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   Anonymous
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   http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/windows-xp-gets-yet-another-reprieve-from-microsoft/6819?tag=nl.e539

   Windows XP gets yet another reprieve from Microsoft
   Users who purchase new PCs installed with Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate will now be able to downgrade to XP up until January 15, 2015
   so XP must be the best so far hard to sell windows 7

   Posted 13 years ago #
2. 

   Inas
   Member

   Wonderful news - thanks much for sharing, hotdoge3.

   Posted 13 years ago #
3. 

   copmom
   Member

   Glad to hear that. When I got this machine I had to pay $100 to downgrade from Vista to XP! Of course they sent me the Vista CD in case I wanted to upgrade, but I am NOT!

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   HOSS
   Member

   I run XP also. For me to upgrade to Windows 7 I would have to upgrade my machine (I refuse to go to Vista). I could get 7 cheap I am sure since I have a relative that works for MS but upgrading the machine isn't cheap. Maybe when I can spare a few hundred dollars I might go for a refurbished machine from Geeks.com. I've never bought anything from them refurbished but I have heard good things so I might be willing to take the risk.

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   RosnSC
   Member

   It's good news for *me*, as I actually prefer XP even to 7. Out of my entire family, I am the one most up and up on computers, and thus the go-to 'guy' when something goes wrong. I said that to say this; out of my entire family, I am also the only one not enamoured with 7. Something I could easily do with XP I screwed up with 7, simply because the format is different. I can't get the hang of saving things to a documents file, i.e. My son keeps all his passwords on his jump drive. I was saving a new one to the drive for him, and accidentally deleted all of them, simply because of the difference between saving things to docs in XP and 7.

   Posted 13 years ago #
6. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   PCs installed with Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate will now be able to downgrade to XP up until January 15, 2015 (for Windows 7 Professional) or January of 2020 (for Windows 7 Ultimate), according to Computerworld’s calculations.
   http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/74-of-work-pcs-still-run-xp-and-theyre-44-years-old/36641?tag=nl.e539
   74% of work PCs still run XP, and they're 4.4 years old.
   Still plan to use XP till the cows come home?
   http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179109/Microsoft_extends_Windows_XP_downgrade_rights_until_2020

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_Vista

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_7

   http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Did-Microsoft-hand-you-a-pink-slip-this-week/1278604916

   http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Office-2010-belly-flops-in-early-retail-sales-dive/1279136453

   US consumers and small businesses aren't rushing out to buy Office 2010

   http://hardgeek.org/office-2010-wont-support-windows-xp-64-bit

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   ilta
   Member

   oh for god's sake. vista was awful but 7 is a dream. do you really want to run a 15 year old OS?

   c'mon kids, the water in the deep end of the pool is just fine.

   Posted 13 years ago #
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   copmom
   Member

   @ilta, if this 15 year old OS works.. and isn't 'broke' I don't want to 'fix' it with 'new improved'! At least after all this time they've had the chance to work all the bugs out! Oftentimes the new things are NOT as good as the reliable older things, so I'm staying out of the deep end of the pool! Millenium was awful, then vista, so I think a lot of us are gun shy about switching to anything new! And, look at all the GOTD offers that won't work on Vista!

   Posted 13 years ago #
9. 

   Robert
   StrayCat

   I couldn't agree with you more,copmom.
   I'm running XP,Vista and 7...and I like swimming in the deep end of the pool..but XP still has its charm.
   What's more a lotta companies still cling to XP ..so even if 7 appears to be a dream to you Ilta...they must have a perfectly good reason not to upgrade (yet).

   Posted 13 years ago #
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    copmom
    Member

    Robert... are you running all of them on the same machine??

    Posted 13 years ago #
11. 

    Robert
    StrayCat

    I was planning to do that,copmom..but I didn't get around to do it yet.....but for now I'm running XP on an older but DIY refurbished machine and a dual Vista/7 boot on my portable.

    Posted 13 years ago #
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    copmom
    Member

    Ah.. that explains it. I would think it would be a bit 'much' to have 3 different OS going on one machine. As I said before, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"!

    Posted 13 years ago #
13. 

    Lester (Chip)
    English Mod

    Dear lord I love Vista and hate XP. Why must old people cling to the past...

    Posted 13 years ago #
14. 

    Robert
    StrayCat

    Hey Chip,you'd better watch what you're saying...
    We're not that old.LOL.

    Posted 13 years ago #
15. 

    Suze
    Member

    Because most 'old people' have been around the block a few times, have more wisdom and experience, and have a longer perspective on many things now that we didn't have when we were younger. That's why!

    [BTW, I started out as a Programmer in 1969 . . .]

    Posted 13 years ago #
16. 

    Robert
    StrayCat

    I'm sure Chip didn't mean anything by it,Suze...
    To add to the confusion Windows XP was launched October 2001 (so it's not really a 15 year old OS.LOL)

    Posted 13 years ago #
17. 

    Pookie
    Member

    I agree with young Chip about Vista. Vista rules! Now about old people...

    Posted 13 years ago #
18. 

    Lester (Chip)
    English Mod

    lol I wasn't trying to put down old people. I was just saying many seem to be happy with what they have and don't care about how crappy it is. My grandmom's computer has XP and I hate it but it doesn't bother her one bit. Many people put down Vista but I find it to be no trouble at all. And if I had the extra money I would upgrade to 7 without hesitation!

    Posted 13 years ago #
19. 

    Robert
    StrayCat

    Well...7 is what Vista should've been... still has some crappy sides too,but then SP1 is on the way.
    The Home edition is OK,but if I ever have some money to burn... I'd go for 7Ultimate.

    Posted 13 years ago #
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    sparky
    Member

    Apparently enough people think that Windows 7 has got something right though. One site that I look at for statistics says that Windows 7 has almost caught up with Vista already.

    http://marketshare.hitslink.com/os-market-share.aspx?qprid=11

    I have it and I like it quite a bit. I always liked XP and never did care for Vista myself. The only disclaimer is that I am not much of a computer techie and my opinions on computer related things are usually suspect at best. ;)

    Posted 13 years ago #

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