Concerns Grow Over Microsoft's Plans to Kill Windows XP

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What I'm seeing is, despite all efforts to defrag, turn off services, regular updates etc. ALL XP and XP Pro installs across various platforms, Laptop and Desktop are getting slower with each update. All are up to date and SP3. As a test I uninstalled Net Services update on 3 Laptops and 2 Desktops and saw an immediate improvement. I don't have ant hard data but wondered if anyone else saw similar effects lately.

CC of CA 7:17PM November 06, 2009

MS will bow down to the masses. People will not stand for this unless they are sitting. But seriously I for one will never upgrade just like I didn't with Windows 95 until technology forced me to so I could use stuff like USB and Windows 95 didn't support that. Since there is no new tech. coming out that XP doesn't support (it does support PCI Express) then I for one will not be upgrading. Why would I? Yeah thats what I want more MS Bloatware that isn't compatible with tons of my programs! Now my dual core computer runs like a 486 but it sure look good. Right now I use Tiny XP 09 w/ SP3 which uses only 75 Mb of RAM and the windows folder is only 517 Mb big this is without IE, WMP & OE. It runs as fast as Window 95 would on the same system. Beat that MS!! So continue with your Bloatware Vista crap!!

jsmith112@gmail.com of FL 1:36PM November 13, 2008

A few months ago my old HP laptop bit the dust, so I ran down to Circuit City and bought a nice little Compaq with the LAST XP in the store!The floor manager heard my plight as I proclaimed to the young salesman I was not interested in Vista. I got a great deal at only $297 for a new Laptop, with the features you would have expected at $900 in 2006, and I got the last XP. As I walked out of the place I could hear the salesman tell the manager, "why did you do that?" He replied, "This way they're all gone."
So I believe the stores are under pressure as well to push Vista.

Ben T of CA 4:23AM July 12, 2008

Not only is Vista bloated, it is unmanageable and needlessly different from XP and Windows 2000. As a professional IT person and programmer, I find it very difficult to support Vista systems, as gratuitous changes have been introduced that make everything hard to find and control.
Similarly Office 2007 suffers from a complete redesign of the user interface, to no advantage, but to ensure that everyone must be retrained. I defy anyone coming from any previous Office version to complete work in office 2007 under pressure on time. Everyone is lost. This is an irresponsible move and it levies a catastrophic cost/time burden on customers.
I have never thought I'd say this, but a macintosh or Linux KDE system with Open Office is easier for a Windows user to work with than Vista with Office 2007. The very convergence in user interface that made it possible for a person to switch between XP, macOS and Linux/KDE without great difficulty is being deliberately undermined. Companies would do well to consider alternatives to Vista for anyone but advanced users at 64 bit workstations with 8 GB of memory or more.
I have just discovered that many low cost PCs lack drivers for XP and Windows 2000. Beware this hidden Vista lock-in, as you may well want to revert to an older OS. I am having to replace the motherboards on a set of Compaqs (and void the warranty) just so we can install XP. Keep your options open and do not fall for a PC that can only run Vista.

Fernand Raynaud of CA 10:52PM April 30, 2008

I wish that software companies which are found today will support open-source. Yet, people aren't sure if they will use Linux.
If Microsoft will ever CLOSE the support of Windows XP for newly manufactured systems, I am so sure that customers will panic to Microsoft. Forced use of unstable software will lead organizations to failure. And for money, it's going to be worse if they'll pay more.
Windows XP is still the most trusted operating system in the whole wide world even though it's already a "Seven-Year Old Operating System"

David Gil 9:41AM April 29, 2008

I wish that software companies which are found today will support open-source. Yet, people aren't sure if they will use Linux.
If Microsoft will ever CLOSE the support of Windows XP for newly manufactured systems, I am so sure that customers will panic to Microsoft. Forced use of unstable software will lead students, workers, businesses and other organizations to a failure. And for money, it's going to be worse if they'll pay more.
Windows XP is still the most trusted operating system in the whole wide world even though it's already a "Seven-Year Old Operating System"

David Gil 9:39AM April 29, 2008

if you stop supporting xp I will switch to mac.

james of 6:28AM April 29, 2008

If Microsoft was serious about how it values feedback from users it would provide a simple means for folks to provide the feedback. The truth of the matter is that they could care less what we think, instead they focus on how to extract money from the end while offering an inferior product. Ninty nine percent of people don't need a new operating system they need a reliable one. Microsoft does not have a history of making things better, instead they focus on making new things hoping we the consumer will forget about their failures and their history of delivering defective products.

LB` of CT 11:53PM April 28, 2008