Obituary: Windows XP passes away, leaving behind millions of mourning supporters

PCWorld ^ | 4-8-2014

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Yep. They came and took away my XP box and left a Windows 7 box in it’s place. I’m struggling.

[cuban leaf]

I worked in a shop that used 98 a while ago. When we upgraded to NT based Win2k, one huge problem went away: Memory leaks. I HAD to reboot my 98 machine every two days at the absolute least. You could actually watch the memory drop as you opened word, closed it, opened it and closed it. Each time you started with less memory than the last time.

Ever since Win2k I’ve liked every other release. And one of my recording desktops with Win2k, Sonar version 1 and Winamp is a workhorse to this day. Got it back in the late 1990’s.

[discostu]

They can keep using the old boxes if they want. It’s not like MS is going remote delete the OS from them. But it’s a 13 year old OS, it was gonna get EOLed eventually, should have been a while ago.

[cuban leaf]

This looks like a great opportunity for Linux. Some of them, like the *buntu’s, make it easy for you to turn your Windows XP into an optionally bootable partition.

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Now, that’s a thought!

[cuban leaf]

It won’t stop running you can still use it..you just won’t get anymore patches or tech support for it..basically your on your own if something goes wrong with the OS

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So it’s like driving a car after the warrantee expires...

[Red Badger]

If you like your XP, you can keep your XP...............

[deoetdoctrinae]

[HiTech RedNeck]

Being closed source it’s a little different from, say, a UNIX being obsoleted.

[Red Badger]

Clippy is dead....................

[Moonman62]

And if the computers are not modern enough, they might not be able to run the crappy Window 8.1.

8.1 is a better version of Windows 7. All a person has to do is set it up to use the desktop by default.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well except if it blows a piston you won’t be able to get a third party one to replace it with when Microsoft has discontinued parts.

[doorgunner69]

Big whoop, if I read stuff correctly, it is IE that is most vulnerable and I never use that.

Regardless, I am leaving my well loaded XP machine as a tool to use disconnected from the internet. There are uses for computers beyond websurfing and email, believe it or not.

My new Win 7 machine fills in for the rest and may grow in capability slowly.

[longtermmemmory]

(s)but there will always be windows 3.1 (/s)

[Red Badger]

[fwdude]

I neither.

Anyway, a pretty witty article. Needed the chuckle.

[Red Badger]

Believe it or not, we still have a computer here at work that uses 3.1....................................

[cuban leaf]

Well except if it blows a piston you won’t be able to get a third party one to replace it with when Microsoft has discontinued parts.

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Yeah, but it’s so cheap that if it ever does, that is when I can replace it. :-P

[Red Badger]

Got one in back of me.................

[fwdude]

Why would anyone want to exploit holes in XP at this point. Not enough machines to bother with.

You'd be surprised.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Basically yeah..or when your PC warranty expires.