YAXPT: Will you stop using XP after support runs out?

[DesiPower]

I have 4 machines running XP at home, 3 used regularly, and constantly wondering what should I do after support runs out. Wonder what others are doing? WWATOTD?





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[AznAnarchy99]

XP for me died when Windows 7 beta came out.

 

[bigi]

XP?

I still use 95!

 

[Skel]

How many threads does this topic need?

 

[Insomniator]

XP died for me when VISTA came out. XP stopped existing completely for me when 7 beta came out.

 

[ultimatebob]

I love the third party patches idea... I bet that more of these "patches" will contain malware than prevent it

 

[ultimatebob]

XP died for me when VISTA came out. XP stopped existing completely for me when 7 beta came out.

I work in the food service IT industry. Forget XP... we still have customers running registers with DOS

 

[G73S]

XP: an ancient 14 year old OS that doesn't support multi core CPUs, moving on...

 

[ultimatebob]

XP: an ancient 14 year old OS that doesn't support multi core CPUs, moving on...

That's not true. I had no problem running XP on a Core 2 Duo. XP Pro even supported dual CPU systems.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...imit-for/abd0a0ce-4ac2-484b-88cb-fbf93beb54e0

I think that it maxes out at 3.5 GB of memory, though (for the 32 bit version, anyway).

 

[nemesismk2]

I love the third party patches idea... I bet that more of these "patches" will contain malware than prevent it

that is what i think will happen so i will not use them.

 

[escrow4]

That's not true. I had no problem running XP on a Core 2 Duo. XP Pro even supported dual CPU systems.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...imit-for/abd0a0ce-4ac2-484b-88cb-fbf93beb54e0

I think that it maxes out at 3.5 GB of memory, though (for the 32 bit version, anyway).

It doesn't properly support them. The scheduler differences. The biggest problem is that its a security mess and has zero support for modern features - think UEFI and GPT. It was built back in 2001, it just isn't designed for anything modern.

 

[code65536]

I stuck with XP for a looong time because of all the crap they did they to Windows Explorer in Vista. Partial migration to 7 when that came out (out of necessity for support on modern hardware), but it wasn't until 8 (which fixed many--though not all--of the regressions and offered enough goodies to offset the rest) that I finally abandoned XP completely.

 

[88keys]

XP: an ancient 14 year old OS that doesn't support multi core CPUs, moving on...

I wouldn't have spent over $500 on my Athlon 64 X2 4200+ back in 2005 (before Vista) if I had no OS that supported dual core.

And although XP Home Edition only supports single CPU systems, it will still support dual core CPUs because your product license back then entitled you to use one copy of Windows per CPU.

And I even have an XP machine in use on a C2D E6600. It's offline and stripped down to about a 250MB iso.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

XP: an ancient 14 year old OS that doesn't support multi core CPUs, moving on...

It doesn't properly support them. The scheduler differences.

some pretty misguided information here

XP supports multiple cores just fine, its number of CPUs that is what people get confused about, and would have helped if it had been described as number of CPU sockets that the OS supports...i.e. XP Home supports 1 x CPU socket systems while XP Pro could support 2 x CPU socket systems

IIRC, 32bit XP supports up 32 cores/threads divided up between either 1 or 2 processors (ie either 1 x 32 core/thread CPU or 2 x 16 core/thread CPU) while XP Pro x64 supports up to 64 cores, same deal. So with 32bit XP Pro you could run a dual 8-core Xeons with HT and have support for all 32 processing threads.

edit, yup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Processor_limits

that being said, just because it can support multiple cores doesn't mean you would want to use XP with modern hardware (particularly under 32bit with the 4GB limitation, even more so if you're using a video card with more than 512MB of ram)

 

[DesiPower]

Just heard this on NPR, 95 percent of U.S. ATMs run on Windows XP??? WTH

 

[88keys]

It's probably an embedded version of XP which has mostly been stripped down to basics. That and I'd be willing to bet that most of them are in VPNs firewalls etc. All of the above should render them pretty secure even after EoS.

 

[lamedude]

I bet 10m theoretical dollars that the extended support patches will find there way onto the usual places.

 

[blankslate]

I bet 10m theoretical dollars that the extended support patches will find there way onto the usual places.

There are business that are paying large sums of money because they can't (for whatever reason) migrate certain PCs to windows 7 or 8

 

[Mem]

My last XP PC I replaced it with Linux Mint,best thing I did and yes its still working great,obviously I've my other Win8.1 Pro x64 PCs as well so have it all covered .


Also about ten months ago my brother and I replaced my mums old XP PC (some hardware too)with Win7,she is more then happy and still using it on daily basis,I keep saying there are plenty of alternatives out there,its not end of the world guys.

 

[Charlie98]

I loaded Xubuntu on my old XP laptop as a test bed... we will see how it goes. It not worth the cost of W7/8 to prop up an aging laptop, but they are still useful.

 

[corkyg]

Can't upgrade - computer (an old P4) will be replaced.

 

[PliotronX]

Since going from XP64 to 7 I haven't looked back but I'm not forcing upgrades on my friends and family because XP is still very much viable.

 

[nemesismk2]

I have 2 windows xp computers, 1 windows 7 (have tried out windows 8 and i like it so maybe upgrade windows 7 to windows 8) computer and i use windows xp with a couple of laptops which allow for easy installation to ubuntu with a internet dongle.

 

[ultimatebob]

Just heard this on NPR, 95 percent of U.S. ATMs run on Windows XP??? WTH

Those guys have to be using the Embedded version (I hope). That still has support for at least 2 more years.

That said, you would be amazed by how many Point Of Sale and Kiosk systems out there are still running Windows XP and are connected to the Internet in some fashion. It's firewalled up the yin-yang, but still scary.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Yes. I'm pulling the plug on XP after 8 years and have pc parts on the way to host my new copy of Windows 7. I hope to make the switch next week.