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Re: Windows 8 reminds me too much of Microsoft Bob ZurdoDev22-Oct-12 5:30 ZurdoDev 22-Oct-12 5:30  Way to date yourself. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't. Re: Windows 8 reminds me too much of Microsoft Bob Clifford Nelson25-Oct-12 9:53 Clifford Nelson 25-Oct-12 9:53  Didn't even remember Bob, but I would not be surprised if some of the people working on Bob worked on the UI of Windows 8 XP Clifford Nelson22-Oct-12 5:08 Clifford Nelson 22-Oct-12 5:08  There are a large percentage of people still using XP, and are happy. Plus past experience says that the first version of a new OS is a waste of money (Millenium, Vista). So should wait anyway. Re: XP bitterskittles22-Oct-12 6:59 bitterskittles 22-Oct-12 6:59  ME was the last version of an old OS :P Re: XP Clifford Nelson22-Oct-12 11:23 Clifford Nelson 22-Oct-12 11:23  It was pretty bad for being windows 98 derivative. Re: XP Sperneder Patrick22-Oct-12 19:20 Sperneder Patrick 22-Oct-12 19:20  ..."Plus past experience says that the first version of a new OS is a waste of money (Millenium, Vista).".. hm... i think you missed the start of Windows 7, even the beta version of it fascinated me. Re: XP Clifford Nelson23-Oct-12 6:09 Clifford Nelson 23-Oct-12 6:09  Windows 7 was a fix of Vista. Voted Down: Re: XP Clifford Nelson24-Oct-12 5:14 Clifford Nelson 24-Oct-12 5:14  Since the person who voted down my comment dine not bother to say why he voted down, I will reply Vista had some real performance issues, and other problems. What was the real difference between the two, they basically looked and worked the same. So why did you down vote??????????????? Re: XP Clifford Nelson24-Oct-12 5:17 Clifford Nelson 24-Oct-12 5:17  Obviously somebody does not believe that xp is not still being used by a lot of poeple. I know people who do not like Windows 7/Vista and prefer XP. I also know that neither Vista nor Millenium were ever considered very good OS's. Millenium seemed like it never had very good sales, and I do not beleive either is sill in much use. Know that XP and Windows 7 are. Re: XP R. Giskard Reventlov25-Oct-12 9:01 R. Giskard Reventlov 25-Oct-12 9:01  I know of at least one large corporate (over 50000 staff globally) who have no current plans to switch away from XP and I know they are not alone. The investment in time and resources for a large company can be enormous and may not bring any tangible advantages. "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 Re: XP Clifford Nelson25-Oct-12 9:49 Clifford Nelson 25-Oct-12 9:49  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. Re: XP R. Giskard Reventlov25-Oct-12 11:54 R. Giskard Reventlov 25-Oct-12 11:54  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 Re: XP Clifford Nelson26-Oct-12 5:36 Clifford Nelson 26-Oct-12 5:36  Agree. And for friends who are happy with XP, why deal with the bitching. Only if there's a compelling reason lewax0022-Oct-12 4:22 lewax00 22-Oct-12 4:22  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. I've used it for a few hours so far. Yvan Rodrigues22-Oct-12 4:00 Yvan Rodrigues 22-Oct-12 4:00  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. Yvan Rodrigues Red Cell Innovation Inc. At home, or at work? Nemanja Trifunovic22-Oct-12 3:00 Nemanja Trifunovic 22-Oct-12 3:00  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. utf8-cpp I'm waiting for Windows 10 code name WonTon Mike Hankey22-Oct-12 2:36 Mike Hankey 22-Oct-12 2:36  The UI will be a Crayon Box and the apps will be the crayons. VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.0 ToDo Manager Extension Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1 M'Heart Ain't In It W∴ Balboos, GHB22-Oct-12 2:11 W∴ Balboos, GHB 22-Oct-12 2:11  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. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 Need Live Mesh, so no upgrading John Stewien22-Oct-12 1:26 John Stewien 22-Oct-12 1:26  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. Well I'm still using XP Rob Marsden22-Oct-12 0:29 Rob Marsden 22-Oct-12 0:29  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 Re: Well I'm still using XP SoMad22-Oct-12 15:10 SoMad 22-Oct-12 15:10  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 Re: Well I'm still using XP Steve Mayfield24-Oct-12 8:28 Steve Mayfield 24-Oct-12 8:28  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 _________________ I C(++) therefore I am Going back to Windows 95 Slacker00722-Oct-12 0:29 Slacker007 22-Oct-12 0:29  Seems like the right thing to do. Re: Going back to Windows 95 jlarini22-Oct-12 6:30 jlarini 22-Oct-12 6:30  Slacker, I think that Win98 or Win2K is better than win95... Nothing is Impossible, but sometimes it's hard to do Re: Going back to Windows 95 Slacker00722-Oct-12 6:46 Slacker007 22-Oct-12 6:46  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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