When XP came out, I moved to 2000, and stayed there right up until my Pentium II machine made the switch from Windows to Linux, in 2009. That depends on your perspective, I suppose. It sucked when it came out in 2001 and barely improved (except in security thanks to SP2 and SP3). The obsession with XP doesn’t make any sense. Its one and only advantage is its start menu (well, OK, its lack of ribbons too) and those can be fixed with software in Windows 8, which gets you a better overall experience to the native Win7 experience whilst giving you, among other things, lighter resource use, better battery optimisation, hibernation, networking, memory management … IMNSHO people only “Love” Windows 7 because they “Hated” Vista–which is weird, because by SP2 Vista was pretty damned all right, and was only being let down by Microsoft and their desire to make up for their past failures on an overpriced service pack. I think Win7, compared to 8.1, is fussy and mediocre and in fact this is very evident out of the box. Why not Windows 7? It’s closer to XP in terms of familiarity while being a lot better out-of-the-box. But continuity of other systems should be respected. I have a Windos7 for more recent technologies and applications. Besides, I use to safely keep the installers of software versions that fit well in my system, just for in case. As long as their installer for older versions does not phone home to get blocked from there, like paternalistic Pale Moon’s does, I don’t mind them to evolve. It does not suddenly become junk when they decide, mind that during more than a decade it has been touted by the same people as the nose of the salmon.īut as I understand the article, Mozilla seems to be the best of the class to this respect.Īnd at least they have a tradition of keeping older versions available for redownload if needed. While I understand that technology evolves and gives newer and wider possibilities, I hate companies that abruptly inhibit you from continuing to work on a system that runs fine and is completely set to your needs. I am affected in the sense that I deliberately keep using my XP.
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