NEVER!!
Can I downgrade to XP and claim the rebate?
People love XP and hate the rest. I wish I still had XP. I know lawyers that are still using Windows 98. Lawyers do not like change. Especially change for stupid reasons. You will find lawyers all across the country using old but perfectly good stuff.
Beside, with my eyes, the monitor is out of reach..........
I will likely take the advice of FReepers and just buy a new machine with Win7 loaded on it in the near future. Looks like less that $700 gets a darn nice box.
Bill Gates Sucks.
I noticed my doctor was using XP for he medical record computer during a recent visit.
Already got a macbook pro. My next desktop will be a mac. MS is stuck on stupid.
"Save $100 when you buy any Surface Pro 2 or select PCs over $599."
Shutting off XP support is gonna piss off the banking industry, and make them think hard about Linux!
Sum ting wong soon!
It is a stretch calling the change from XP to Win 8 an “upgrade”! XP—>Win7 maybe.
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I’m using XP Media Edition right now. I did get the message from Microsoft that I would no longer be supported or updated.
I’m keeping XP!!
I just bought a new HP laptop with a 17 inch screen and Windows 8 for $208. That allowed me to convert my old laptop to Linux Mint to replace my FIL’s XP box, and bought a used Windows 7 laptop for 50 bucks to replace Mrs. Chandler’s XP box.
Why would I want to spend $599+ when there are deals all over the place?
If Microsoft won't do it, I hope another company steps up to the plate. This is a real opportunity. About one in five computers worldwide run XP.
windows 8 sucks big time. Even trying to figure out how to play a dvd on the laptop with windows 8 takes time. What the hell were those people smoking when they designed windows 8. It’s a horrible, horrible program. Not user friendly, not at all.
If you are one of many customers still on dial up internet service WINDERS 8 is a horror story. The program has to talk to everyone which drastically slows browsing even with the Metered Connections turned to the off position which is supposed to stop unnecessary OS use of your bandwidth. I got to use maybe 15 MB bandwidth in 24 hours time. WINDERS 8 used 100MB talking to all the corporate friends. Closing functions in Task Manager can not stop it nor can selective start up.
ALL SYSTEM SETTINGS should be found in the Control Panel. Nope on W-8 half of them require going to the bottom right corner of the screen where suddenly another group of options pop up.
It is not fun or exciting to get a new machine and have to spend days configuring it or rather wading through the childish idiotic layout the so called great minds at Microsoft put on a desktop for reasons that defy any common sense whatsoever.
WINDOWS 8 Stinks. No amount of updates can fix it and the patches and updates already twice exceed the total MB's of XP patches and SP upgrades in it's lifetime.
WARNING TO ALL. Be very careful customizing the Horrid METRO screen. One wrong click on the Metro screen and the program is gone as in deleted. I would say something positive about WINDERS 8 if I could even one thing about it that isn't a royal PITA.
Seriously I will not ever purchase another Microsoft OS if this is the best they can do. XP was great. W-7 was close enough to XP people could adapt. WINDERS 8 Looks like someone went out of their way to make a system so dysfunctional it would frustrate anyone over 16 years old. Classic Shell helps just a little but still it doesn't help find configuration settings. The Stupid Goobers at MS need to get a clue. Perhaps when people stop buying their poorly designed dysfunctional crap they might learn? Their next OS should be closer to a XP or traditional WINDOWS layout and called Windows Apology.
Out of my cold damp hands maybe ...
lol....smart sneaky move by MS. Many of those old machines that run XP will likely crash due to hardware resource issues. They will make their $100 up and then some, with upgrades and new PC’s.