My father has a PC with the Windows version before XP with the tiles/frames. He jokes it makes him immune to viruses because they are all made to exploit only newer systems.
The greatest OS in computer history.
Xp works fine. 7 and 10 are just feature creep for no other reason than for Microslop to sell more OSes.
Still running Windows 7 Enterprise at work. By order of in house IT.
for later
for later
I’d guess their estimate is low by at least an order of magnitude. If you have trouble with the NCR self-checkout lanes at Wal-Mart for example, and the attendant is savvy enough to know how to recover from faults without rebooting, you’ll see they’re running XP Embedded.
Still have XP at work, it’s fine.
Ask a Microsoft salesmen for a user what can be done with Vista, 7, 8 & 10 better than with XP.
Answer you get: They’re the newest thing, don’t be a dinosaur and/or Yo’ Momma jokes.
unix is older......
Good.
My XP desktop machine is still running fine. starting to see some weird issues like not being able to access my bank web site via Chrome but can get there via different browser. I keep XP because of 1000s of dollars of antiquated music recording software and it will be a huge deal for me to replace all of it. I have Win10 devices as well.
I still use Windows xp.. Love it..
Two of my fave programs won't run on Win-7 64 ... Photodex CompuPic, which was never ported into 64bit, and Micrografx Picture Publisher which was bought out by Corel and then subsequently killed by them ... sigh ...
And so I attempt to maintain my old XP 'puters just for those programs
Just had to repair a couple netbeui errors on one of my cnc controllers. XP works just fine for that. I even have my old workstations for software I never wanted to upgrade and works fine. I always tell the people who say I should upgrade or move to Mac feel free to buy me some new cnc machines and a new cmm and I would be happy to.
Windows XP was a very fast version that had a good combination of classic Windows and Windows NT. The Classic Windows that sprung from the very popular Windows 3.1 was commonly used on most Intel computers. While NT was used for those who needed connectivity like file serving or connections to advanced devices. But what made XP so good was the same thing that makes it so bad. It was very fast compared to later versions. And it was open to adaptation. Which was great for programmers. But some programmers are hackers. So viruses quickly and easily spread on XP machines after the OS spread through the world.
Versions of Windows after XP were just versions of XP with more features and security causing them to be slower. And only modestly more secure. Not until Windows 10 came out with Microsoft Edge, was there a full rewrite. A new OS from beginning to end. Windows 10 dramatically reduced viruses. And sped up the Windows environment which had been dogged by clunky patches over previous versions.
XP persists out of etrophy and certain “hacks” from thousands of programmers over the years who wrote some low level code to make “everything work”, then left the company without anyone who understands the code. Engineers that followed did not touch the machines because “they worked”. And so they have been quietly running in closets and the back of computer rooms for 15 years. At least until a virus found them.
I have a very expensive piece of hardware from the late 1990s that has software that will only run properly on a 32-bit XP system (I would assume 95 and 98 as well). Actually, it is a DOS application that has a windows-like GUI.
So, I’m stuck with XP (though my XP box is banned from Internet access, except in dire emergency).
But every time I fire up that system, I am reminded how nice XP really is.
I’m on the road and missed FR, so I bought a laptop that’s running Win10. Not too bad but I prefer my WIN7. I may have to get a buddy who has a computer shop to build me a machine with LINUX and put Virtual Machine on it to run Windows so I can let my wife use some of the apps she likes and to be able to play with some Access databases until I can convert them to the Open Office database because my wife informed me that the home machine with WIN 7 on it started acting up and won’t boot - mother board beep indicates it finally died. Will have to use the laptop until I decide on a replacement home machine.
I had to upgrade for Win 7. The PC didn’t have the speed, memory or capacity for win 7 that I used. I don’t have a XP disk anymore. I also upgraded to win 10. But I do have one win 7 disk from 2014. I did keep the machine I had before this one. It is a clunker but I need information on it. I can see why one would stay with XP or 7 for years after newer OS come out.
OK mister, you don't have to get insulting about it!