XP: Gone as of June 30
CNN writes a short article on users petitioning to keep Windows XP:
No matter how hard Microsoft works to persuade people to embrace Vista, some just can’t be wowed. They complain about Vista’s hefty hardware requirements, its less-than-peppy performance, occasional incompatibility with other programs and devices and frequent, irritating security pop-up windows.
I don’t get it. If you want (need?) Windows XP, then go ahead and buy as much as you want.
If you know you’ll be buying 4 computers in the next two years and definitely need XP on those machines, then stock up with 4 licenses of XP.
If you don’t know when you’ll be buying a computer, then you need to revisit your upgrade plan.
People who are complaining right now are those that 1) can’t act on what they want 2) don’t have a plan for the future or 3) just like to wing it as challenges come by. Sorry folks, it doesn’t work like that.
There are some things that need to be planned and a system upgrade is one of them. Unlike your mainframe operating system, desktop operating systems were not designed to be useful forever. These operating systems need to be rehauled once in a while because the hardware that they’re talking to — gets upgraded all the time. Patching it up won’t work forever.
So you actually have three options here:
- Plan nothing and go with the industry’s plan
- Plan now and buy all the XP licenses you will ever need
- Give Pipboy $10,000, get a mainframe and never worry about upgrading your OS
:P