (not understanding algorithm changes and extra optimizations from the compiler added to the kernel for newer cpus).
But this is bad as AMD based boards come with ethernet, wifi, and other devices that wont work with XP at all.
IT is Bush's fault! It all started under him ... over 4 years ago right??
80% of computers use Intel's horrible integrated video chips. Unless you make Crysis you can't ignore this market.
That is rapidly changing.
THe ones in development have dropped 9 support. It seems 2011 was when the cut off started as Star Wars the Old Republic was the last game still made from that era that still supported XP. I think the new expansion with Rise of the Hutt Carterl is directx 11 only and has newer graphics options.
I know you hate IE as I hated it so much that I used ftp to download firefox back in the day as not to corrupt my cpu with such filth!
but IE 9 and IE 10 have supperior smooth scroll and hardware acceleration. My Galaxy 4 is smooth and Chrome and FF can't match it due to the inferior XP support!
IE is smooth when I hit up and down on the arrow keys thanks to using directx11.
No I am not a MS fanboy but just stating the obvious. I welcome Chrome and FF leaving XP behind and using directX11 for win64 to catch up. IE really is ahead for multimedia heavy sites.
Do you have any idea how fast a modern computer is?
I have a nice gpu not utilizing and aero is nice because it frees the cpu and speeds the cpu up as the GPU can take care of its tasks. This is not 1993 anymore
Aero has snap and aero peak.
I use it everyday at work and like to use my GPU for seeing all the dozens of apps opened without switching to take a peak
METRO (for me as opinions are subjective) issues are because you can't use the Windows 7 style features of managing more than one file and app multitasking together are due to the fact you can't have: :-)
1. More than one applet on the screen
2. No taskbar for multiple apps
3. a Cell phone UI and desktop trying to co-exist
4. inferior instant search. Windows 8 apologist laugh at Windows 7 users saying they can now search for files by hitting the Windows Key!! Well duh. I have been doing that since Windows Vista folks. Trust me you used 7 like XP beforehand is the problem
5. Crappy browser.
Windows 8.1 addresses more than one Window open Yeah
Windows 8.1 addresses the crappy browser issue. IE 11 tells Apache to send Firefox (gecko) versions of docs as webmasters who hate IE assume everyone must use IE 6 still! So they feed broken HTML to modern versions of IE UGH. Idiots some of us are at work and do not have a choice, yet have left IE 6 in 2011. Even IE 8 is old now.
Windows 8.1 tries to bridge the gap between desktop and metro furhter. -EG. When you click the start button the same background pops up.
So, Windows 8.1 is an improvement.
My take is for me to leave WIndows 7 I must have better instant search and have the task bar and AERO enabled for me to stack apps. Yes, I will upgrade afterwards if this is met. I know cutting edge 32-bit graphics are out of style according to the fanbois at www.neowin.net and how EGA 4 color is the new in that is modern now, but if Windows 9 fixes this I will switch.
Folks Windows Mobile wont take over at 4% marketshare. We need a non webit browser for the phone and is worth the switch to me. I will not stikc with old because I hate change, rather the old is mature and works compared to the new.
Metro can work if more apps worked and if we had a gui with a taskbar for Mobile apps with Aero (yes good graphics are not obsolete while EGA 1989 graphics are in) it can be used with desktop and a mouse.
I frankly dont know know where you stand? Statcounter shows its death accelerating. XP in my mind is like IE 6. Different era and on its way out. In 2011 when IE 9 came out yes it was debatable as XP loyalists were huge then. Ms is heading the direcrion though Metro is poorly executed. IE is growimg up
Oh cry me a river.
I work for a dirt cheap client. Even we have been moving off XP for a year now. That number is rapidly declining and non biased sites like g.statcounter show XP equal to MacOSX in the US. Only china uses it as 97% is all pirated and Windows 7 is harder to steal it. By 2014 it will be single digit marketshare in the western world.
Fud
I have firefox esr 17 which just came out. Not even e year old. 2 years ago it was Firefox 4
With rapid releasing the new IE 6 is webkit. MS is being conservative as it does not want another box model scandal for 10 years as developers write 2 different standards. I know its cool to hate IE but it does have 90% of Firefoxes features and is updated annually now. W3C already changed standards which hurt older phones as they recognize webkit css for Android 2.3.
True which made porting the FreeBSD userland apps much easier than an NT or Linux based kernel. While the kernel is still Mach based it is close enough that code can be cut and pasted in from FreeBSD with small efforts to compile itl.
Windows 8 can cure cancer and world hunger. Please buy it! We donate money to help save poor old kittens.
You don't hate kittens do you?
Xenix is SCO Openserver. You really want that shit? 12 years ago slashdotters whined that it is the only unix OS that made admins want to switch to Windows. It is a 20 year time warp with it. The Unix haters manual has Xenix xerpets to make thier case why Unix is bad.
I prefer the Windows 8 kernel to that turd thank you very much.
Funny on my Asus board nothing above 12.10 works. I read and found out other Asus boards too can't run a more recent driver. Bumber as I was planning to upgrade to a ATI 7790 later this summer and 13.1 is the recommended driver.
It's an AMD chipset/cpu combo too!! ... but intel ones work fine?
Sony used NetBSD for PSP according to slashdot. True Sony might have ported some Linux tools over to BSD, but BSD is something they are familiar with. I doubt the OS was linux based but I know you could run it on the PS2 from what I remember reading.
Apple also uses FreeBSD for the same licensing reasons not to mention it does not radically change and is designed rather than grown.
Bing is part of iOS 7 if you have been watching the news?
Also Firefox came out with a version with Bing that you can search for and MS supports. Only after this did Google relent. They originally planned to halt payments or pay less and Firefox was about to go all bing on them in return.
I am not saying it is better but any Android phone from Verizon is bing only and locked where you can't change. Mighty evil for MS to do as Google losses money for each one and makes it up with search results. ... but hey Bing now how boolean search! Wahoo we can party like its 1999.
Speaking as someone who has never had the misfortune of using SamSung Kies to sync their galaxy. Itunes doesn't look half bad in comparison!
Nothing Wow about it. Remember the maps issue that plagued iOS5? Apple redid their contract with Google to reintroduce Google Maps for the IPhone.
You can take a look yourself and listen to the difference.