A somber celebration for Windows XPs 10th birthday

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This week marks 10 years since Windows XP was first released, but not everyone is reeling with excitement.
For Microsoft, it marks a series of failed attempts to get customers to upgrade to a newer operating system. The company has been pressured to extend previous deadlines as to when it promised to end support for the OS.

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There are a few factors as to why so many have been hesitant to leave their beloved XP, but none is more of a black eye for Microsoft than the fact that its successor, Windows Vista, was by all accounts a huge flop.


People did not like the look and feel of Vista, leading to an utter lack of sales and making users even more comfortable with just holding onto XP.
Of course, XP was revolutionary when it first came out and for many corporations, it was the first time they bought mass licenses of an operating system, something that is expensive to upgrade. Budget-conscious enterprise customers see little value in moving to a new operating system.


In a blog post on the Windows Team Blog, Microsoft 'celebrated' the landmark anniversary by convincing people they need to get rid of it.
The post reads, in part, "Think about phones
 
One of the biggest reasons for not upgrading is that for the vast majority it doesn't just mean an operating system upgrade, it means a whole computer upgrade. When I look at upgrading I have to examine the added functionality that the new OS or equipment will give me, and right now I don't see anything. About the only hardware I would have to upgrade is adding memory. I work on (repair) W7 machines and even after working with it I just can't seem to get the itch.
 
I have two machines right now, one with xp and one with 7, if I could get all the xp drivers for my win 7 machine I think I would downgrade it to xp. Windows 7 is okay but I think that it is unnecessarily bloated and resource hunger, they do this to keep you buying new hardware. Linux runs much better and faster, just wish it was easier to operate and more compatible, I have it on as a duo boot but my girlfriend has a hard time with it.
 
I agree windows 7 still has some bloatware from Vista that we never had with XP. I did upgrade to Win 7, but still also use Linux mint that blows away Win 7 for speed!
Now if Win 7 is so good why the need for the upcoming Windows 8?
 
On the 1.5T hard drive in my computer, I have a DOS partition, one for Win XP, one for Win7, and 6 different Linux distributions. Neither one of the Windows OS know about anything else on the hard drive. They think they are the only one on the hard drive. But each and every Linux distribution sees everything and can read and write to any and everything else on the hard drive. I was telling a co-worker the other day that if the cops ever confiscate my computer, I would be in jail for a long, long time. I don't have anything on here to incriminate me, but it would take them a long time to get past all my security just to see what I have on my computer. Like how many people do you know that have more than a couple OS on their computer? With my proxy server, I'm either in Davenport, or outside Springfield, Illinois or near Hutchison, Kansas or like yesterday someplace in Massachusetts. I just like to toy with technology.


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