One Year Later, "Dead" XP Still Going Strong 538
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from the killed-the-wrong-one dept.
from the killed-the-wrong-one dept.
snydeq writes "Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows XP a year ago today, no longer selling new copies in most venues. Yet according to a report from InfoWorld, various downgrade paths to XP are keeping the operating system very much alive, particularly among businesses. In fact, despite Microsoft trumpeting Vista as the most successful version of Windows ever sold, more than half of business PCs have subsequently downgraded Vista-based machines to XP, according to data provided by community-based performance-monitoring network of PCs. Microsoft recently planned to further limit the ability to downgrade to XP now that Windows 7 is in the pipeline, but backlash against the licensing scheme prompted the company to change course, extending downgrade rights on new PCs from April 2010 to April 2011."
Windows 7 (Score:5, Funny)
This trend will stop when Windows 7 is introduce.
Mark it on the wall.
Zombie XP (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Windows 7 (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, the Windows 7 theme really makes Vista much better.
Re:Zombie XP (Score:5, Funny)
And ketchup instead of bat blood...
Now they have to wait until the moon is in the Eighth House of Aquarius again to attempt the resurrection
Re:Success (Score:3, Funny)
Though if by "successful" they mean "successful at making their users' lives more difficult one bizarre error at a time", I'd say they're spot on.
It's dead, Jim (Score:5, Funny)
XP is going to die rather quickly once one or more of the following happen: 2.5TB or bigger hard disks drop below $100 (no GUID partition table support in XP), applications make good use of more than 4GB RAM (XP64 driver support "could be better"), USB3 devices become available in mass quantities (no USB3 support in XP), IPv4 addresses run out and major ISPs offer IPv6 access (IPv6 support in XP is incomplete and lacks a UI), Duke Nukem Forever is released for Windows 7 only.
Re:Count me in (Score:5, Funny)
I'm out of beer.
I'll be back.
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Funny)
Can we do away with the "XP still alive" stories?
Why? I was kind of hoping "XP is dying" would replace the "BSD is dying" joke since the latter is pretty much worn out and needs a replacement.
Soon to be dead (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Funny)
and a couple people will slurp up the Jobs flavored Kool-Aid
Where can I buy this Jobs flavoured kool-aid? I'm so glad all these big tech companies are investing in the flavoured beverage market. Why, I'm sitting here enjoying a cold glass of Google Gulp [google.com] as I type this. They really should make an MS-branded kool-aid beverage though, as long as its not Ballmer flavoured which would probably taste like armpit sweat [youtube.com].
Re:Count me in (Score:3, Funny)
So I'm building a new system for my wife and be sure that I'm going with Ubuntu.
There, fixed it for you. :) You really gotta learn to spell that right. It isn't that hard!
Re:Zombie XP (Score:3, Funny)
Look, it's not dead, it's resting. Wonderful OS the Windows XP, beautiful plumage.
Re:XP is Good Enough. (Score:2, Funny)
I'm headed down to the bus station. See you all later.......
Re:WIN 7 64bit on an SSD - feels like next gen (Score:2, Funny)
News flash! ... get your facts straight, Ballmer ...
Any OS running on 64 bit will support more than 4GB
Re:Some areas prefer Vista. (Score:3, Funny)
64 bit audio recording.
Wow, professional sound cards can do 64 bits now. Now that's a good dynamic range... My card only has 24 bits, but they are enough for me.
Re:Windows 7 (Score:3, Funny)
Can anyone explain why parent is modded "Troll"?
Re:Who cares? (Score:3, Funny)
Can we do away with the "XP still alive" stories? At this point "everyone" knows that people are going to continue using XP for as long as possible. The other people with Software Assurance or other Microsoft volume licensing programs are going to stay on XP just until they can plan a migration to Windows 7. A small minority will finally make the shift to Linux, and a couple people will slurp up the Jobs flavored Kool-Aid and justify spending significant amounts of money to be locked into a completely proprietary hardware/software "solution".
Can we do away with these retarded posts that complain about a story but comment on it? And yours was actually a juicy little useless rant - you really put your heart into it!
Re:It's dead, Jim (Score:1, Funny)
great. i'll be sitting there with my 3 terabyte drive, and windows vista ...which happens to suck at moving or copying terabytes of data.
fuck me.
and they call this progress.
Re:Windows 7 (Score:1, Funny)
I'm so glad I finally smartened up over the past few years and abandoned windows for greener OS pastures...
Re:Windows 7 (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, this throws me off too, but IMO it's more logical because everything else in the control panel is a Noun and not a Verb.
However, when technically adept users get tripped up by a Windows control panel being renamed, it's really no wonder that Linux isn't taking off on the desktop.
Re:Windows 7 (Score:3, Funny)
Once you reach OT level III, it's revealed to be "-1, pro-M$" but it's still shown as troll to the unbelievers.