Windows XP is Still The Dominant OS

[cheez]

XP is way too prone to viruses and other kinds of corruptions. Very buggy compared to Windows 7.

Yes WinXp is notorous for registry corruption. User profile corruption is common too. It has the following advantages:

- CHEAP to get it.
- Extremely high compatibility
- Take up less system resource.

A lot of couintries outside of U.S. use WinXP even now. Most of applications the businesses and factories use rely on WinXp due to compatibility and low cost.


Windows 7 has the following advantages:

- Better memory management
- Nearly twice the speed of Network file transfer speeds
- Improved internet connection / downloads


Question: So is Windows 7 super? Answer: Helllllllllllllllllllll no. I think it's ghey.

Question #2: Ok then, do you like WinXP? Answer: Not really. I don't hate it tho. I would get the Windows 2000 and Server 2003 as they are king of the king kongs.


Now I found a new love. Mac OS X Lion. It is an addition to my favorite OS collection now.

 

[Nothinman]

Yes WinXp is notorous for registry corruption. User profile corruption is common too. It has the following advantages:

- CHEAP to get it.
- Extremely high compatibility
- Take up less system resource.

- It's hard to find legitimate licenses since MS stopped selling it
- Not really with drivers right now and as time moves forward, less and less apps will work on XP
- That's debatable. Win7 ran just as well, if not better, than XP on my old work laptop with 2G of memory.

Windows 7 has the following advantages:

- Better memory management
- Nearly twice the speed of Network file transfer speeds
- Improved internet connection / downloads

Don't forget things like

- Much, much better security.
- Searchable start menu which kills the XP and older style
- Breadcrumb address bar in Explorer for simpler navigation
- Rearrangeable taskbar with app pinning and jump lists
- DX11
- Much better power management
- An actually supported 64-bit build
- Support for drives with >512b sectors and TRIM
- Native mounting of VHDs
- A worthwhile firewall

And a ton of other things I can't think of right now.

Question: So is Windows 7 super? Answer: Helllllllllllllllllllll no. I think it's ghey.

Question #2: Ok then, do you like WinXP? Answer: Not really. I don't hate it tho. I would get the Windows 2000 and Server 2003 as they are king of the king kongs.

Win7 is easily the best OS from MS to date. Saying it's ghey just means you haven't spent enough time with it to learn how it works and you're stuck in the past because change is scary.

Now I found a new love. Mac OS X Lion. It is an addition to my favorite OS collection now.

See, now OS X is very gay. You want to talk about a mediocre OS at best with no compatibility? OS X is at best 3rd on my list and that's if I group Android in with Linux.

 

[cheez]

- It's hard to find legitimate licenses since MS stopped selling it

Refurbished PC's come with Windoz XP!
And some places still sell WinXP, out there in the world.

- Not really with drivers right now and as time moves forward, less and less apps will work on XP

It's too much work and cost lots of money for businesses and plants to do major upgrade to newer OS, Win7 for example.
Besides, drivers for WinXp is plenty available. Go to support.dell.com under drivers. WinXp is everywhere.

Don't forget things like

- Much, much better security.

Oh yeah I forgot that. Yes, security is much better on the Win7. But Windows Server 2003 *trounces* it. You don't even need Server 2008.

- Searchable start menu which kills the XP and older style

Search function from Windows Explorer is absolutely terrible in Windows 7. We have a major thread for that here.

- DX11

I suspect that DX11 and new components in Windows 7 is screwing up with my special video player application. It does not properly utilize hardware acceleration. They screwed it up. Higher number of Direct X versions doesn't mean it's automatically better.

- Native mounting of VHDs

Nice, but we can install those programs manually on older OSes.

And a ton of other things I can't think of right now.

Not enough to overcome its slowness / responsiveness the OS is already. It's too slow. And the pop-up notification doesn't go away quick enough and blocks my view! affects productivity.

Win7 is easily the best OS from MS to date. Saying it's ghey just means you haven't spent enough time with it to learn how it works and you're stuck in the past because change is scary.

It is farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr from being best OS from MS to date. Like I have said before, OSes anything older (except for Vista and ME) are superior in speed and better compatibility with apps.

See, now OS X is very gay. You want to talk about a mediocre OS at best with no compatibility? OS X is at best 3rd on my list and that's if I group Android in with Linux.

OS X is gay??? no way! It's one of the best. I seem to love this OS. The more I use it the more I like it. Windows 7 is a huge let-down.

 

[nemesismk2]

OS X is gay??? no way! It's one of the best. I seem to love this OS. The more I use it the more I like it. Windows 7 is a huge let-down.

I've never used OS X myself but it comes highly rated from some of my friends. My thinking is if your going to use your computer for hours for work then it's best if you use something which you like using.

 

[Charlie98]

Outlook Express is PURE CRAP!!

I avoid it like the plague.

Wow... and all these years I was so happy with OE. I guess I didn't know what I was not missing... :awe:

Besides the claim that OE is "PURE CRAP', ...why? Honest to God, I've never had a problem with it in the 13 or so years I've been using it. Define 'Crap.'

 

[gmaster456]

If VISTA and WIN 7 are so great, how come the Public Library Systems havent converted over to it?

Mine has.....

 

[gmaster456]

As far as XP, I don't hate it, but I won't use it on any of my computers again. It's old, tired, driver support is waning, it really doesn't handle multi-core CPUs and large amounts of RAM very well (and the driver support sucks more with 64bit XP), DirectX is limited to 9.0c, etc. It is also the most prone to viruses and malware these days, not that it is an issue for me but I'm just speaking in general terms here.

These too are the reasons I don't have any XP machines anymore.

 

[Engineer]

All of our work laptops are Windows XP Pro. as much of the older industrial software will simply not run on anything else. Some of the software that is actively updated STILL won't run on anything but XP.

 

[shortylickens]

Came in hoping for intelligent discussion.
Leaving disappoint.

 

[Mem]

I just switched over to W7 for my new build and I hate it. XP rules...

I rather use Linux then go back to XP infact I do,ie Win7 for gaming and Linux for other stuff,fact is Win7 is 10000000x better then XP which has more holes then you would find in space.

 

[Charlie98]

I rather use Linux then go back to XP infact I do,ie Win7 for gaming and Linux for other stuff,fact is Win7 is 10000000x better then XP which has more holes then you would find in space.

Because I'm a techno-n00b, and I don't completely understand all security issues with XP vs W7... my point of reference is simplicity of use: XP is easier to get around on than W7 (for me.) Same with the villified OE... it is FAR easier to use than Outlook or, from the short nightmare I tried to deal with it, Win Live Mail.

Entusiasts are a very small fraction of the Global market.

I guess I'm part of the 99%...

It's a moot point, however... I'm into W7 and I'm stuck with it. I suspect support for XP will wane, especially after W8 hits and, I suppose, in a Darwin-istic way, it's as it should be.

 

[nemesismk2]

I rather use Linux then go back to XP infact I do,ie Win7 for gaming and Linux for other stuff,fact is Win7 is 10000000x better then XP which has more holes then you would find in space.

I think you might be exaggerating a bit there.

 

[SimMike2]

That is the funniest thing Ive heard in a long time.

Bought a bunch of notebooks with VISTA and VISTA is crap. Switched them to XP along with using Centurion's DriveShield/Smart Restart and have used these guys on the networks ALL over town and never had to worry about virus or even spyware.

The main reason I hold off any change is because I need my old software application which do everything I need to do, do it fast, do it my way and do it inexpensively.

I dont like all the bullshit intermediate screens that MS has added beginning with VISTA. For example, just got a call last week from some friend who had network connection trouble with his newer system and trying to help him over the phone to go thru all the extra bullshit intermediate screens to get something done reminded me what a downer the new OSes can be. Too verbose.

If VISTA and WIN 7 are so great, how come the Public Library Systems havent converted over to it? They upgraded all the Office packages a couple times to at least 2007.

Don't tar Windows 7 with the Vista name. Windows 7 is light years better than Vista. All I know is since my extended family group made the switch to Windows 7 from XP, they never call me with computer problems (mainly viruses and various file corruption issues) like they did with XP. No getting around the fact that XP is a patched together OS that is over ten years old. It has too many gaping holes in the OS which have been exploited over the years. The problem isn't expert computer users with XP, the problem is most people don't know anything about computers and they are the ones that XP let get into to trouble.

 

[janas19]

Don't tar Windows 7 with the Vista name. Windows 7 is light years better than Vista. All I know is since my extended family group made the switch to Windows 7 from XP, they never call me with computer problems (mainly viruses and various file corruption issues) like they did with XP. No getting around the fact that XP is a patched together OS that is over ten years old. It has too many gaping holes in the OS which have been exploited over the years. The problem isn't expert computer users with XP, the problem is most people don't know anything about computers and they are the ones that XP let get into to trouble.

Did you say tar? As in, tape archive?

In fact, I was perusing another thread on the forums and someone said that Vista is the same, performance wise, as W7. The only real divergence is the screwy GUI of VISTA. In fact, after all the service packs, it's not so bad. It just got so much bad pres s upon initial rollout that for practical purposes, it never recovered.

 

[Matt1970]

XP is ok but but Microsoft is doing everything they can to get rid of it. IE9 won't run on it and a lot of websites are starting to require it. Thanks god for Chrome and Firefox. They have patched and modded XP so much that it is almost as much of a resource hog as Vista and 7 are.

 

[C1]

People have brought their WIN 7 machines to me to have them configured. WIN 7 is okay.

I dont advocate anyone trying to downgrade from WIN 7.

What Im saying is that for me, I wont upgrade till I am forced to. It's not just the OS that's involved if that were to happen. A change to WIN 7 would also require finding suitable replacement softwares and In some cases I probably would have to replace hardware which no doubt is a reason why the Public Library System isnt embracing any OS upgrades from the current use of XP. The Library Systems use DriveShield technology to protect against malware and that is also what I use. I have been running a desk top & several notebooks with only SP2 for over three years and have never had to deal with any malware infection issues.

I do lots of research projects using my big machine - audio, video, graphics, signs brochures, ads, all kinds of special projects. The big machine that I built as research machine is also used to repair other peoples machines. Right now Im a complete satisfied user and demonstrate myself to be more productive than most people who use lots newer software and equipments than I have.
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Reminds me of the joke about this truck that nearly runs a sports car off the road. The car catches up and the driver, yells for the trucker to pull over. A small Korean guy bounces out, assumes a stance and shrieks "Karate!". The burley truck driver casually rolls down his window, reaches into the glove box and shouts back "Monkey Wrench!".

 

[Mem]

I think you might be exaggerating a bit there.

Ok take out a 0 ,only 1000000x better then .

XP has had its day time to move on,I was a die had DOS 6.22 fan many decades ago but you have to move with the times ,no OS lasts forever,you have to move on sooner or later,I won't bother mentioning the security improvements,new features etc a new OS can bring.

 

[her209]

Windows 7 has this annoying feature where it will auto-sort your files in Explorer. I haven't found a way to turn it off.

 

[nemesismk2]

Ok take out a 0 ,only 1000000x better then .

Thats much more like it

 

[njdevilsfan87]

The biggest benefits of W7 I have found

- Far better 64-bit support
- Far better multi-taskability

Being able to snap windows, and hover in and out of them, and just browsing through the file menu (or just using the shortcut search) is much, much better on W7. I have to use XP on my lab computer(s) and it is a pain when I've got a lot of windows open. It's a pain in general to use actually. Simpler is not necessarily better.

 

[MustangSVT]

Donno why ppl hate XP so much. I prefer it's simple style much more. And I'll never get used to win7 style explorer.

 

[nemesismk2]

Donno why ppl hate XP so much. I prefer it's simple style much more. And I'll never get used to win7 style explorer.

I don't know why people hate XP so much too.

I like the simple style too and it runs great even on slower low memory computers so you don't need the most modern computer to use it. windows 7 is a vast improvement over windows vista though.

 

[VirtualLarry]

XP is way too prone to viruses and other kinds of corruptions. Very buggy compared to Windows 7.

This. Although, XP has never "forgotten" to put the monitor to sleep, like Win7 has a tendency to do.

 

[classy]

I have just removed the last XP machine from our network of about 80. I haven't used XP at home in over a year for my main machine. It was a great OS after many years of tinkering, but Win 7 is just a better more stable OS.

 

[nemesismk2]

I have just removed the last XP machine from our network of about 80. I haven't used XP at home in over a year for my main machine. It was a great OS after many years of tinkering, but Win 7 is just a better more stable OS.

I've heard really good things from friends about Ubuntu which is probably going to be my next os upgrade because I am not a gamer.