Saying Goodbye To XP Shouldn't Be This Hard
Wave goodbye to Windows XP. The nearly seven year old operating system will finally be closing its doors now that Microsoft has announced it will stop selling the operating system.
However, before you start having an aneurysm, there are a few key exceptions to allow those who insist on buying new PCs with XP past the deadline. Versions of XP will still be on sale at smaller PC shops until the end of January and Microsoft says it will continue to produce a version of XP exclusively for low-end laptops like the Asus Eee PC. Dell and other PC manufacturers will also allow you to revert to XP when you buy high-end Vista systems.
Don't Hold onto the XP Past
Of course, you could always sign a petition, but really, what good will that do? The demise of XP is long overdue. Despite what the Windows faithful may think, there are plenty of other worthy OS options out there. Apple's OS X has proved itself as a worthy contender and Linux will always be a capable choice. And let's not forget about Vista itself.
Like that old and ratty teddy bear, it's time to let go of XP and move on. There are greener pastures out there. One pasture goes by the name Vista. It's just the haze of years of bad publicity has made it hard to see.
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Meh. I'm not missing XP. It was a reliable workhorse for many years. But MS had little choice but to introduce a new OS. Bad media hype was what made Vista seem so bad.
I agree with Zeth006 about MS having no choice but to introduce a new OS. Times change, technologies change thus OS must change to keep pace.
I don't agree about Vista. It wasn't bad media hype that made Vista seem so bad; Vista and bad MS Marketing made Vista seem bad. I have MS Office 2007 and Vista on a laptop with 2GBs of RAM. Runs like crap and I switched back to XP where Office 2007 runs better.
It's sad that MS wants consumers to spend lots of money on hardware just to run an OS. And how many "versions" and price levels of Vista are there to choose from?
I bought a laptop with Vista pre-loaded. Inspite of my literal grovelling, the vendor just would not give me a laptop with XP. That's too bad. I stuck to Vista. but the one good thing I did was that I do not use MS-OFFICE at all! Instead I use OpenOffice.org - which is equally good and many many times faster to use.