Windows XP Home retirement postponed |
Windows Vista isn’t well liked by many computer users. The operating system has a reputation for consuming more resources than Windows XP did. The need for more resources to run Vista than many netbook computers offer led Microsoft to continue offering Windows XP alongside Vista.
Microsoft has announced today that it is extending the previous deadline for computer makers to move away from Windows XP that was set to retire on January 31, 2009. Microsoft has previously extended this deadline as well.
Microsoft says that distributors have until December 31 to submit XP forecasts for purchase. The distributors can take delivery on these forecast sales of Windows XP until May 30, 2009. This should mean that Windows XP is available until very close to the Windows 7 launch rumored to be in mid-2009.
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Yeah, so? Big surprise. Just got new computers at work (Dells) and specifically paid extra to have them “downgraded” (ha ha ha!) with XP on them.
Doesn’t much matter to me. I blissfully use only OS/X Macs at home. For whatever obnoxious things Apple does from time to time, they will NEVER equal the bungling of Microsoft. Why anyone uses Windows or Internet Explorer is utterly beyond me. Gaming? Forget the PC. Just buy a console system and be done with it. Then you’ll be free to buy a real computer.
windows vista reeeeaaaallllllyyyy suck.
Killing any version of XP would be the ultimate nail in the coffin. Remove Vista from store shelves, thats a good idea!!!
Nice sensationalism… but most users have never TRIED Vista and only hear this crap from people like you. On many new computers, vista has no problem and offers many more features. This is the same crap that happened when XP came out versus windows 98. Now people love windows 98.
You dont even get the point that the HOME edition sucks and that MS is keeping the XP professional support and sales open. This is mostly to do with licensing issues and not a huge resistance to Vista. Vista is a new platform and many businesses have custom applications that do not run on Vista. Businesses dont want to have to pay for renewal licensing for an OS they are not using yet.
But then I guess no report is actually done by an IT Admin in the business just a reporter.
Trash the vista. Just stick with XP and cut all unnecessary stuff that makes it run slower.
Windows Vista Sucks.. sorry Microsoft, I prefer Windows XP, really friendly user. Thanks.
To Steve Blamer:
Please leave XP alone. Leave us alone, too. We don’t want anything else! I hate it when I can’t buy a computer because it has a vista in it.
I used to think Vista sucked.
It does use more resources, but overall it is way better.
Use vista, (with all that security sht turned off), for a month then go back to XP and i guarantee you will die.
VISTA = Virus Inside, Switch To Apple
Just switch to a mac and about 99% of your complaints and problems will be solved automatically.
I use Windows XP and Vista every day and have had no trouble with either OS. I’ve learned to pay no attention to the Mac kids, whose only goal is to talk trash about Microsoft because they’ve heard it makes them cool to do it.
As a former journalist, I used Macs all day, every day. Frankly, it was a constant struggle to get the machines to work. It cured me of ever wanting a Mac. Apple is the worlds largest toy manufacturer, and while that works for kids and gamers, it doesn’t help for people who have to get things done.
VISTA IS A GOOD SYSTEM IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT
AND IF YOU HAVE PLENTY OF RAM
“On many new computers, vista has no problem and offers many more features.”
What are these new killer-app features, please do tell.
I have been using Vista for as long as it has been out. I have not had a single problem with it at all. I also just bought a dell with Vista on it and it has performed flawlessly. The person who paid extra to make sure they had XP on their computer was being silly… They Vista works fine on today’s computers. I am inclined to agree with Jabberwolf – people trash Vista without trying it. As I use Vista at home and XP at work, I am constantly annoyed by XP and all its creashes and pecularities. Give me Vista anyday!
I have run Vista on my quad core PC for a year now. Sadly, I’ve decided that my 5 year old single core 2.8 Ghz Windows XP PC runs much faster. Vista’s slow response when opening a browser, starting a program process, or even shutting down, leaves much to be desired. The strategic planned obsolescence of many of my previous licenses for Norton Antivirus, Windows Outlook Express, and many VPN packages is a bit aggravating. The discontinuation of drivers for most of my previous hardware such as my HP scanner or my HP color printer was the final kick in the teeth. Setting up multi-monitors on Vista involves some extra challenges and restrictions with drivers. I have decided that Microsoft has really blundered with the release of Windows Vista. For me, a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, I am dumping Vista and going back to the tried and true…Windows XP.
Vista is actually really good if you try it. SP1 is rock solid. It’s apparent some people who have posted here have never really seen it or used it. I find it funny that in today’s culture being popular and “trendy” wins out when using an operating system, go figure. I never actually read a well articulated post to why Vista is bad excpet how old machines can’t run it. Honestly, does one even have to answer why a newer OS built for the next generation of computers can’t run on older machines? Every OS has positives and negatives, but to not try Vista because the media told you it’s bad, it just plain dumb.
I have to go with jabberwolf on this one. A lot of people just don’t know what they are talking about. Vista uses more resources because it has more going on, but just like XP you can make them stop (vLite anyone?). If you try to run it on a slower PC it will perform slowly. The people who complain are the ones that usually the ones can’t afford to upgrade or have no idea what is going on.
Second, MACs are good if you like paying more for less. Anything a MAC can do a PC can do too, but for less. Also, Vista 64 is running extremely smooth and the 64 bit is more secure. In case anyone is going to use the “virus” argument, you better do your research. Mac OS/X was the first to fall in the last HackerCon. They have just as many updates and problems as Windows does. MACs are for the retards of the “computing” community. They are easy to understand, they are extremely high priced, and NO ONE GIVES A SHIT IF YOU CAN USE THE MAC. Use LINUX if you want some respect (Open Suse 11.1 is up and coming and Ubuntu is sets the standard.)
Third, you can build a $500 dollar PC that performs better than Cosoles, do more stuff, has cheaper games and free DL content, is better for FPSs and RTSs.
I kept my XP and have a Vista.. they both got there good and not so good points, but one thing is for sure the HP desktop setup with Vista sure is a lot smoother then my XP HP desktop, sorry you guys don’t like Vista, if I had to make a choice it would be HP with Vista. But I really want a Mac and soon I will but not for the internet.
I have both XP & Vista, Vista is not compatable with XP in a network environment….it’s crazy that microsoft would make them to not work with each other…..amazing.
Forget about consuming more resources.
I have 2 Windows Vista machines [just to monitor operating system stability]. 1 for almost a year and a half.
Both CRASH even running bundled applications and updates.
I run a business and CANNOT afford to have unreliable business machines. What business can afford to be a pioneer with arrows in the
back trying to DEBUG business applications and device drivers?
PLEASE FIX VISTA before retiring windows XP.
PLEASE !!!!!!
We know where “Tim Tech” stands. Norton AntiVirus!? Sure you are a tech… Sure. I can take a dump and certify the crap. Doesn’t mean it really know it’s shit.
Maybe you would know what services to shut down in Vista.
I recently did a stripped build of Vista 64 and it smokes my stripped XP Pro
“Vista is not compatable with XP in a network environment”
WTF are you people talking about. Vista can be a better server, with far more features, it self maps Network locations in home networks.
“Apple is the worlds largest toy manufacturer” statement is the most silly thing I have heard here. Vista, Xp, whatever, Apple’s computers work and they work better then anything you are likely buy anywhere else. They work better not because of hardware, but because of the operating system.
Having had the opportunity to use Vista on other people’s computers, I made the conscious decision that when the time comes to buy a new computer, I’d rather buy a Mac than deal with Windows Vista. In the meantime, I’m perfectly happy with Windows XP. Vista represents an minor upgrade from XP, not the major step forward that Microsoft portrays it as.
XP is just fine, most people don’t even know what an operating system does – The bloatware is the main problem with PC’s and Mac’s. Plus, the fact that most people just use computers for internet and word processing type stuff.
Yes most people dont like changes, whats new.
Xp works just fine but does have it’s limitations as well.
Vista works just as well as XP Pro. (it should have been called WindowsME 2.0)
I love how Mac Fanboys trash a system without evening knowing the true values that some of the Microsoft Products offer. Bunch of hypocrites and ignorants if you asked me.
You think just because switching to a Mac is gonna fix everyones situation with a one fit for all, get real. Mac’s has as much problems this year alone as with Microsoft’s applications. Oh mac fanboys omitted that part… how convenient.
Wake up… Both corps are imposters from the real genuises from IBM.
Mac OS X is so much better than any Windows program. I never have any problem with it. I have a Dell Windows XP at home and it works fine except its SOOO SLOW!!!
We just got it a couple years ago so I think I just have too much stuff on it. I should delete some but I use my Mac more so it doesn’t really matter.
“Maybe you would know what services to shut down in Vista.
I recently did a stripped build of Vista 64 and it smokes my stripped XP Pro”
That argument is moot.
The average user has no idea how to disable services. Judging XP vs. Vista after MODIFYING them is not a fair representation.
Take a computer, load it with XP, then take that SAME computer and load it with Vista (Any version) and you will INSTANTLY see that Vista is big time bloated. Don’t tell me Microsoft couldn’t make it run better than that. If you click on too may menus/windows Explorer craps out. That’s unacceptable.
I haven’t seen a single feature of Vista that makes me want to switch. As a software developer and former IT guru, I wan something fast, resource-efficient, and RELIABLE.
-Ray Phillips Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
My Mack OSX crashes and gets so buggy all the time – I really want to love my Mac, but it always lets me down….I’ll keep trying though.
Mac’s are still way better than anything else out there though!
how can you say switch to mac? and gaming on a pc is far far beyond anything of that which any console can do. yes vista is still problem ridden after sp1. get over it. or you can join jabberwolf and his tree hugging friends. enjoy the solitaire. oh, and try upgrading your mac for the next gen, oh wait! youll have to buy a whole new one which costs far more than allowed in your budget? get smart.
This doesn’t shock me at all…Vista never thrilled me, and my main system still uses XP. Hopefully, the new Windows 7 is a step up from the buggy, slow mess that was Vista (and no, I shouldn’t need 3-4 GB of RAM to run an operating system efficiently!)
Maybe I can eventually get XP on my OLPC XO netbook after all! ^_^
FWIW, I run Vista with 1GB RAM, and it’s very smooth / fast. All the bloatware and multiple user accounts on my XP desktop have made the XP slower, even though it has better hardware.
If Vista is slow for you, probably you have Geforce 6150 GFX. =P
“The average user has no idea how to disable services. Judging XP vs. Vista after MODIFYING them is not a fair representation.”
THEN then average user shouldn’t be commenting on Vista. NOR should the average user compare MAC OS to Vista. Mr. Ray Phillips Microsoft Certified Professional you should know that Vista is faster than XP at the core. Remove what you don’t need. DUH. Or is that too much for certified you?
Let’s face it. By the time the average user installs all the “adware” bars and startup programs to XP it is just as slow as Vista and since Vista handles memory, prefetching, and disk space better than XP they usually even out.
My Mac crashes all the time too! It’s so buggy,I keep using it though – it’s gotta be better than anything else out there though – that’s what everyone is telling me at least.
I love my Mac! PC’s suck ballz – they don’t come with all the cool stuff Mac’s have – like garage band!
Vista is as good of an operating system as XBOX 360 is a stable console. Both are buggy out of the door and their makers refuse to admit there should be a recall.
People who “use” vista (surfing the web and desktop publishing” don’t have the issues. It’s the folks that really want to use the computer that know that vista is garbage.
To anonymous…
Why do you think all personal computers suck balls? Mac = personal computer
“Maybe you would know what services to shut down in Vista.
I recently did a stripped build of Vista 64 and it smokes my stripped XP Pro”
That argument is moot.
The average user has no idea how to disable services. Judging XP vs. Vista after MODIFYING them is not a fair representation.
Take a computer, load it with XP, then take that SAME computer and load it with Vista (Any version) and you will INSTANTLY see that Vista is big time bloated. Don’t tell me Microsoft couldn’t make it run better than that. If you click on too may menus/windows Explorer craps out. That’s unacceptable.
I haven’t seen a single feature of Vista that makes me want to switch. As a software developer and former IT guru, I wan something fast, resource-efficient, and RELIABLE.
I had worked on Windows (since ver 3.11) and also on Apple’s OS (since v. 7). Unfortunately, most personal computers I had in my life were Win based and even though with time I learned to ignore most regular shit I was thrown at by Microsoft, I just couldn’t live with Vista. I should point out here that my expirience with Vista is far less then with any other operating system by Microsoft. Even so, I needed no more then 1 semester of suffering the amazingly unorganized features and furstrating system faliures. When I wasa a teenager, I really enjoyed exploring the features of any OS, however when you grow up and realize that your job is not beta tester of apps and games (unless it actually is) you need something that doesnt get in your way when you want to do stuff. After this 1 semester of unwillingly encountering Vista on daily basis, and then running back to XP to only remind myself how it needs constant help by the user in order for it to stay somewaht stable, I had the chance to work on my mother’s MacBook on a business with my father around Europe. After about 3 days of hating Apple for making OSX different from Win I got used to it and realized how happy not dealing with my old Win-related problems I had made me. The fact that new macs can run WinXP/Vista on them, helped me take the risk and invest in a MacBook Pro. This was probably my best investment in a PC I ever made. This is the best OS out there, and the shiny outfit of the hardware is just the cherry on the top of a really good cake. I almost never run Win even though I have it on Mac and to be honest, I hope I never will. Finally, Macs have their cons but they are just to few… You’ll have to try a Mac for a week or so to believe me.
P.S. Mac OSX – not for gamers and people adicted to problems
Alex, 23
Sofia, Bulgaria
trash xp leaving two REAL options
use vista (lol i like it)
or go free with linux
@Alex, 23
Sofia, bulgaria
//I had worked on Windows (since ver 3.11) //
So .. you were working with WfW 3.11 … when you were six years old? Hmmmm …