sho-dan Posted October 26, 2011 ID:488973 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Some people just dont want to give you their money anymore! Mr.Bill Microsoft is eager for Windows XP, its 10-year-old operating system, to fade into computing history. The sooner the better, in fact. But for that to happen, the Redmond company needs millions of XP users to drop creaky, old XP and migrate (hopefully) to Windows 7, or even to Windows 8, which won't arrive until next year.Windows XP's demise may be proceeding steadily, but Redmond wants to pick up the pace. According to analytics firm Net Applications, XP finished September 2011 with a 50.5 percent share of all desktop operating systems, a drop of nearly 10 percent from just ten months earlier.Microsoft has made it clear in recent weeks that it will be ending support for XP in April 2014, a hard deadline the company hopes will light a fire under enterprise customers still running XP on aging iron.Redmond usually supports its operating systems for 10 years after their introduction. However, it made an exception in XP's case, extending the OS's lifespan by three years due to XP's popularity in the enterprise market. pcworld Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShyWriter Posted October 26, 2011 ID:488984 Share Posted October 26, 2011 +3Amen.. SteveAltho' I *did* JUST upgrade one of my granddaughter's DELLs from WindowsME to WinXP Sp3.. Only legal licensed OS I had that wasn't installed somewhere.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Root Admin AdvancedSetup Posted October 26, 2011 Root Admin ID:488994 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Actually Microsoft Windows XP is 10 years old today: 25 October 2001A history of Windows Highlights from the first 25 yearsXP Turn 10And don't think that Windows XP is dead just yet - take a look hereWindows 98 and pre 98 versions still show in that list and they're well outside the quoted 10 years of support as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amethyst Posted October 26, 2011 ID:489045 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Well, in our household/business, it's the hardware that will be changed/upgraded first, and at that time, the OS will change accordingly. I think some of us who are using computers and laptops which are successfully running Windows XP will continue with that until the computers and laptops themselves need replacing. Our main computer is 6 years old and still going strong on XP SP3. My laptop is 3 years old on XP and performing just fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500 Posted October 26, 2011 ID:489082 Share Posted October 26, 2011 And don't think that Windows XP is dead just yet - take a look hereFunny, I don't see webOS anywhere in the stats. Must not have that great of a user base... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintree16 Posted October 26, 2011 ID:489097 Share Posted October 26, 2011 heh heh.Interesting... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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