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You have to trade in your PC and buy a new computer for $600 or more.
There's a good chance that if you're still running XP, your machine is worth less than $100, but this is really not a good deal at all.
You have to trade in your PC and buy a new computer for $600 or more.
There's a good chance that if you're still running XP, your machine is worth less than $100, but this is really not a good deal at all.
this sounds very desperate of microsoft which is sad to see and anyway if they make it $1000 then that is what i paid for my pc. It did have windows 7 but i didn't like it very much so installed windows xp instead in 2009. this pc has been running very well and has so far had windows 7, windows xp and ubuntu 13.10.![]()
Microsoft should of ditched XP a lot sooner so in a way its partly their fault,I also wonder how long XP users want to stay on XP ie 20 years,30 years?..You have to let it go sooner or later,end of the day XP users have had plenty of time and warning.
There's a good chance that if you're still running XP, your machine is worth less than $100, but this is really not a good deal at all.
Microsoft should of ditched XP a lot sooner so in a way its partly their fault,I also wonder how long XP users want to stay on XP ie 20 years,30 years?..You have to let it go sooner or later,end of the day XP users have had plenty of time and warning.
There is just no excuse in my book for being stuck on XP, unless you have a very good reason. (f.x. needed for compatibility reasons, or operating specialized equipment)
Worth less to whom?
I suspect that a lot of people still sporting XP PCs with minimal usage requirements would rather keep their PC than have $100. Even if it was £100 UKP it's still a poor exchange.
Haha wow they sure are desperate. They did it to themselves though, if they wanted to stop supporting XP then they should have stuck with their original date. They should also make 7 easier to get, all you see everywhere is 8. Nobody wants that garbage.
Nobody wants that garbage.
Win8.1 is excellent OS and your statement is not valid on last part as well ,I mean Win7 came out eight years after XP was released and users had plenty of time to upgrade(over a decade),as usual some users try to blame Win8 but hey its only been available for a little while compared to XP and Vista/Win7.
Win9 out next year I wonder what XP users will think for their next excuse.
You could not pay me to go back to XP.
not even for £100 and remember this is pounds which is worth more than $100 dollars?in case you don't know £100 equals $165 so in the reverse $100 equals £60 which is not worth much.
all this maths on a sunday morning after i went out last night on the booze.
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My mother begged me for weeks, blowing up my phone, to put XP on her new (at the time, 2006) laptop that came with Vista. I refused and made her learn it, and she couldn't understand why so many people hate it.
She bought a new laptop last month with 8.1 and a touchscreen. She loves it. She said it was easy to use. This is coming from a woman who has a hard time installing apps on her Android phone and can't remember a password to save her life.
Personally I actually quite like W8. Looking forward to the 8.1 Update 1 next month. Also really wishing I had a touchscreen on my laptop too.
That's the issue. Try doing REAL work on an OS that's designed for touch... heck try doing any real world on a touch interface even. Touch is nice for basic stuff and mostly for consumption but if you want to do any real work like coding, CAD, or pretty much anything productive, this whole movement of everything being touch is crap. Give me my keyboard, mouse, and multiple monitors and a GUI that is designed for it.
My fear is that Linux decides to follow the touch and/or GUI revamp crowd too. They did it with Ubuntu, but thankfully there are other flavors of Ubuntu and other distros that have a real proper GUI.
Rakehellion said:There's a good chance that if you're still running XP, your machine is worth less than $100, but this is really not a good deal at all.
No not at all......... It just shows how desperate they are to get people to A MORE INTRUSIVE OS where they have even more control!! (To be quite frank about it)