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Microsoft backtracks, extends XP availability to 2011 | |
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| Time: 06:47 EST/11:47 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Just hours after a noted research analyst criticized Microsoft's plans to limit sales of Windows XP PCs, the company said it would extend the aged operating system's lifespan in the post-Windows 7 world to as late as April 2011.
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| #1 By 17855 (98.156.78.242) at 6/21/2009 8:32:21 AM |
| Incredible an Operating System sold for almost 10 years, 10/25/2001 - 4/2011. |
| #2 By 54556 (68.35.10.96) at 6/21/2009 9:04:08 AM |
| Why is that? I've got applications that have been running twice that long, and are still running. |
| #3 By 229955 (66.169.237.85) at 6/21/2009 10:21:14 AM |
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since microsoft said that they would doscontinue major patches XP is getting bigger and slower. Now we extend sales two more years. these systems will be just as bad as the 98 machines at end of life. Bad crashing patches with hardly and testing by microsoft. or unpatched system full of viruses and spyware.
No win situation so users will have to go to windows 7. |
| #4 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at 6/21/2009 3:01:18 PM |
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#3 Security patches will be offerred until Aug 2014.
Five more years of security patches. Why would the lack of "major patches" mean XP will get "bigger and slower". That doesn't make sense? No major patches means it won't get bigger. And why would it get slower? |
| #5 By 89249 (64.207.240.90) at 6/22/2009 11:09:47 AM |
| Sad people are still putting that OS on new computers. lolfud |
| #6 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at 6/22/2009 2:42:12 PM |
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XP is really only 5 years old now. XP SP2 RTM'd in August 2004 and it could easily been sold as XP SE or XP R2. Instead Microsoft gave it away to those of us with XP.
Whats really sad is that the the vast majority of people would prefer XP over a Linux released today. (Did I say sad ... ha ha ha ... just kidding). |
| #7 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/22/2009 3:05:40 PM |
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#4: And why would it get slower?
Every Windows user has been wondering this for years now. Nobody knows, but slower it gets -- all by itself. #6: XP is really only 5 years old now. Hey, anything's possible in your own mind. XP SP2 RTM'd in August 2004 and it could easily been sold as XP SE or XP R2. Instead Microsoft gave it away to those of us with XP. MS ships something half-assed, then they fix it a few years later, and you're spinning it like it was an act of charity for MS to bless us with this service pack? And for free, too? I normally expect companies to stand behind their products. You're treating it like it was MS doing us all a favour. It's like getting a McBurger with a loogie in it. When you complain to the manager, he wipes the loogie off and then hands you back the same burger and you thank him for the effort? Blech. |
| #8 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at 6/22/2009 5:03:11 PM |
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#7 "half-assed"?
So todays Linux can't compete with an 8 year old "half-assed" OS? What a bunch of losers they and you are. |
| #9 By 28801 (71.58.225.185) at 6/22/2009 8:17:47 PM |
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#8: That's not entirely correct. In 2008 Linux surpassed Windows 2000 usage.
Oh wait, that would be a 9 year old OS. |
| #10 By 92283 (24.64.223.204) at 6/22/2009 9:37:55 PM |
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#9 Windows 2000 is back out in front 1.06% to .99%
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10 This post was edited by NotParkerToo on Monday, June 22, 2009 at 21:39. |
| #11 By 92283 (24.64.223.204) at 6/22/2009 9:38:10 PM |
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#9 iPhone will probably pass Linux within a year.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpcustom=iPhone This post was edited by NotParkerToo on Monday, June 22, 2009 at 21:40. |
| #12 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/23/2009 9:59:41 AM |
| That must be why MS spends so much time fighting and FUDding Linux, because nobody uses it and it isn't going anywhere. |
| #13 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at 6/23/2009 11:35:56 AM |
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#12 I believe they have been focussed on Apple for the last year or two exactly "because nobody uses Linux and it isn't going anywhere".
Spot on. |
| #14 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/23/2009 12:38:59 PM |
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#13: You believe??? Well, that's money in the bank then, isn't it?
MS can't fight Linux through silly, forgettable TV commercials. Instead it has to fund "objective" analysts to slag Linux, or outright bribery like in the Nigeria case. Or if that doesn't work, just use your monopoly to pressure your serfs, I mean partners, such as what happened a few weeks ago with the CEO of Asus. He shows off an Android-powered netbook one day and then apologizes the next day, no doubt after getting a late-night phone call from Ballmer with the threat of flying chairs. The Simpsons segment with Bill Gates buying out Homer by destroying the living room was hilarious, yet prescient. |
| #15 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at 6/23/2009 1:32:44 PM |
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#14 You live in a fantasy world. No one cares about Linux anymore. Microsoft is spending its money on fighting Apple and Google.
Linux ... yawn. Ancient news. |
| #16 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/23/2009 2:07:58 PM |
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#15: You live in a fantasy world.
I can assure you that I certainly don't. If I did, you would not exist. No one cares about Linux anymore. Your parents and your six cats don't count. Linux ... yawn. Yeah, I know things can seem boring when they just work. Far more interesting times when the Wow Starts Now like with Vista. 2 years later, people are still shaking their heads and saying "Wow, I can't believe I paid that much to upgrade to a slower platform that doesn't offer anything compelling to the average consumer over XP." Wow is right. |
| #17 By 92283 (70.67.3.196) at 6/23/2009 2:47:20 PM |
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#16 Linux is boring because it is an OS for whiners who were too cheap to pay for Unix. That attitude poisons everything they touch.
pro-Linux = hate. They hate everything and everyone who won't kiss their ass. |
| #18 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 6/23/2009 3:48:22 PM |
| #17: All the companies & governments around the world that use Linux, you're telling me they're all whiney haters? Is that really the best you can do? |
| #19 By 23275 (24.196.4.141) at 6/23/2009 6:22:13 PM |
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#1, An OS that will live on for another 10 in XP Mode under Windows 7 and enterprise versions of virtualization. Pretty wild, but still far short of applictions written within government/related agencies that have been online for decades. They've been written, re-written, modified and proofed over and over and run as solid as the most dense rock one may imagine. Control programs, and the operating systems (virtualized, too) that support them.
It's pretty cool when you think about it. Who'd have thought a consumer OS would be so resilient... but wait, OS X is very similar... incremental upgrades over a very long time, on top of a base subject to a similar evolution. I think the more interesting and daring moves centered around Vista and its advance toward 7 and now 8. I think is really going to set people on their heels and provide for buckets of Wow! (RDC/Teredo fully leveraged in multiple clouds). Five years from now we'll be looking back and laughing at ourselves. |
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