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Offline DavidR

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Re: The End Of XP Support
« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2009, 04:27:18 PM »
On April 14th Microsoft will pull the plug on free support for Windows XP (and Office 2003)
and the only option available to users will be paid support, which only applies to XP Professional.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=4025

Which is entirely different to the OS still receiving security updates and that is what I'm on about still getting security updates. A bonus on the XP Home front then as previously I believe this was a different date.

Perhaps with MS not wanting to miss out on the revenue from the rise in netbook sales being unable to run Vista they had to extend XP once again or lose out to Linux on netbook sales.

In all the years and different versions of MS OSes I have never had any free support, not that I needed it. 
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Re: The End Of XP Support
« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2009, 06:58:52 PM »
Perhaps with MS not wanting to miss out on the revenue from the rise in netbook sales being unable to run Vista they had to extend XP once again or lose out to Linux on netbook sales.
I think they will 'drop' the old notebook series and bet on Vista, but I could be wrong.
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Re: The End Of XP Support
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2009, 07:12:57 PM »
We aren't talking notebooks, but netbooks a 'small' difference (excuse the pun), Vista simply won't run unless crippled or like treacle, on the likes of an Asus EePC 901 or MSI Wind, etc. with an with a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor and 1GB of RAM.

That is why they were being offered for sale with either XP or Linux as the OS since Vista is a resource hog.
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Re: The End Of XP Support
« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2009, 08:36:58 PM »
When microsoft not support XP, I go to Ubuntu or Mandriva. 90% of programs that I use, works in linux. No problem.
Antivirus... ?  Maybe avast.   ;)

Never Windows Vista.

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Re: The End Of XP Support
« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2009, 09:56:47 PM »
'nother 5 years yet, Bob.

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Frank,
You're referring to security updates.
My post referred to MS free support for both XP and Office 2003.

Effective April 8th, you'll have to go elsewhere to get free support or, pay Microsoft for support.

This forum might be a good free alternative.  :)

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Re: The End Of XP Support
« Reply #20 on: March 28, 2009, 01:06:59 AM »
I use vista and its perfect for me i never got problem or something + Windows 7 is comming soon for the guy that didnt want vista ! Dont cry out yet :)

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Re: The End Of XP Support
« Reply #21 on: March 28, 2009, 01:27:26 AM »
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Like David, I have never called MS for support ... free nor paid. So, it's no bother to me as long as they keep giving SP's through 2014.

Well, I'm sure I'll build another computer before then and that's when I will change OS.    ;)


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Re: The End Of XP Support
« Reply #22 on: March 28, 2009, 07:57:16 AM »
Hi Vladimyr,

Fine that your Windows 95 is also blissfully unaware of what goes on in Redmond and vice versa. Read this, please, then comment:
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060608002958907 
(not a lot of people are fully aware of these facts and the consequences).

With Google and their plans for deep packet inspection to better serve their adSense model (what SEO firm will go for less eventually) and looking upon the user not longer as a human being but an end-consumer, we will loose a big part of our freedom. The not technically aware will be satisfied by the blinking pretext, and the technically aware are sent away with "a rubber bot", for the end-user it can make not much difference, because they do not have the knowledge to avert it.
To make an allegory to a well known statement of a historic figure: "When one person looses its privacy it is a disaster, when millions of people loose it, it is just statistics",

polonus

That groklaw article is one major reason why I still use windows 95 and in a virtual machine under linux.