XP-users-risk-zero-day-forever
Aug 19, 2013 11:36:15 #
I can't find the thread from the XP user asking about Vista but this is IMPORTANT! A whole big bunch of Hedge-Hoggers use XP, for better or worse, and Microsoft is about to turn it over to the bad guys. That is effectively what "no longer support" means. Here is a link to an article in the IT literature about this issue.
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-warns-windows-xp-users-risk-zero-day-forever-7000019503/?s_cid=e064&ttag=e064
If you use XP, it is time to think about upgrading to a more robust Operating System like Win 7 or 8 (7 may be difficult to get) and 8 is Ballmer's thumb in the eye for us old guys. You may need to get a better (newer) computer.
Any comparison of anything with Vista has no place in this discussion. Vista was this decade's Millennium Edition, may it rot in hell.
Little story: I went to a conference in June and took my trusty, OLD, Acer laptop with me. This computer from 2005 running XP could not accept the credential from the college's network even putting it in manually. You may be old and working just fine, your computer isn't. So I bought a HP Pavilion with Win 8 - ten times the power at a quarter the weight.
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-warns-windows-xp-users-risk-zero-day-forever-7000019503/?s_cid=e064&ttag=e064
If you use XP, it is time to think about upgrading to a more robust Operating System like Win 7 or 8 (7 may be difficult to get) and 8 is Ballmer's thumb in the eye for us old guys. You may need to get a better (newer) computer.
Any comparison of anything with Vista has no place in this discussion. Vista was this decade's Millennium Edition, may it rot in hell.
Little story: I went to a conference in June and took my trusty, OLD, Acer laptop with me. This computer from 2005 running XP could not accept the credential from the college's network even putting it in manually. You may be old and working just fine, your computer isn't. So I bought a HP Pavilion with Win 8 - ten times the power at a quarter the weight.
Aug 19, 2013 11:58:25 #
Micro$oft made a BIG mistake with XP: it made the OS too good. There is little incentive to upgrade from it, except that Windows 7 is also a very good, stable OS.
Aug 19, 2013 11:59:56 #
I guess this means there not supporting my Windows 98 anymore. Dang, guess it's back to the stone ages.
Aug 20, 2013 07:48:01 #
Bill Houghton wrote:
I guess this means there not supporting my Windows 98 anymore. Dang, guess it's back to the stone ages.
Does anyone remember Windows 3.o?
Aug 20, 2013 08:35:44 #
No one says you have to keep using Windows. It is a memory hog for an operating systems, continually forcing you to upgrade and buy the latest, at a price. Consider LINUX. Operating system and programs FREE. There is a learning curve, but so is there with Windows 8. Also consider a MINI MAC for photography.
Aug 20, 2013 08:43:41 #
No more support for XP :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
Windows 8 Pro here :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Windows 8 Pro here :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Aug 20, 2013 09:20:19 #
MagicFad wrote:
Does anyone remember Windows 3.o?
I rememeber writing my own programs, in DOS - Before windows. Wrote in Basic Just to get Word Perfect to load up, or DBase II. I used to use DBase three for my accounting program to my department.
Aug 20, 2013 09:30:23 #
Aug 20, 2013 09:53:28 #
oldmalky wrote:
I loved Vista but wil never move up to a windows os again
Meaning ?
Aug 20, 2013 10:03:54 #
Aug 20, 2013 10:58:08 #
Bill Houghton wrote:
I rememeber writing my own programs, in DOS - Before windows. Wrote in Basic Just to get Word Perfect to load up, or DBase II. I used to use DBase three for my accounting program to my department.
Don't remember DBase II but DBase III used to be one of my favorite programs. That was "Back in the Day" when Windows was an app, not an OS and a 40MB hard drive was considered pretty huge.
Aug 20, 2013 11:13:21 #
Picdude wrote:
Don't remember DBase II but DBase III used to be one of my favorite programs. That was "Back in the Day" when Windows was an app, not an OS and a 40MB hard drive was considered pretty huge.
30MB was the limit, the 40MB and was told that DOS would never be able to go above 60MB. Add that black Card that gave you more drives to address the 60MB wall. Anything above 60 was assigned a Drive: A-Z, now were talking TER Bits. LOL.. A Drive was 260K.
Aug 20, 2013 12:28:03 #
Bill Houghton wrote:
30MB was the limit, the 40MB and was told that DOS would never be able to go above 60MB. Add that black Card that gave you more drives to address the 60MB wall. Anything above 60 was assigned a Drive: A-Z, now were talking TER Bits. LOL.. A Drive was 260K.
Don't remember the drive limit but the computer that had the 40MB drive was dual partitioned for 30MB and 10MB. That was on an old '286 CPU and I remember mentioning at the time I couldn't conceive of needing anything bigger - HA! Now I have programs that couldn't function with 40MB of RAM, much less fit on a 40MB drive.
Aug 20, 2013 12:34:42 #
I actually started on a TR80 With a cassette tape drive so once you entered the program, you could save it the tape drive. Well hope you saved it to the Tape Drive, then came the commodore 64, even had a remote floppy drive. LOL
Aug 20, 2013 17:13:47 #
Bill Houghton wrote:
I rememeber writing my own programs, in DOS - Before windows. Wrote in Basic Just to get Word Perfect to load up, or DBase II. I used to use DBase three for my accounting program to my department.
The first Windows 3.0 was DOS based, it had some very simple games buried in its program. That was back in 1986 when you had think to use a computer.
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