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What a great article, this one is a keeper. ;-)
http://atlantiswordprocessor.blogspot.com/2012/06/is-it-time-to-dump-windows-xp.html
http://atlantiswordprocessor.blogspot.com/2012/06/is-it-time-to-dump-windows-xp.html
What a great article, this one is a keeper. ;-)
http://atlantiswordprocessor.blogspot.com/2012/06/is-it-time-to-dump-windows-xp.html
Old, but good. I will keeping my XP Pro. SP3 until the machine dies, and
softwares and hardwares don't support it anymore.
I mentioned recently that I had a few machines in my shop that had no
Windows updates past SP2 and they were quite clean. The did at least
have up to date virus checkers.
My conclusion is that XP will still be quite viable after the support
ends. As long as one keeps a good virus checker and an updateable
browser, XP should have quite a few years left.
Of course sooner or later wanted hardware and software is going to come
along that will require newer versions of Windows so I do recommend to
my friends they move up to win7 or win8...but I tell them not to panic
about it.
Ah... that is why I really like machines that has no problems running
XP, Vista, 7, or 8. Most of my XP machines are this way (most come from
the later 2006 era). This one originally came with XP SP2, and runs 7
and 8 just fine. The drivers come with the Windows install discs for
Vista, 7, and 8 too.
Bill said:?? Why is that?
?? Why is that?
Incomplete DX9 support perhaps ?
End user wants to experience Aero Glass in all its glory ?
There were some Intel chipset (motherboard) graphics solutions,
that didn't quite measure up to the Aero Glass requirements.
There was a small stink about it, way back when. The OEM PC
came with stickers indicating they were capable, but the
reality was otherwise.
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/microsoft_could_lose_85_billion_“vista_capable”_lawsuit
http://blogs.windows.com/windows/ar...le-and-premium-ready-system-requirements.aspx
If you turn off all the animation effects you find in Windows,
you can probably get by with some pretty decrepit graphics
solutions.
I've used it for a number of years. It is a good program and reasonably
versatile. FWIW, I like it.
I take it there are some programs you use that require Windows 7 or 8 (or
even Vista)? (Otherwise I don't see any possible gain, except, perhaps, for
some newer hardware features with the newer machines)
Old, but good. I will keeping my XP Pro. SP3 until the machine dies, and
softwares and hardwares don't support it anymore.
There are no Win7 drivers for those older Intel video chips and Win7
uses the standard VGA driver. Usually that "standard vga" driver does a
pretty good job but often not good enough to use the machine for
multi-media.
For anyone who would want multi-media capabilities a card with a
manufacturer's driver usually gives better results and more choices of
resolution.
Just for an example, if one is using a wide-screen monitor..the
"standard vga" driver may not have the needed resolution setting to give
a non-distorted image.
I use mostly Microsoft and Adobe software and all ther new versions are"Stopped supporting" is one thing. "Not being able run" on XP is another.
I think there still are quite a few programs out there that will run on XP,
although admitedly, the list is shrinking. I certainly wouldn't say ALL
recent software requires Win 7 or better. Then again, I haven't been
looking too hard, since most of the newer software is just even more
bloated, with features I have little interest in - including social media.
Sometimes Less Is More.
Good said:I use mostly Microsoft and Adobe software and all ther new versions are
for Windows 7 and above.
For example, you don't get IE for XP after 8; You can't get Office 2013
for XP; You can't get Adobe CC for XP. So your only choice is to get a
new machine and get the new software or remain with XP and be like
Windows 98 users. There are still many out there using Windows 98.
Hot-Text who comes here regularly is one of them.
What? Intel makes GPUs? They might for all I know but what they are
known for is integrated graphics. The ones I know very well are the
915GM and the 945GM ones. The 915 ones are stuck with single core
processors, don't ask I don't know why? And while the hardware is fully
capable I am told to support Aero, the driver wasn't ever enabled to do so.
The Intel 945GM was totally different, it could and so could the driver.
And they supported either single core or duo core processors. If the
motherboard had a socket, almost always you could plug in either or.
IMHO any machine with a single core processor just doesn't do it for me
with Vista or higher. A duo core changes everything and now we are talking.
This machine for example has an Intel T7400 2.16 GHz duo core processor
with Intel 945GM. It works beautifully with XP, Vista, 7 or 8. That is a
lot of Windows versions right there. I never tried, but Windows 2000
might even run fine too. Although the Intel drivers are supposed to work
back to Windows 98, I never went back that far with them. But that is
pretty great if you ask me.
I use mostly Microsoft and Adobe software and all ther new versions are
for Windows 7 and above.
For example, you don't get IE for XP after 8; You can't get Office 2013
for XP; You can't get Adobe CC for XP. So your only choice is to get a
new machine and get the new software or remain with XP and be like
Windows 98 users. There are still many out there using Windows 98.
Hot-Text who comes here regularly is one of them.
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Andy said:That is not a problem because there are alternatives like LibreOffice,
etc.
We are not Microsoft's slaves anymore.
Bill in Co said:What about Kingsoft Office? Someone in here (I forgot who now)
pointed that one out, and it seems to be pretty good - even the
freebie version. (The word processor, at least, looks pretty similar
to Word).
What a great article, this one is a keeper. ;-)
http://atlantiswordprocessor.blogspot.com/2012/06/is-it-time-to-dump-windows-xp.html
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Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12
Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 8 Pro w/Media Center
[]I thought all software and hardware have stopped supporting XP. Have
you seen any software recently that runs on XP or any new hardware that
supports XP? I haven't.
LOL. No debate on the last two points. The first one may be (and I
think is) debateable, however.
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