If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Posted on 07/28/2014 4:25:25 PM PDT by markomalley
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
Edsel.
Dittos! Mrs p6 and I were concerned when she bought a nice new laptop with W8. Both of us used XP at work. Within a week no problems. I did install Classic Shell but there is no need for it. Both our workplaces are now on 7 or 8.
In fact we both prefer W8 now.
I still have XP on an older deskktop that I used mainly for my wireless webcam and wireless weather station but XP stumbles and locks several times a month. When I run them from her laptop no problem.
Same with photoshop and several other programs we use.
Looking forward to building an up to date desktop with W8 or maybe 9.
Say you log on to another Windows 9 PC using your login and password –not only will your data files be accessible from your cloud storage, but also the apps you use.
XP officially went out of support last April (or thereabouts).
I’m thinking of grabbing an old XP from a comp shop near me. I have some old programs and was force to buy windows7 pro to run them. With no support, I might as well go for an old XP since it won’t be hooked to the web.
"Just A Rather Very Intelligent System", in case anyone was wondering.
Thank you for the heads up on the Shell. I just ran it and like it a lot.
Other than getting used to the layout of 8, it has worked very well so far. Having a W7 type feel is a big improvement.
Weird since I have had absolutely no problems with it at all. I program in Visual Studio and SQL Server all day and no issues. Oh well, to each his own I guess.
This whole thing with cloud based apps is trying to get you to pay a hundred a month on a regular basis like broadband providers receive.
They figure if we are dumb enough to continue to pay for the cost of broad band at the rates out there, why not lock us in for software and also control our data and files.
MS got to be too troublesome. My wife didn’t want a new computer but hated and bitched constantly about her eight year old out of date and glitchy windows machine. I bought her a Mac Air and after about an hour of fiddling and asking, she is now a happy computer user again.
I detest apple prices but at least the stuff works year after year. I have business computers that others maintain and pay for to use with business apps.
“When a greedy company has to change its product regularly to sell new stuff and say we will under no circumstances help with the old stuff because we want to make money on a new one, it is time to step back and look for something else.”
What else are you going to find that is any different? I guarantee if you called Apple looking for security updates for Mac OS 7 they would laugh at you.
XP officially went out of support last April (or thereabouts).
It still works better than windows 8
I recently got a "smartphone", and hate it. I'll keep my desktop, thank you very much, and use a laptop when away from my desk.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
and Willard Mitt Romney’s ORCA...
That is what I am thinking also.
I agree, I just do not understand the hate. I use it for 8 to 10 hours a day and like it a lot. I had almost no learning curve either.
Haters gonna hate. =)
Have a question for you...
Do you still get help on your 1979 Television set? Or did you go out an buy a newer version of what is called a television set today?
Software, just like every thing else in this god given world, after a time becomes obsolete. The effective cost to keep supporting a 1979 television set is just too much so the television company probably dropped support on it.
Microsoft does the same thing as every other software company does, it takes a look at the usedful service life and determines a kill date for support. XP has served its useful service life and Microsoft now puts its efforts and monies into servicing and supporting a newer product.
Microsoft is not greedy in this regards people are resilient to change. The OS changes are not so much driven by software companies more so by the changes in newer hardware technologies. I don’t hear too many complaints when Apple changes its OS. Sometimes a business is a hit or miss. However you never really know until you put the product on the market and get feedback from that. Study groups are supposed to be a microcosm of that feedback but in the end it all boils down to can you make money off it. If you can you got a good product, if not its time to go back to the drawing board.
I am sure you will find support for a VIC 20 or Commodore 64 from the companies that designed and mass produced them.
Technological change is theoretically supposed to be good.
The Win8 features I don't like have to do with those stupid new full-screen apps. You know, the ones that take up the full screen on launch, with absolutely no window frame visible - like the old DOS apps. Isn't this supposed to be "Windows"? If so, where are the windows? Seems like a major step backward to ancient DOS days to me.
Trying to remember how to get out of one of those stupid new full-screen apps is a pain. You "swipe in" (with a mouse?) from one of the sides of the screen - just can't remember which one. Not intuitive at all.
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