XP's 10th Birthday

Is today! Pretty incredible that you can still do almost anything you'd want to do on it a decade after it came out. Much more than you could on Windows 98 four years ago. Anyone else at NBR still using XP? I'm still using it on my only machine, and can't complain.

And while we're at it, anyone here still running 2000? Last time I asked about people using Vista or XP, I got called out by at least one person who was still using 2K, so now I know to cover my bases .

 

XP Home was the first consumer version of Windows that fully supported 32-bit computing, which meant no more BSOD for home users. It was a big deal 10 years ago.

That said, can we please move on and upgrade?

 

I've been thinking of picking up a used copy of 2000 somewhere, since I recently found official Intel and Realtek 2000 drivers for my thinkpad.

 

I am still using XP on my very very old laptop right now. But I think for new computers it is much better to use Win7 64bit because it can handle more than 4G ram especially nowadays the ram price is so low, every new computer's configuration starts up with 4G ram.

 

Things break in my immediate vicinity when on the odd occasion I have to use XP, was good in it's day, and serves a purpose for some now I guess, but lets just move on, move on by, nothing to see here any more!!

 

nothing else runs so well on my netbook. The idea of "You cant steal what you cant buy" should ring true for old operating systems.

 

I quit using it once Seven came out.

 

I have an old laptop for my son that will be using xp. good enough for him to fart around on.

 

XP's longevity is a sign that desktop/laptop computing has been a mature market for some time now - there's really not much an OS could offer nowadays without a shift in computing paradigms and user behavior (namely tablets, smartphones, and new input methods). As a result, there's not much incentive to upgrade.

As a result, I expect we'll see a large amount of computers still running Windows 7 during its 10th birthday.

 

Typing this on my original copy I purchased 10 years ago.

 

W7 is the worthy successor to WXP and it is much better in every way. I recommended everyone upgrade for productivity and security reasons.

 

I'm still using xp. I been using mac os , xp , vista & win 7. I prefer window 7.

 

There was nothing all that wrong with the stability of XP as it originally shipped. Compare an unpatched, original XP system against Windows Me running on the same hardware, and the stability of XP was much, much greater. Now, just don't take that unpatched, original XP system online.

Of course, as we all know, XP was spectacularly vulnerable to malware, and it wasn't until XP SP2 that Microsoft came to grips with security issues.

 

I use to have XP running on an old eMachines desktop we had in the family since 2005, but I wiped it a few months ago to put Ubuntu 10.10 on it. Definitely loved XP, but I grew tired of the dated interface (yes, it's subjective, but still).

I just like Windows in general. Had 98, XP, still have Vista on the family desktop, and my laptop runs on 7.

 

Compared to Windows ME, yes. Compared to all Windows releases, XP at launch was only about as stable as Vista before SP1.

Actually, when you take software issues into account, XP was probably worse than Vista since the chance of an XP driver working on Vista without causing a BSOD was higher than a Windows 95/98 only program running properly on XP. To this day, I still have not figured out how to play Descent: Freespace on XP/Vista/7 without having to rely on virtualization.