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Started by Charizard★ September 21st, 2011 1:54 PM
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donavannj

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I'm gonna get a new coputer in a while but I'm gonna stick to XP. My sis got windows 7 and I don't get the heck of it lol.
XP is too old. Updates will stop being made for it in June 2014, well before any computer you buy now would be anywhere close to the end of its life. Give learning Windows 7 a shot. Once you figure it out, you'll be set for another 6 years or so, and wonder how the heck you could even use XP. It's actually a heck of a lot easier to find stuff with Windows 7 than it is on Windows XP.
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Shining Raichu

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Updates are still being made for XP? But it's so old! It's an act of charity that they're even allowing it to continue to 2014.
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Meganium

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And to believe that almost every company, business and school still use XP and haven't really bothered to upgrade to either Vista or 7. Hopefully before 2014 they'll be able to like.. upgrade and "stick to modern technology".
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XP is too old. Updates will stop being made for it in June 2014, well before any computer you buy now would be anywhere close to the end of its life. Give learning Windows 7 a shot. Once you figure it out, you'll be set for another 6 years or so, and wonder how the heck you could even use XP. It's actually a heck of a lot easier to find stuff with Windows 7 than it is on Windows XP.
That's still two and a half years away; clearly enough time to use XP and update when it actually does run out.

Ivysaur

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By then, you should be updating to Windows 8 anyway XD

But yeah, Vista was a clear mistake, 7 is the true upgrade to XP, and yet an incredibly large amount of people don't want to update because they are too used to teh "familiar" to get a nearly-identical and yet highly improved new OS.

But hey, lots of people still use Firefox 3.

Kano Shuuya

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It bugs me that school computers still use XP. Sure it's more stable than Vista, but IMO they could switch to 7, and should sometime soon. Heck, libraries still use Windows 98, at least some of the one's I've been to. I have to remember how to work it every time I go. xD;

& Vista really was a mistake.. too bad it was a pretty mistake, and everyone originally wanted it / got it, and realized the horrors.

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But hey, lots of people still use Firefox 3.
One thing that really annoys me is the browsers constantly upgrading to 'newer' versions. I think Chrome's at 17 now? And the stable version of FF is at 8 or something? Really screws with the add-on compatibility.
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Mr. X

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Most schools are still using XP because thats what the donated computers have. Unless the school is new, most of the time when they switch computers its because someone donated a lot of computers to them.

As for not wanting to switch, a lot of people jumped on the wagon and switched to Vista real quick. When Vista turned out to be a lemon (Not only that, but a rotten one) people switched back to XP and gained a fear of switching OS'es.

Legendary Silke

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It bugs me that school computers still use XP. Sure it's more stable than Vista, but IMO they could switch to 7, and should sometime soon. Heck, libraries still use Windows 98, at least some of the one's I've been to. I have to remember how to work it every time I go. xD;

& Vista really was a mistake.. too bad it was a pretty mistake, and everyone originally wanted it / got it, and realized the horrors.
Windows 98? That's really, like, ancient! XD The last time I used Windows 98 was about 2003 or 2004. Because the same computer could run Windows XP pretty fine, so... (It was a 1.4 GHz Pentium 4, 128 MB RAM, a 20 GB HDD and a GF2 for the GPU.)

I think Windows 7 is pretty much what Vista should have been, have it gone through the necessary optimizations. And prettier, to boot! XD

Firefox 3.6 will probably die in 2 standard (in FF terms, it's 12 weeks) release cycles once the extended support version for corporate environments is out.

Mr. X

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Windows 98? That's really, like, ancient! XD The last time I used Windows 98 was about 2003 or 2004. Because the same computer could run Windows XP pretty fine, so... (It was a 1.4 GHz Pentium 4, 128 MB RAM, a 20 GB HDD and a GF2 for the GPU.)
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Don't have it in a computer, but I've got a couple drives with some version of DOS. It's been a while since I've played around with them, but I think they are version 3.something.

Edit - I was using a computer with 98 until... late 02, early 03. I used Vista for a while (Can't remember how long.) in mid 07 before switching back to XP. Used XP until half a year ago.

Hikamaru

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I've currently got Windows 7 on mine.

Hey, have you seen my new avatar and signature? I'm finally doing a Christmas theme like most of my buddies.
Gone forever for personal reasons.
Visit my Tumblr page if you wish to contact me.

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Legendary Silke

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Right now I'm running Windows 7. (Yesterday I tested out the Developer Preview. Wasn't my cup of tea - I felt that I should have brought a Windows 7 tablet to test it out instead, but I don't have one.)

Hikari10 not Oshawott now? :O

I think I remember there being a commercially released and also DD game that somehow has the supported operating system list to be like this:
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7

...and then require 1 GB of RAM just to run. XD

Hikamaru

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Hikari10 not Oshawott now? :O
I'm going with a Christmas theme featuring my second fave 5th Gen Pokemon - Elgyem.

Don't worry, Oshie will be back after Christmas.

It's just that so many of my friends are doing Christmas themes so I've followed suit.
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Mine is a random cute anime girl I found on Pixiv... actually an older pic. I would have like to done Leaf, but it's hard to find fanart of her in Christmas attire... and even harder to find such fanarts where she's alone...

I've actually done Christmas themes every year since 2007 or 2008, barring last year since I was busy/lazy/unmotivated.

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alisaie

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I was able to stick a santa hat on Mithos and have an icon of Mithos in a santa hat (that someone else made) last year, but I don't think I'll be doing so this year because of what I'm using for a Mithos theme, aha.
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Windows 98? That's really, like, ancient! XD The last time I used Windows 98 was about 2003 or 2004. Because the same computer could run Windows XP pretty fine, so... (It was a 1.4 GHz Pentium 4, 128 MB RAM, a 20 GB HDD and a GF2 for the GPU.)

I think Windows 7 is pretty much what Vista should have been, have it gone through the necessary optimizations. And prettier, to boot! XD

Firefox 3.6 will probably die in 2 standard (in FF terms, it's 12 weeks) release cycles once the extended support version for corporate environments is out.
I used Windows '98 until about 2006 (which was when I subsequently got a new computer, with XP). I still use XP 'til this day, and will continue to use it until it expires.

Legendary Silke

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I used Windows '98 until about 2006 (which was when I subsequently got a new computer, with XP). I still use XP 'til this day, and will continue to use it until it expires.
When you think about it, Windows 98 also expired for real in 2006. 8 years can be a long time, huh?

Ah, Windows 98. Thinking about it made me think about what it could support. You know, it was a solid OS compared to that broken mess that was Windows ME.

And when you think about it, a lot of things we now take for granted... brand new back in its era! WDM drivers, USB support for real, DVD drives, etc... and it also got nifty things even when it's after the XP era has begun, like DirectX 9.0c, Windows Media Player 9, and stuff...

donavannj

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My current theme actually wasn't a holiday theme when it debuted in November 2009.

It bugs me that school computers still use XP. Sure it's more stable than Vista, but IMO they could switch to 7, and should sometime soon. Heck, libraries still use Windows 98, at least some of the one's I've been to. I have to remember how to work it every time I go. xD;

& Vista really was a mistake.. too bad it was a pretty mistake, and everyone originally wanted it / got it, and realized the horrors.
Vista actually is quite stable now, much moreso than XP (I've used Vista, 7, and XP on a daily basis over the last two years on similar hardware, and the XP computer was more prone to crashing). It's just that Microsoft botched its release by moving up the date on hardware manufacturers, who didn't have any drivers ready.



When you think about it, Windows 98 also expired for real in 2006. 8 years can be a long time, huh?

Ah, Windows 98. Thinking about it made me think about what it could support. You know, it was a solid OS compared to that broken mess that was Windows ME.

And when you think about it, a lot of things we now take for granted... brand new back in its era! WDM drivers, USB support for real, DVD drives, etc... and it also got nifty things even when it's after the XP era has begun, like DirectX 9.0c, Windows Media Player 9, and stuff...
Windows 98 itself was actually a horrible mess until they released Windows 98SE.
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The Music Department in my school uses Windows 7 professional, I think they've got the biggest budgets. xD; All the ICT suites we have use Windows XP. :3
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alisaie

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The Music Department in my school uses Windows 7 professional, I think they've got the biggest budgets. xD; All the ICT suites we have use Windows XP. :3
ahhh, i'm not in high school anymore, but my sister and my brother are in band, and thus i wish they had that budget. ;; their budget was cut this year, so they got basically nothing. it makes me sad, because when i was in the band we had a pretty good budget.

i think we have a desktop that's still running '97, but we never use it so i don't think that really matters, aha.