[Sacajaweau]

Microsoft should go back and use Windows XP for a base...so people can use their own programs and tap into new stuff.

[deoetdoctrinae]

I wonder if I'll be able to run Windows 9?

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[nuconvert]

I second that

[wku man]

Damn right. I refuse to give up my XP machine until something as reliable and easy to use comes around to take its place.

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.

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[rarestia]

Windows XP was the most insecure pile of crap ever conceived by a development shop. If you understand operating system kernel mode functionality or have any knowledge of the “under the hood” aspects of Windows in general, you would not be advocating this viewpoint.

EVERYTHING about which people are bitching since Vista is aesthetic or control based. The core operating system behind Windows since Vista has been the most stable revision of a Windows OS since DOS 6.2.

Advocating for the return of XP is sheer folly and a waste of time and breath. If you want to advocate for the GUI, go for it, but Microsoft cannot dumb down the UI because a small subset of the user community cries about it. Windows 7 is/was an amazing OS, and Windows 8 is incredibly stable and blazing fast. My only lament with Microsoft as of last is how much they’re speeding up their time to market for new operating systems. They need to let them bake in.

[daniel1212]

Microsoft should go back and use Windows XP for a base...so people can use their own programs and tap into new stuff.

I find few XP progs that do not work on W/8.1, while with the Classic Shell it is like XP.

But i also ignore the MS defaults as in not using Libraries, My Documents, and hot key much using AutoHotKey (not in Linux), including remapping CapsLock to crtrl+c, Esc to ctrl+v, and NumLok to Esc. and the middle mouse to ctrl+x, among other things. Thank God.