Tony Molloy wrote:
Security updates are still being provided to XP so existing users aren't
being forced to switch yet as they are continuously in fedora, and
there's a chance they will have it mostly fixed by SP2 time. In any
case I can deal with a change once a decade or so. But yes, I will
complain if any of my current programs don't continue to run or else
have push-button updates to fix them.
You try to buy a PC from Dell recently with XP installed.
I don't object so much to installing a new system on a new machine
because I normally keep my old ones running to cover anything that won't
work immediately. Once everything is running correctly though, there is
no excuse for breaking it and it should not be necessary to reinstall an
operating system for the life of the hardware.
I presume most of
the major manufacturers are the same. It's Vista or bust. Now lets see we had
Windows-98 Windows-nt Windows-2000 Windows-XP Windows-Vista all in the last
decade. That's not counting the home versions versus the professional
versions. Lots of these had incompatibilities.
You can find exceptions, but just about every third party program would
run across that set because the commonly used interfaces were
maintained. And if you expect a 5-year useful life for hardware, most
of those lasted that span with security updates once MS recognized the
need for them.
A chance ;-) XP-SP2 hasn't fixed XP problems why should Vista-SP2 be expected
to fix Vista problems.
What problems do you still see in XP or 2000+? My updated post-SP2
windows machines are as stable/reliable as anything running Linux. My
laptap sometimes gets into an odd state after many
standby/wakeup-on-a-different-wireless network operations but I haven't
been able to make that work at all under Linux for a comparison. I
haven't closely tracked the size/number of updates, but I'd guess that
there is more update churn in even the Centos5.x distro than a pre-vista
windows. That's not a completely fair comparison because of the
additional apps in the Linux distros, but a few years back I would have
promoted linux as the more stable choice.
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Les Mikesell
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