Comments on: A Call for Help: Save Windows XP!

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:50:24 +0000

i hope they bring Xp back..dislike vista!!!

By: Atreus

Atreus — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:12:46 +0000

Continued support is not the same as continuing to sell it

By: edjay

edjay — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:29:35 +0000

…….hmmm, what happened to the continuation of XP?

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:50:40 +0000

I tried it. The screensaver was like…umm…well maybe 2 frames per second? The fan ran non-stop, etc…the computer was less than 6 months old! And it’s not *that* low-end (ok yes, it’s cheap and I need to replace the optical drive (bad lens) and power jack (it got wiggled loose) and hard drive (moving parts…this is why solid states are getting to be popular, huh?) but then, laptops get jostled around a lot so parts go faster), at least in terms of specs. They say Vista works on 512MB, but it was struggling on 1GB! I’ve never run XP on here, so I can’t compare to that, but I have full-on desktop BLING running all the time (Vista doesn’t hold a candle to Compiz), and it never swaps (swapping = using a pagefile), and the fan’s not even spinning up right now. It rarely does. Generally, if my fan spins up, it’s because I’m transcoding about 15 files at once (which is pretty CPU-intensive).

By: Mackenzie

Mackenzie — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:10:27 +0000

FreeBSD is some pretty stiff competition.

By: djhayman

djhayman — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:54:00 +0000

You people are all seriously nuts…

Have any of you even *tried* Vista, or are you just giving it sh!t because all the popular kids are doing it?

I have to use XP at work, and it is seriously disgusting compared to Vista (which I happily run at home). I’ve been running Vista at home since I first got my hands on an early beta, and haven’t looked back.

And everybody that complains about performance… My computer is an old school single-core 3 GHz P4, and I only have 512 MB RAM, and it runs great! Yes, there is occasional HD thrashing when memory is low, but no more than XP.

By: edjay

edjay — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:27:19 +0000

Liondart

…..try Linux then in the meantime. It will cost you £000.000.

I could recommend Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) as I write, also, Fedora 7 or 8, KDE 3 or 4 and eLive Gem (e17) and many others are definitely worth a look.

I still think the best idea for XP is for it to be given to the public. Then we could see just what good could be made of it. Or…..?

By: Liondart

Liondart — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:26:03 +0000

Vista is the main reason I want to switch to Mac.

XP is still bearable.

By: edjay

edjay — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:45:36 +0000

What about a petition asking M$ to give XP to the people to maintain and continue to develop for all eternity? After all, Linux could do with a bit of competition.

By: Ami

Ami — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:26:27 +0000

Obviously, Microsoft does not use their own products, or they would not be forcing Vista on us.

This very well could be the downfall of Microsoft.

Okay not really, but it should be! Then maybe they’d realize their mistake.

Bootleg XP, anyone?

By: edjay

edjay — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:04:41 +0000

I find the performance of XP quite ok……I just wish someone would put in some nice “chooseable” window shadows. A bit late to write to Bill about it now. Have the testers anything to say about such lush things?

By: Kiltak

Kiltak — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 03:54:43 +0000

Apparently, the new SP3 will impromove XP’s performance by 10 to 15%… that’s what I heard from a few beta testers I know.