In 10 weeks, Microsoft Corp. will begin to retire Windows XP by shifting the seven-year-old operating system into a more limited support plan.
Windows XP, Microsoft's most successful operating system ever, will leave what the company calls "mainstream support" on April 14, and enter "extended support." Typically, Microsoft keeps a product in the former for five years, then moves it into the latter for another five, for a total of 10 years. However, the long span between the releases of XP and its successor, Windows Vista, forced the company to push out the support deadline to 13 years altogether.
Also, two years ago, Microsoft bumped support for Windows XP Home and XP Media Center to the 2009 and 2014 dates, matching the dates that had previously been set for Windows XP Professional, the designated business edition of the operating system.
By Microsoft policy, mainstream support delivers free fixes -- for security patches and other bug fixes -- to everyone. During extended support, all users receive all security updates, but nonsecurity hot fixes are provided only to companies that have signed support contracts with Microsoft.
Several Microsoft spokespeople confirmed that today. "Customers will have access to extended support for paid support, security support updates at no additional cost and paid hot fix support," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail. Firms must purchase an extended support contract within 90 days of XP's mainstream support
From what a couple of my M$ contacts told me; by the end of this year windows 7 will be out, and windows vista and windows 7 will be the only os's being supported ... So if you were going to switch to vista, or are holding off, now is a good time to do it.
I'll probably continue to run XP on all of my computers until I buy a substantially upgraded machine. I'd even be content running 2000 if I had to. I have some pretty clean Ghost images of all my XP machines, so I'll continue to use those.
I'm just finally starting to get a hang of Office 2007 at work and school. I still hate that damn .5 space that Word likes to put inbetween paragraphs.
"He's the electric horseman, you better back off!" - old sKool making a reference to the culturally relevant 1979 film.
bassist_25 wrote:I'll probably continue to run XP on all of my computers until I buy a substantially upgraded machine. I'd even be content running 2000 if I had to. I have some pretty clean Ghost images of all my XP machines, so I'll continue to use those.
I'm just finally starting to get a hang of Office 2007 at work and school. I still hate that damn .5 space that Word likes to put inbetween paragraphs.
Microsoft Word is the biggest piece of crap software known to man.
I remember being in like 10th grade in high school, and at home we had this cheesy word processing software that ran off of DOS. The screen was blue, and nothing was WYSIWYG at all. If you bolded a word, it was represented by turning green. Our teachers would tell us how to do things in Word for our papers, and I was thinking, "Dude, my word processor is a fuckin' DOS program that doesn't even use the mouse."
"He's the electric horseman, you better back off!" - old sKool making a reference to the culturally relevant 1979 film.
bassist_25 wrote:I'll probably continue to run XP on all of my computers until I buy a substantially upgraded machine. I'd even be content running 2000 if I had to. I have some pretty clean Ghost images of all my XP machines, so I'll continue to use those.
I'm just finally starting to get a hang of Office 2007 at work and school. I still hate that damn .5 space that Word likes to put inbetween paragraphs.
Microsoft Word is the biggest piece of crap software known to man.
You know, except for vista.
Laugh if you want to, really is kinda funny, 'cause the world is a car and you're the crash test dummy.
bassist_25 wrote:I'll probably continue to run XP on all of my computers until I buy a substantially upgraded machine. I'd even be content running 2000 if I had to. I have some pretty clean Ghost images of all my XP machines, so I'll continue to use those.
I'm just finally starting to get a hang of Office 2007 at work and school. I still hate that damn .5 space that Word likes to put inbetween paragraphs.
Microsoft Word is the biggest piece of crap software known to man.
You know, except for vista.
I have Vista on my home computer and I couldn't be happier with it. I've had no issues in a littel over a year. With XP I was always having issues and having to restore and recover and everything else. I'm not that computer smart but I have no complaints.
Don't bitch to me about the economy while you're still buying Chinese products.
i personally - use vista on my laptop. im not gonna say it hasnt given me issues - cause the moment i do, the damn thing will crash lol. but from a tech standpoint - xp is a lot easier to navigate.
awwe....crap!!
I bought a new laptop a few months ago (November I think) and it automatically had Vista installed on it. I had never used vista before this, as my old laptop and my fiancees computer had xp on it. I f-ing hate Vista!!!
....and now I f-ing hate Microsoft, too.
I really liked xp, personally. All Microsoft software has issues...but xp had very manageable issues that didn't want to make me throw my laptop out the window every 10 friggin minutes. I don't know if its bad programming and design or if its just a new system and there are still kinks that need to be worked out, but vista has problems and I don't think its nearly as user friendly as xp. It is, however, much, much more annoying...at least in my opinion.
Colton wrote:Thats who its really targeted for, the regular users. Us pc techies fucking hate it.
This PC techie loves it .... I couldn't tell you the last time I had xp on my computers. I been using vista since it was alpha and it has been great for me ...
I remember waiting for MS to send us the first XP Pro beta, it was called Whistler. We couldn't wait for it at work. I still have it running on one of my old boxes, just for shits and giggles. Then there was the infamous cd key leak, someone from MS took a picture of a corporate cd key on a disc in front of the MS building and released it all over the net..lol. I used it for years till they finally patched. I started computing in dos and XP has been the best from MS ever.
If your a hardcore gamer, stay away from Vista. I have plenty of friends that game for money and they stick with XP.
Does xp support directx 10 yet? I know the newer games, like crysis requires vista because of the graphics intensity and directx 10, unless they changed in recently.
That is something else also - you will find some of new video cards require vista as well. From what I seen and experienced; some of them won't even install on xp ....
f.sciarrillo wrote:Does xp support directx 10 yet? I know the newer games, like crysis requires vista because of the graphics intensity and directx 10, unless they changed in recently.
No, there was a hack for it but it failed, maybe ill look again to see if it works now. I play Crysis with a 8800gtx and can run on high settings, get about 50-60 fps. It runs on DX9. With all the hype Crysis kinda failed, it was too buggy. Good story line and graphics. FPS is everything in gaming, some will run lowest settings to get there kills without caring about looks. But then it dont say much for there rig.
Started my next build, Ordered a Intel I7 920 with some 8 gig DDR 3 and a EVGA X58 SLI mobo. Cant wait to bench it.
Yeah, quad core is going down. It's a shame that the i7's (with triple channel ddr3, x58 motherboard) will only be compatible with the lga1366 processors.
Although intel has a new dual channel ddr3 out that will handle the other quad cores. But, if you are going to go the with i7 you want to get the triple channel memory ... they aren't that bad of a price. The one I have pieced together so far is less than a thousand dollars. Of course that is without the hd and monitor.
bassist_25 wrote:I'll probably continue to run XP on all of my computers until I buy a substantially upgraded machine. I'd even be content running 2000 if I had to. I have some pretty clean Ghost images of all my XP machines, so I'll continue to use those.
I'm just finally starting to get a hang of Office 2007 at work and school. I still hate that damn .5 space that Word likes to put inbetween paragraphs.
Microsoft Word is the biggest piece of crap software known to man.
People should break the cycle and use the free open source Openoffice.org. I thoroughly tested V2.2 in an office environment and only found a few small incompatibilities with MS Office. These problems only appeared if you misused Excel. They just updated to V3.01:
LW, I downloaded Open Office to a folder, but it sits as a cabinet file, and I can't figure out how to open and run it. Anything I should know? (If it's not Rockpage, Ebay or porn, it's over my head.)--->JMS
songsmith wrote:LW, I downloaded Open Office to a folder, but it sits as a cabinet file, and I can't figure out how to open and run it. Anything I should know? (If it's not Rockpage, Ebay or porn, it's over my head.)--->JMS
If its around 150MB big, then all you should have to do is double click it. It will extract itself to a folder in Docs & Settings and then run after it expands.
If its not around 150 MB, there was probably a problem with the download and you need to download it again. When you download it, choose "Save As" and put it in a download folder of your choice. It should be double-clickable then.
...Oh, the freedom of the day that yielded to no rule or time...
songsmith wrote:LW, I downloaded Open Office to a folder, but it sits as a cabinet file, and I can't figure out how to open and run it. Anything I should know? (If it's not Rockpage, Ebay or porn, it's over my head.)--->JMS
songsmith wrote:LW, I downloaded Open Office to a folder, but it sits as a cabinet file, and I can't figure out how to open and run it. Anything I should know? (If it's not Rockpage, Ebay or porn, it's over my head.)--->JMS
You need to have java installed to run it.
what the hell does coffee have to do with it!?
If I ever see an amputee getting hanged... I'm just gonna start yelling out letters...
.... I couldn't tell you the last time I had xp on my computers. I been using vista since it was alpha and it has been great for me ...
