Windows XP Gets Another Extension

ShagnWagn said:
Vista and Vista SP2 (aka Win7) have crashed waaaay more than XP ever did on me. Overall, I am still happy with them, but wish they had polished Vista before release. I'm hoping Win7 will be stable and reliable by the time it goes retail, but I have my doubts and thinking it won't be until Vista SP3 (Windows 8) that most people can say it's rock solid. :p

I still have yet to hear a single person give one valid reason why people should be forced from purchasing XP with a new computer.
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TROLL.

Windows 7 is not Vista SP2 nor will 8 be SP3 of Vista.

Vista SP 2 is Vista SP2.

If either Vista or windows 7 is crashing on you that much then you just have something wrong with your machine and should probably fix that.

As for wanting a valid reason for people to move away from XP. However about support for newer software? Companies will not keep making software for older OSs forever. Most programs dropped support for windows 2000 years ago. Office 2007 only supported XP and Vista. So if you wanted to use that you had to upgrade to at least XP. I've seen a number of comerical antivirus programs that dropped support for anything less than XP once Vista came out. I've seen many other programs that require at least XP or better. Not all programs can just run on every single OS and have to be coded slightly different for each OS or are designed to use features that not supported in all OSs. My guess is that soon you will see the same start happening with XP. Soon programs will only be for Vista and Windows 7 with XP starting to get left out more and more. Why should somebody buy a brand new machine with windows xp if in another two years they might start having trouble getting software for it? At that point they will be pissed that their two year old machine is already outdated they have to ugprade mainly because many probably won't know that it was outdated when they bought it. While Microsoft can keep pushing back dates and all that good stuff they just can't keep everyone else to keep developing software that is supported on it. Hardware drivers also fall into this group. Most newer hardware doesnt' have drivers for windows 2000 either, soon it will be XPs turn to start being left out. Companies aren't going to want to develope drivers for XP, Vista and windows 7 for too long. Especially if Microsoft gets back on track of a new OS every 3 years. As that will mean that no sooner does 7 come out that they will have to start making drivers for xp, vista, 7 and 8 (whatever its name might be). For most average people getting a new computer with Vista they aren't going to have any problems. At worse, a few might have to buy one or two newer version of some software they are running, but it won't be that major for most people. Thus they might as well be given the OS that is going to last them the longest.

If you already have XP and are using it then sure there isn't any real reason that you should stop using it at once, there are benifits from going to Vista but nothing that forces you to stop using XP right way. Howeve when getting a new machine from an OEM, there is almost no reason for most people NOT to get Vista.

Although you will probably disagree with me in full as you appear to be nothing but a troll, but that is fine.
 
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