R.I.P. Windows XP 2001-2008 through 2014

A long, lingering, slow demise.

The Story

 

Great report.

As with anything, people resist changes, but this time is a greater resistance because Vista is such big jump from XP.

 

I will be sticking to XP....There are still 6 years left..

 

Before XP came windows was a mess.I still remembering the Windows ME which had to be reinstalled every week.

 

Nothing wrong with keeping it if it works, but will you be ready to transition for the OS's in 2014? Or you will ask, what is a GPS?

 

GPS..?! whats the need for a GPS in a notebook..?!

 

So Homeland Security can more easily track you, of course.

 

Read this letter from Microsoft's senior VP.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/letter.html

 

That's what Wi-Fi's for. It's actual range is on the order of 10 miles.

 

Yeah XP will be around for awhile still.

When does Microsoft plan on releasing the next OS?

 

Windows 7 target date is targeted for release 2010. We shall see.

 

With all due respect, more like R.I.P. Microsoft as an OS provider. Unless Win7 is a miracle, by 2010 (or, more likely, 2011) linux variants will be even more commercially-ready than now, and since the jump from XP to Win7 is likely to be just as disruptive as the jump from XP to whatever linux variant(s) is/are top of the heap in 2010/2011, those businesses that choose not to switch from XP to _Vista now are going to be sorely tempted, I think, to be done with the repetitive MS mishaps, and many will simply opt out and switch to a linux-based system, permanently.

 

I really don't agree with you and I don't see this happening at all. In no way have I seen any of the businesses that I've worked for during my last 4 work terms opting to switch over to Linux.

 

It's a good joke, that's never going to happen. People use more software in Windows than any other OS.

 

And with all due respect, let's not turn this into YET ANOTHER "Microsoft -VS- The world" topic.

 

Dearly beloved we have gathered here today to pay our respects and say our goodbys to .....Windows XP. Surely not the best but one of them and loved by many die hard users. Remember there is life after XP and even though XP is not with us it wil emain in our new os'. From the code it came and to the code it must return. So let us take a moment of silence so we may mourn our discontinued but susupported OS.

Hows that for a eulogy?

 

i'm not changing from XP till the next OS comes out.

 

Im still considering using one of my old Windows XP x64 professional editions on my current computer. I keep a few of these around just in case....

 

I cant believe they are going to support XP until 2014... thats nuts. I would have trash canned the entire OS the 30th of june like they were going to.

Vista is a fine OS and truth be told had ALOT less problems than XP during its start up... remember the BSOD incident with Bill Gates. He couldnt even run XP.

Its the same with every one of Microsofts OS's. They all suck in the beginning but eventually get better and people start supporting them and when the time to change comes half of everyone starts complaining (again mind you) about how their OS (insert which ever version is becoming outdated) is so superior to the new one and theres no reason to EVAR update.

As Tech grows i want my OS to grow with it. By OS standards Vista is a huge slumbering beast... but as the memory ceiling is being reached and as storage capacity is almost "normal" in the 1TB level then thats what i want.

When we all start using 128GB of Ram and 20 TB hard drive i want an OS to be 400+gigs and do everything i want except start making terminators and killing us all.

still... i cant believe they are keeping up support until 2014... if thats the norm then they would have still been updating windows 98 until 2004 and win2k until 2006. Wonder why they are caving for XP

 

Is XP after teh SP3 is a very stable OS!

Vista Business User Here

 

They won't for the general populace; only for customers willing to pay for extended contracts. General Support goes away April 14, 2009, as shown here.

 

still just as stable as before... i have not seen a BSOD since trying to install XP on a machine that needed a BIOS update.. IMO, XP Pro is the best thing to come out of redmond since dos 6.22

the reason MS is caving on KILLING XP is because of all the MINI-LAPTOPS like the Eee-PC that can't run VISTA due to it's HUGE BLOATED size and the processor and ram requirements of it... VISTA cannot yet be expected to run on these ultra-portables due to those reasons... and MS didn't want to loose out on that entire market....(effectively pushing a whole generation toward thier competition)

do you understand now why they will support it till 2014... BTW you can't or soon won't be able to buy a RETAIL version of XP... and when Win7 comes out i look for MS to limit support to those ultra-portables and business customers....

just that's just my take on the situation

bigO

 

AS long as they're stupid people around and marketting gimmicks that force the puters with an OS or another, MS will be around.

Hear hear.

XP SP3 is a bliss,for everything.

 

I have had no problems with Vista and actually prefer it, but I'm still going to miss XP once it's completely phased out. I'm always going to keep a copy, but I just don't know how often I'm going to be using it. I rarely log into it now.

 

That's why MS is smart. And no company in the near future can do this.

 

A little more detail is in order, however. As of 4/14/2009 so-called "Mainstream Support" for XP goes away - that means no more getting the latest bells and whistles for free. However, what continues - for everyone - until 2014 is so-called "Extended Support" which includes, most importantly, security support, as stated by MS on the first chart on this webpage.

The bells and whistles glommed onto _Vista are too much for my stomach, so I seriously doubt if there would have been any such additions to XP after 4/14/2009 that I'd seriously care about. What matters to me is security support, and that I - and everyone else, both business and home users - until 2014. Thus, for what matters, MS will support XP until 2014.

 

I have some Windows 2.1 floppies around here you could hold onto for no good reason, too, if you want

 

However, how that is implemented remains to be seen. There certainly will be no new function implemented in XP to support security as it evolves over this time period. This means that "support" could be as simple as blocking new functionality.

Otherwise, the telecommunications protocol BTAM, from the 1960's would now support HTTP, right? NOT!