Microsoft Cancels Security Essentials for Windows XP

FLECOM said:
I actually had one client that would restart her computer every time she wanted to use a different program that one made me giggle a bit...
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If that's what comes naturally to a user, they have absolutely failed on UI design.
 
stinger608 said:
NASCAR Sim Racing is one. Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed is another.
Hell, Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed would barely run on XP as it was made back in the Windows 98 days. That is just an example of a couple more games that WILL NOT run on Windows 7 or 8.
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I have NFS Porsche Unleashed installed on a Windows 7 machine right now... works fine.

Note that Porsche Unleashed is pretty poorly written. It attempts to actively save things its own game directory (inside of the Program Files folder, which is owned by system, which it doesn't have permission to write to).

Fixing a lot of older titles is as simple as making a C:\Games\ directory and installing them there instead of inside the Program Files folder. They'll have permission to write to their own game folder (which, again, is bad design and 100% discouraged by Microsoft). This wasn't an issue on XP for most users, because most users ran as administrators (and all programs ran with admin privs).

stinger608 said:
And that damn "Compatibility" mode crap doesn't work at all. If they could get that to actually work XP wouldn't be needed.
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Worked for plenty of applications for me... you sure you know what those options actually do?

stinger608 said:
I guess for those of us that wish to run the very old games or old software are stuck with either running XP on a VM or load it on an older system and keep it off line.
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Well, yes, ideally. VMWare does a fairly decent job of accelerating 3D graphics now days, and this also allows you to keep those poorly written applications sandboxed from the host.
 
Good news, everyone now gets three extra months to switch their old XP computers to Linux.
 
No it doesn't, I agree, Windows 8 Sucks.

In fact, I'll amend that with "big hairy nasty balls".
 
I wonder how committed they are to the product in general. There are articles, quoting a Microsoft source, that MSE is a baseline product and not meant to be the best. It must not make them money, so it isn't worth improving. :(
 
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