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04-25-2008, 01:13 AM
|  | He punched out all my blood! | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Winston-Salem
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 : 42 nd | | | Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company could re-evaluate its plans to phase out Windows XP by June 30, if customers demand that it stick around. So far, they have not. "XP will hit an end-of-life. We have announced one. If customer feedback varies, we can always wake up smarter, but right now, we have a plan for end-of-life for new XP shipments," Ballmer said during a Thursday news conference in Belgium, according to Reuters.
Big-name computer makers are still scheduled to have to stop selling models with Windows XP installed by the end of June. Mainstream technical support will continue to be available for Windows XP through April 2009, and more limited support will continue through April 2014.
| Ballmer: You want XP, we'll keep XP | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
Windows XP, the little OS that could.
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04-25-2008, 02:18 AM
|  | sR Resident Gun Nut | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: College Station, TX
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| | | Vista the OS that hurts your pocket book, your head, and your performance.
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04-25-2008, 02:42 AM
|  | oPg -> sR-SonicSpeed | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oregon
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Originally Posted by Bojingles  | I can see two things wrong with this statement. 1. Vista is the same price as XP (OEM). 2. Turning off UAC = no headaches. Performance, I'll grant you that (5-10%)
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04-25-2008, 02:50 AM
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| | | I bought XP for $50 Vista gives me headaches cause I can't find anything and the annoying (accept deny) crap and because it's slow, performance on my parents computer is terrible and they have 2GB ram vs my 1GB and a much faster processor. Yet... it's terribly slow.
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04-25-2008, 02:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Bojingles | That's why when I ran all the betas the first thing I would do would disable UAC (allow/deny). I actually didn't have that much of a problem with many of the builds, even on a Sempron 2600+ with 512MB of RAM. I'm getting a copy of Vista Business next week so I'll see how its pro/regressed. SP1 should help though.
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04-25-2008, 03:49 AM
|  | Hollow Ichigo | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: England/Barbados/Japan
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| | | I'll stick with XP like I stuck with Windows 98, until I can't run Firefox on it anymore. Then I know it's time to get rid of it lol
// I can still run Firefox on my Windows 98 machine
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04-25-2008, 09:07 AM
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| | | M$ has gone on record saying they made Vista annoying on purpose (UAC, etc). Now they're scratching their heads wondering about adoption backlash?
oooookay
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04-25-2008, 09:23 AM
|  | om mani padme hum | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: All over Canada
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04-25-2008, 10:53 AM
| | He punched out all my blood! | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Winston-Salem
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Originally Posted by VincentVega
oooookay
| They made UAC annoying to annoy software developers into coding software that doesn't need elevated administrator access to work. In theory it's a good idea, but the end user see's it more than anyone and suffers the price.
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04-25-2008, 11:07 AM
|  | ALTMAN BE PRAISED | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| | | I like OSX's approach to security.
Anything that gets installed to "system" folders requires you to enter your own password. Anything you do for yourself doesn't require any password and there's no popup. The only popup you get is if you download something online. When you go to run it, it will pop up a box saying when and where it was downloaded from, and I believe it only does this for certain files. This is how it works for an admin account. I never created a regular user account, but I imagine that you won't be able to install system files. Either way, if you fuck something up, it's for your user only and not the entire system. It's also not annoying at all, while still providing security.
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