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As far as I am concerned, XP worked just fine. I do not hesitate to tell someone that it is fine to be on XP. Of course seems like it is best to have moved on from Office XP.
modified 25-Oct-12 15:56pm.
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It did and does the job well - it ain't broke, why fix it? That's not me being a luddite, by the way; it's pragmatism in the face of an OS that works against the time and money it would take to upgrade when, for most people, the upgrade will just bring a flood of calls to a beleaguered help desk and another learning curve most people can't be bothered with.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Agree. And for friends who are happy with XP, why deal with the bitching.
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Right now, I just don't see a benefit to it. The only thing that stands out is a UI change that I don't really want. If at some point I need something like DirectX 12 and only Windows 8 supports it, I'll upgrade. Until then, I'm happy where I am.
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I still haven't adjusted.
I'm very new to both Windows 8 and Mac OS X. So far I find both of them unusable.
I do think that Metro will be nice on a retail tablet, but forcing it into the desktop (even with a touchscreen) is just awkward.
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My home desktop machine is dying and I'll replace it with a Windows 8 one. As for work - I've no idea. In fact my main development environment these days is SUSE Enterprise Linux 11, so I guess it doesn't matter much.
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The UI will be a Crayon Box and the apps will be the crayons.
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I liked the idea of voting no - i.e., no plans to do so. This is what my plans are (fib avoided).
However, reality rears its ugly head: if I wish to keep earning money to keep me steeped in ToFu and hot peppers, I'll need to work on Windows 8 apps, and thus, install it on something or other.
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I work with a group of people and we share 1000s of large files using Live Mesh. The way SkyDrive works isn't going to cut it.
As Live Mesh is only included with Windows Essentials 2011 I assume I'll lose access to the file pool if I upgrade to Windows 8. So no go for me.
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About 60% of the 5000 odd users of our product still use XP (it is not long since we had to support Win98). So I still use XP and am well happy with it. We have Vista and Win7 as VMs for testing environments to support our more adventurous clients. So I can't see Windows 8 on the horizon any time soon. I suspect that for many of our clients Linux would be a prefered option to Windows 8 - we've certainly had a few more requests since Windows 8 started to see the light of day.
If Microsoft want to switch from the Desktop market to the Mobile market, then Windows 8 may be a good way for them to go, but it also seems to distance them from the Desktop market. They proceed down that path at their peril.
Rob in the West Riding
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I am kind of in the same boat. We have sold thousand of systems with our stuff running on Windows XP embedded. We are working on a plan for moving to Win 8 Embedded (or whatever it is called), but for the time being, XPe is working for us.
I could (should) have upgraded my own system to Windows 7 long ago, but since you cannot upgrade from XP to Windows 7 without a full re-install of all your programs, I have been putting it off.
Soren Madsen
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I'm in the same boat with my Win2K machine - OS is on drive D and WinXP doesn't want to do an upgrade 
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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Seems like the right thing to do.
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Slacker,
I think that Win98 or Win2K is better than win95... 
Nothing is Impossible, but sometimes it's hard to do
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jlarini wrote: I think that Win98 or Win2K is better than win95
were they really better? I would argue this stance.
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I am now starting to heavily use Linux at home for my personal development projects at home. Busy learning C++ with Qt for desktop and Python and PHP for the web.
Leading to the conclusion that I will soon have no need for Windows and its absolutely closedness of AppStore or whatever they call it. So unless I get it at my current MS platform work, there is very little chance I will get Win8.
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What about people which use like me, Windows 7 on notebook and on it they has virtual machines with Windows 8 ? 
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Windows 8 does seem to perform pretty well in a VMs.
John
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I use MacOS as primary OS, and Windows on a VM (for Visual Studio, SQL Server and IE). This machine is "just" a 2 Duo Core, so "just" 2 "single" cores.
After I make a new VM with Windows 8, MacOS had been freed 700MB of it's RAM, so my old W7 VM with 1GB of RAM now is a W8 with 1,4GB of RAM, and MacOS has more 300MB free. W8 is more agile on a VM than W7 (also with 1GB).
And now, weeks later, I'm using it in a SSD HD exclusively for windows VM as a secondary MacBook Pro HD. Sweeeet! 
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I Agree!
Nothing is Impossible, but sometimes it's hard to do
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That sounds like "I have Windows 8 on one of my machines" to me.
Soren Madsen
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Yes, you have right. I don't think about this option before
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Although I have tested windows 8 on a few development boxes and I see the OS is solid and boots much faster than windows 7, when the trial period ends I will not be upgrading any system until there is a way to fully turn Aero back on. I really hate the square windows no transparency look of the years past that has been implemented. I also do not like the split personality between the ModernUI and the desktop UI. Although as a desktop user I do not see any use of the ModernUI on a high end system with a large monitor. I do certainly not want my applications to use the entire display so I would prefer a way to totally disable the ModernUI and just go with the windows 7 desktop experience instead of the windows 2000 experience + ModernUI.
John
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John M. Drescher wrote: just go with the windows 7 desktop experience instead of the windows 2000 experience + ModernUI.
 for that ! I wonder how people love those opaque boring windows and colors!
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Dan Suthar wrote: I wonder how people love those opaque boring windows and colors!
Like buying a car for it's colors.
It's the engine that matters.
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