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Should you keep using Windows XP?


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MidnightDistortions

With that said you can still use XP, you just won't be secure anymore and i wouldn't do any online banking or shopping with an obsolete, vulnerable OS. In fact i think i will have to invest in a new printer since i have been using XP to do my taxes/printing out my state return.

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I have huge respect for Win XP but I think it's time to move on.

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My laptop ( 3 years old) came installed with Win 7, and then i found out that it could run XP, which i enthusastically installed!

Lately i got another hard drive and used the restore dvds i made from the original install of Win 7 and now i have 2 hard drives for my laptop-

1 with XP and 1 with Win 7- i do video editing projects and because win 7 is 64 bit, i can run software that my 32 bit XP cannot run!

I have always considered myself a "die hard" XP user...lately though i have been using the Win 7 hard drive and i really like it-

if i didn't, then i would just use the extra hard drive as a backup copy of the other XP drive in case of failure.

...Reading the above comments about secure-ness of future un-supported XP is not something i had considered.

but fully updated, and remaining offline to play games or run things that win 7 will not run, an XP machine can run for years.

and with a good backup plan to restore, no worries. The tower desktop (athlon 64 cpu- agp graphics) XP machine i built in 2005 will run til the hardware dies.

bottom line- i feel good using win 7 ( i did not like win7 at first because of vista) - but i can use it without hassle now.

and its nice to be able to go back to XP if the need arises.

Win 8-I have not gotten there yet...altho my son has it on his laptop- he hates it.

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Windows Xp should be made open source for all Programmers then We will update and patch our system

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goodbye and good riddence, it's about time programs need to support that legacy os, finally apps can start using all the new apis available without having to worry about legacy compatibilty

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