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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday

they stopped selling windows xp with new computer(like laptops), so that every thing new would have a windows vista certified logo thingy. then they stopped selling xp to corporations, it's a process thing, and that's the end of it.
 
The Third Man said:
Update to Vista or...?
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You buy the Vista virus and then you can officially downgrade to XP to make the 'puter operational :devil:

I think even Balmer realises they screwed up big time, for god's sake, they use the bloody damn thing themselves :)
 
I'm still not buying Vista but asking myself how Scratch can be installed on the system that you cannot buy anymore!?
 
Yep, I'm running XP Pro or XPx64 on all our machines, it's stable, always works (for me, but I keep the machines super clean), and believe it or not never crashes on me. I have vowed not to touch Vista, I'm sticking with XP until I have absolutely no choice, and even then I'd probably rather sell everything and move entirely onto an Apple platform (apart from the Scratch machine of course, Windows only).
 
The Third Man said:
I'm still not buying Vista but asking myself how Scratch can be installed on the system that you cannot buy anymore!?
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Neither do I , but, hmmm, not only Scratch but about 99% of other useful software out there doesn't run on Vista. Why would anyone with their right mind want it? :ranting2:
 
I bought my wife a new Dell about a 6 months ago and it came with Vista.
It's horrible. Microsoft will really boost Apple sales if they quit selling XP.
 
Red Guy said:
Microsoft will really boost Apple sales if they quit selling XP.
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Are you suggesting that Microsoft if finally doing something right? ;)

That said, I am sure that if you can afford Scratch, you will find ways of getting Windows XP. I for one would happily trade my (for years unused) Windows XP box for your Red. Or Scratch, if you insist ;)
 
...I've got a dozen or so unused XP licenses and OEM packages. Might have to dust them off and put them on ebay in a few months. Although, just like all prior MS operating systems, XP will be easy to come by. This just means that now when we order up a new Dell or HP or whatnot, we can't choose XP as a configuration option.

That said, I've actually had an OK experience with Vista 64bit. It has been quite stable for me on several systems and I don't experience a lot of the compatibility problems some people rant about. I don't run too much software, I'm pretty selective and keep to what I need, don't install all sorts of crap and shovelware... XP is still more stable for me, but only after years of updates and service packs and continuous complaints by users, lest we forget that. Vista is more stable for me now than XP was the first couple years of its existence. Not that it justifies any of the problems or whatnot, perhaps that's why I'm predominantly a Mac guy these days when I was mostly a hard-core PC user only recently. The problem for me with Vista has been overall performance. It's a dog. It's a bloated whale. MS needs to suck it up, go back to the drawing board at stage one and design a new OS around the Windows kernel -- which is actually quite a good core implementation.

IMO, the biggest mistake Microsoft made with Vista was producing and selling 32bit versions. The next big mistake they made is selling all the different versions of the OS. They should have Vista and Vista Server and be done with it. ...Then again, these are the marketing geniuses that brought us the Zune in that attractive brown color and they refer to wireless music/ file sharing between Zune players as "squirting".
 
Vista works excellent here. One of the main reason we are changing the networks over to vista is its extremly faster network transfer speed.

You have to be aware that the exact same topics always raise when Microsoft introduces a new OS. It was no different with Windows NT 3.51, NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP and will raise again when Windows 7 is released in 2010.

p.s. btw, the codename for windows 7 is "vienna".
 
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