Microsoft has no heart

[Super-Shiny]

They have finally gave up on me, a windows XP user

[charon]

Still using XP on my home PC but OH has windows 7 on hers and windows 8 on our Phablets.

[chykensa]

I know, it's a bugger, means I'll actually have to spend some money on upgrading my desktop and my work laptop; the stingy Council won't pay to upgrade the OS for me. Might have to bite the bullet and spend £400 on a new laptop just for work and music editing/arranging/composing. At least it will work nice and fast, rather than the slowcoach of a machine I have and am using at the moment . .

[Raffles]

Had me worried too Super-Shiny... till I checked and realised my laptop is running Vista (which will probably go the same way)

I found out from here...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26432473

But it does say in that article that most security / anti virus companies will still support it for at least another year.

[toots]

Same here Super-Shiny XP user - spoke to engineer who originally built mine from new, he's gonna put Windows 7 on it next week for me

Damn nuisance though, got to back-up all my firefox bookmarks - got loads of them, + back-up my emails, take note of all my software codes such as anti-virus software, winzip, design suite activation code, + anything else I can think of in the meantime. I hate all this, there will probably be something I'll forget which will give me a major headache when I get the machine back.

Microsoft does not play fair

More expense too

[Super-Shiny]

Apr 3, 2014 20:20:24 GMT Raffles said:

But it does say in that article that most security / anti virus companies will still support it for at least another year.

My windows Microsoft essentials is saying:




Good old Microsoft

[ronaldo]

install belarc it is a free program it finds all serial numbers of all the software on your machine including windows activation code then print and keep it for when you get new windows installed toots

[enjay]

Whenever I ran xp I just installed it and service pack 2 and that was it, all the stupid updates were a ballache anyway, just slowed people pc's down.

I've got the corporate edition and code, you can install it on any machine.

Also have all versions of win 7 with self activation that is fine for updates and windows essentials. I could write a copy to pass round if anyone needs it.

[Raffles]

Apr 3, 2014 20:27:56 GMT Super-Shiny said:

Apr 3, 2014 20:20:24 GMT Raffles said:

But it does say in that article that most security / anti virus companies will still support it for at least another year.

My windows Microsoft essentials is saying:




Good old Microsoft

 I know Microsoft have washed their hands of it,  but below is the quote from the BBC article...

The good news is that many anti-virus companies are planning to keep on updating their products to spot malware aimed at XP. Most are keeping an eye on XP for at least a year and some will keep providing updates for much longer, suggests a list drawn up by independent security monitoring organisation AV Test.

[Perpetua]

I love Windows 7 had my XP desktop and Vista/Win 8 laptops converted a year or so ago, cost me £60 for each machine to be done, best money I've spent on technical gubbins in a long time.

[ronaldo]

Apr 3, 2014 20:34:06 GMT enjay said:

Whenever I ran xp I just installed it and service pack 2 and that was it, all the stupid updates were a ballache anyway, just slowed people pc's down.

I've got the corporate edition and code, you can install it on any machine.

Also have all versions of win 7 with self activation that is fine for updates and windows essentials. I could write a copy to pass round if anyone needs it.

I need a copy of 7

[enjay]

Apr 3, 2014 21:12:33 GMT ronaldo said:

Apr 3, 2014 20:34:06 GMT enjay said:

Whenever I ran xp I just installed it and service pack 2 and that was it, all the stupid updates were a ballache anyway, just slowed people pc's down.

I've got the corporate edition and code, you can install it on any machine.

Also have all versions of win 7 with self activation that is fine for updates and windows essentials. I could write a copy to pass round if anyone needs it.

I need a copy of 7

Then I shall fire it in your direction, post it tomorrow if I remember

[ronaldo]

have you still got my address or should I pm you

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Apr 3, 2014 20:28:50 GMT ronaldo said:

install belarc it is a free program it finds all serial numbers of all the software on your machine including windows activation code then print and keep it for when you get new windows installed toots

you can not use same serial number from xp to w7 or from 32 to 64bit ...(at least not for OS) ....same with some software also.

[Deleted]

just thinking ...why most of the people like to use microsoft windows OS with a fake serial number ???......is not more easy to use free Linux ???