WinkyDaRabidElf
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Does that mean it could end like this?Many feel Microsoft is going to regret not including IE9 for XP in the long run.
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Does that mean it could end like this?Many feel Microsoft is going to regret not including IE9 for XP in the long run.
Pulling the plug comes in the form of new standards that aren't supported on the older OS. Direct X 11, Direct2D, hardware rendering support in the browser, and so on. You can't just "pull the plug", that's impossible. It will take a few years to slowly be phased out.
yep, I meant individual users to just let xp die. after all these years there should be plenty of reasons to switch. xp doesn't even support dx10 and hard drives with 4k sectors won't be properly formatted natively etc.
No, no it's not. I don't have a lot of experience with Win7, but Vista is even more worthless than ME was.
Why the hell is it time to move away from XP? I mean, I haven't used XP in 3 years, and that's because of XP 64-bit sucks balls. If you got more then 3 gigs of ram, it's worth to upgrade. Otherwise, fuck it.
There's nothing great about Vista/7. Does it come with awesome CD/DVD burning software? No. Does it come with an awesome Office suite? No. Even the famous Media Center sucks, because its hampered with too much DRM, that prevents you from doing anything cool with it. MediaPortal is better then that.
Does Windows Media Player make it worth the upgrade. Hell no, and that's because VLC and MPC is way better. Does IE make it worth to upgrade? Still no, cause anyone worth a damn is going to install FF or Chrome.
Someone hasnt tried 7, and it shows.
Someone hasnt tried 7, and it shows.
Riiiigggghhhhtttttt......
Vista (once SP1 was released) was sooooo much better than XP could ever hope to be.
Some stuff needed to be reconfigured, such as UAC, but other than that, it is a pretty decent OS.
However, 7 is even better.
My customers still have a lot of 3rd party software that the Devs refuse to make compaitble with Visa or 7, pisses me off
What is the big deal about IE9? I tried it, the beta release of course, and was not impressed. I went back to IE8, flexability, compatibility and appearance. I did not see that big speed increase in 9 when you turn everything back on. I like my stuff on the left not fixed on the right and the flexible menu bars of 8. XP users you are not missing anything, stay with 8.
And, if you install 9 you will never get it off. Restore Point does not get the job done. I had to resort to a HD backup from an Acronis.
If you have a multimedia key the "favirotes" button will make the list magically appear on the left. You can make all the status and command bars whatever reappear on 9 too so it looks virtually identical. Apart from the search bar which is combined with the adress bar.
Also windows 2000 users, your not missing anything with XP. Stuay in 2000 the world was better then
And, if you install 9 you will never get it off. Restore Point does not get the job done. I had to resort to a HD backup from an Acronis.
Missing your 56k and your 13" screens eh? The world was better in the 1700's, go get a horse
havent touched IE since version 6 and its people who dont upgrade that hurt the pc industry by holding onto there old P 4's. My average customer pc i work on is a P4 3.0 ghz 512 mb of ram 128 video and a 120 gig hdd...
I had cable on win98 with a 20" CRT and a Rage 128. I ran a quake 3 server off it for several years off and on, but it sucked when I didnt do it dedicated, especially with linux distros downloading.
1700s sucked with the Nepoleonic wars and slavery, but there was pirates!
But you missed the sarchasm so ill try harder
windows 2000 users, your not missing anything with XP. Stay in 2000 the world was better then
Shows how little experience you have with OS's. Windows XP 64-bit sucks because it lack drivers and support. Vista and 7 have that support, now. When Vista was first released it didn't have good hardware support.Let me rephrase, since it sounds like you have more than 3GB of RAM you are either on Vista or 7.
If tons of other [H]ers are jumping off a bridge, will I?Either you're really having some "good ol days" XP nostalgia, or you havent done a proper comparison. Win7 is more stable, much smoother, and far more polished than XP. Tons of other [H]'ers will agree.
Have you looked at Valve's hardware survey? There's a lot of people that still use DirectX 9 video cards, and just as many use Windows XP. Either way, DirectX 9 is not going anywhere for a long time.Oh yeah, DirectX 10 and 11, but its not like this is a gamer/enthusiast oriented site, right?
Shows how little experience you have with OS's. Windows XP 64-bit sucks because it lack drivers and support. Vista and 7 have that support, now. When Vista was first released it didn't have good hardware support.
Even though I'm planning on another box in the future so I can run 7 x64, I don't care about IE9 not being for XP. I use Opera nearly exclusively. It works perfectly fine on XP.
IE is used solely for Patch Tuesday for me.
The cons of Windows 7 alone outweigh the pros and cons of Windows XP for me. I have personally setup Windows 7 on three machines (one of them a server and two of them for my family's laptops). Windows 7 isn't so bad on the basic, front-end'ish functionality, but boy.. there are so many things just WRONG in Windows 7.
Uh, sure... if you don't know what you're doing.For example, file sharing over a Home network is a nightmare.
Why?The control panel is a nightmare too:
Like what?I like the taskbar functionality. That's good. I like some other things too. But doing things in Windows 7 that is more than just the upper/front-end basic functionality and features can be a living nightmare.
Could someone please enumerate the benefits of Win7 vs XP ?
I tried Vista and saw zero benefit. Maybe some eye candy, but it is all about the apps.
So why bother with Win7?