Windows XP Turns 10

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Windows XP quietly turned 10 years old Wednesday, a milestone for the still-popular operating system that powers nearly half the world's PCs.

Microsoft did not celebrate the anniversary, eschewing any congratulatory blog post or press release.

On Aug. 24, 2001, Microsoft shifted Windows XP's status to RTM, for "release to manufacturing," a term it uses to mark the end of development and the move to duplication and release to computer makers. XP reached retail in October 2001.

One analyst questioned whether it was really the right anniversary to celebrate.

"The Windows XP that people loved wasn't [the original 2001] XP, it was XP SP2," said Michael Cherry, an analyst with Kirkland, Wash.-based Directions on Microsoft, a research firm that covers only Microsoft.

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Now what we will do is just sit in our computer, waiting for the countdown that XP will leave as extinction.
 
jamescv7 said:
Now what we will do is just sit in our computer, waiting for the countdown that XP will leave as extinction.
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Not looking forward to that... :(
 
jamescv7 said:
Now what we will do is just sit in our computer, waiting for the countdown that XP will leave as extinction.
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Microsoft is going to have a hard time killing Widows XP off completely, to many users still prefer it.
 
specially in emergent countries WinXP will survive, light and cheap.
 
Also even when the time was over to XP, it isn't easy that all people will migrate to modern OS and practically can be few will do it.
 
The problem with this is just this, most systems that Windows XP are on, are older, the hardware will not support windows 7 efficiently.. Although many still are on XP because they are comfortable with it, there are many that just simply can not afford to go out and buy a new computer..
 
Agree, from your post I remembered on the news from TV, interviewed by an owner of internet shop and he said that he will upgrade the hardware and OS once Windows XP will come to end.
 
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but their must migrate to modern OS (win 7)
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some people in some countries cant, they cant afford to pay a dual core cpu with 4gb ram when their salary is 100usd a month... they must feed their family and have others things more important to care than upgrade their hardwares.

not everybody come from rich countries ...

ps: that post remind me a argue with Dieselman :D
 
umbrapolaris said:
win7holic said:
but their must migrate to modern OS (win 7)
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some people in some countries cant, they cant afford to pay a dual core cpu with 4gb ram when their salary is 100usd a month... they must feed their family and have others things more important to care than upgrade their hardwares.

not everybody come from rich countries ...

ps: that post remind me a argue with Dieselman :D
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yep. i know umbra.
but, you know my old laptop? run with celeron 1,7GHz (3-4 years ago) with 1,5GB ram. run win 7 without any lag and can run adobe photoshop CS5.
not always high specs to run win 7. on the net have ton of tweak for win 7 (make it faster). win 7 32bit (idle) just use 490MB of ram (my old laptop)
 
i have a old laptop with a celeron too, i just can run w7 already optimized and one or two big apps before it become sluggish, so i rather put Winxp for optimal performance. useless to put W7 on it because W7 is nicer or cooler. performance first; usability or design is second rank for me.
 
me too.
first is performance and second is modify themes ,etc.
my reason; why i install windows 7 on my old hardware is just want to test can run well or not. then ,it run very well for me ,just make it fast boot and shut down.
 
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