Comments on: A Few Words About My Good Buddy, Windows XP

By: Kennedy

Kennedy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:33:51 +0000

I liked windows98se and me after restore was disabled. As I'm forced to stick behind in xp-pro i have got to try vista beta as well as released version and updated version. there hogs. vista might work for a tv/pc and i think it will prob. mess that up to.
windows 7 on the other hand seems to do more right than vista by a long shot but still has the version problem so ya might go for win7 w/xp support while i learn more about linux who can turn down a working os thats free

By: Cheri

Cheri — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:36:21 +0000

Nice XP retirement article. I do remember I thought he looked a bit silly when I first saw him with those bright cartoony letters. Now he is indeed an old friend and I think he should be given the nicest of gold watches and an unlimited pension.
Actually he is still hard at work in my house.
I am still running XP SP2. I have had experience of all the Windows OSs and XP has been the most stable for me from the start; I have NEVER (knock on wood) had the BSOD that was so familiar from some earlier versions of Windows. I have been hesitant to upgrade to SP3 considering peoples problems with it.

My desktop is getting really geriatric but part of my hesitation in getting a new computer has been the question of what OS I want. From what I've seen & heard, I'm just not really chomping at the bit for Vista; I don't know what version of it I would want and for some reason I even feel sort of annoyed that it HAS all those different versions. The store is still selling new PCs with XP Pro and it's tempting to grab one. Otherwise with my next one, I may be switching to Linux.

By: Kendall Walls

Kendall Walls — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:07:56 +0000

Everyone is venting spleen at Microsquisshy's attempts to foist Vista upon PC-users, as if this were a new and surprising pattern of behavior for them. It's not. Rather, it follows a long-standing tradition; c.f. their beloved "Windows Genuine (Dis)Advantage" program, which, as everyone knows, is spyware in its purest form, designed to guarantee that; 1)the programs we use are "Genuine Windows **itware"; 2) their revenue-stream will continue to flow, unobstructed. So, what ELSE is new?

By: Walt

Walt — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:24:05 +0000

I think I had just as many problems with XP as I had with DOS 4. (Of course I didn't have DOS 4 very long.)But I suffered through those problems until I can say I haven't had any real problems with XP in a couple of years. It has improved dramatically.

Now that it works, along comes Vista. I put it on a network with several XP machines and I can't get it to work. The XP machines all work fine and can even see and move files back and forth from the Vista. But the darned Vista machine has trouble even seeing the XPs. It won't acknowledge any shared files or printers.

I also have to reboot the Vista machine often to get back on the Internet. At the same time, my XP machines are surfing right along. This is progress?

By: Hal

Hal — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:29:54 +0000

My PC has Vista Home Premium, but my laptop is still with XP Pro. Let's just say this..I am not as impressed with Vista as I was with XP.I have never had any freeze ups with either, but there are small annoying things with Vista that I don't get with XP. I find that Vista does not work as well with wireless networks as XP. I am quite often having to do a "Diagnose and Repair" for my internet on Vista. My music skips when listening to protected music files on iTunes, something that never happened on my laptop with XP.

By: Bob Stover

Bob Stover — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:41:29 +0000

With my business I've suffered thru Win 3.1, Win 95, Win98, SE and finally Win2k which was the most stable of all. Last year I was forced by some other software to go to XP and I have been very pleased with it. All running on Dell machines (SP2 ONLY) It has been great- NO Blue screens YET! VISTA WHO???? NOT in my life time.
When will Microsoft learn *&%^@%@$%^#

With that said, I just bought a Apple laptop Pro for my business laptop. I have been running 1/2 the HD on OSX and 1/2 on XP. WOW does it scream on either OS. I think Microsoft is going to be old news is a few years. My Apples crash or lock up once a year or so(in OSX, Still have a few more lock ups in XP) I use apple at home and as soon as some mainstream business software is written of apple I'll be dumping Microsoft. Apple has a great server package even for business. That's next for my business!
BYE MICROSOFT!

By: christopher

christopher — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:02:35 +0000

I bought a nice new Dell dual core machine and brought it home and watched as it struggled to run, gagging on Vista. After about a week I pulled the hard drive and formatted it and installed XP-Pro. NOW she runs quick and sweet. I hope that somewhere along the line I can find a list of things I can pull out of Vista, so it doesnt require 1/2 a gig of ram just to sit and idle–I don't like Vista–YAH HEAR that BILL-

By: Randy Welch

Randy Welch — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:58:45 +0000

I appreciated the wit in the salute to XP's retirement almost as much as I love XP. I have been dealing with computers since the days of the Commodore 64 and appreciate the advances made in OS…. Yes, there were a few steps back(and Vista may very well be one); but to say that you will abandon pc for an Apple is as foolish as saying that you'll quit watching TV after 02/09. What will you do? Read a book????
There are almost as many attacks on Mac as there are on PC's and Mac is slower to respond and anywhere from 50-200% higher to purchase. Oh, and did I mention your software and perepherals compatibility issues?
After all , when I had ME Crashing harddrive after harddrive….. I upgraded to XZP PRO. If Vista is that hard to swallow…. Isn't 7 right on the horizon?

By: Wanda

Wanda — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:12:03 +0000

I started out using OS95,then I moved onto 98,98SE and finally to XP. I stayed away from XP as long as I could for myself, but learned it on others computers and came to like it very much. I have tried Vista on other computers. All I would like to know is why,why is everything hidden? Vista is just a game you are trying to defeat. I don't enjoy it.One good thing about Vista is Office being with the software. But again trying to find what you need is like going to the Dentitst. It make me sick taking all that time to figure out where everything is. I hope whom ever came up with hiding everything one day is faced with all the headaches himself that he has caused everyone else. It makes me sick just thinking about it. I won't purchase it until I am forced to buy a new machine. You can't even read documents from regular office. At least the other office's you could open and read. Vista seems to be about money and not making the OS better with all the changes and non-compability. I can understand well when changes are made to completly take care of problems but Vista is a whole new world that is causing havack to peoples lives. Now why would I want to just spend money for a headache.The inventors were not thinking a normal people that have graciously made microsoft a leading gaint. Just another money maker for those who like to spend money on new things and games. Anybody know if there's a book out for "vista for dummies" yet?

By: Doris Biggerstaff

Doris Biggerstaff — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:05:12 +0000

When XP goes out I won't be able to afford Vista. And buy programs I don't need. I will be forced to shut down completely. That is not fair to me and others that have put there business and banking on the net for faster service. This is not fair. Plus I will have to buy a new computer. Too expensive.