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I like this very much lehnerus2000
Cars didn't become the dominant private transportation method, because the car companies went out and shot all of the horses.
I like this very much lehnerus2000
Cars didn't become the dominant private transportation method, because the car companies went out and shot all of the horses.
Love that Lexus LFA. Its engine engineering and acoustics are amazing just like 7. Windows 8 is out of this world lol.
I didn't mean to imply that 8 has any futuristic design, just bug-ugly and alien to the Desktop experience which 7 perfected. But its plainness also has no design advantage like with an Element or Cube, just ugly.
As far as I know there will be nothing stopping you from using XP as long as you can find hardware for it. Microsoft won't update or patch it anymore but I drought they are going to flip a kill switch. They could turn off the XP activation servers I guess but I don't see them doing that, it would be bad press to do that. It will be a use at your own risk scenario. It would cost Microsoft a lot of money to continually support older operating systems so at some point they have to just let it go and move on. They aren't going to sell any more XP licenses so there is no more revenue to be had in it. That and they want you to move on to something better. Preferably another MS operating system.
After thousands (some would say millions) of years of man toiling and manufacturing different goods- AFAIK, a software program, or OS is the ONLY thing that man can make that will not naturally age and be rendered unusable solely due to time passing by. Therefore this amazing achievement should be celebrated IMO. This achievement and the programs/OSs that it represents- should not be dreaded, shunned, or rendered obsolete by design.
ETA: There is another different product that I can think of that holds its value and actually gets better w/age... Wine (and other alcoholic beverages). We don't scrap all old bottles just for the sake of change for new ones- I don't think.
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I resent M$ for forcing W8 upon us.
Tried W8 beta for a couple months in a virtual system. Hated it. The list of features I dislike is long.
I'll be using W7 as long as I can. If I remember right I hung on to W2K until XP SP4 and skipped Vista altogether.
It's a shame M$ couldn't/wouldn't give us the option of having either the W8 desktop or a "classic W7 view"
MS had trouble giving W8 away ($15-$40).
Given that 300M - 600M PCs still run XP (depending on whose figures you believe), MS could sell "extended update packs" for it.
I suspect a lot of those users would be willing to pay $50 - $100 to keep using their current machines and software (instead of upgrading to W8).
That could bring in $15B - $60B in income.
The very first one would just be a roll-up of the updates since SP3 (100% pure profit - no effort required).