The end isn't that near at all.
The end is approaching for Windows XP… in 2014. The already decade-old operating system is still the main base for much of the world's PCs, despite Microsoft's efforts to hold those users away from Internet Explorer 9 (though the latest Firefox and Chrome work just fine) and the other latest Microsoft software.
In its latest push, Microsoft has made and published "Windows XP End of Support Countdown Gadget" – essentially a desktop gadget with a countdown clock until the classic OS is no longer supported.
Microsoft gives it the following overview: "Looking to get off Windows XP? Use this handy gadget to count down the number of days until Windows XP End of Support (EOS) in 2014."
The desktop gadget, however, is only supported by Windows Vista and Windows 7, which makes it somewhat puzzling as such users have obviously eradicated Windows XP from that particular system.
Still, it's a good daily reminder of just how many days left until Windows XP is off the map. Download it from Microsoft here.
Otherwise I would just stay with WinXP, or move to iOS!
May be because it works and cand do everything we need?
I hate it that when you use the open file dialogue, programming in .net, that you can't specify what kind of view you want (details, icons etc), and how you want to order it... and even if you can't do that, the fact that the OS does not remember what the user chooses is worse...
They could have used that money fixing that, rather than something that is so utterly pointless it's not even funny, it's depressing...
When I think about it, the only thing about the Win 7 start menu that is really any better is the search, which is taken from Vista. Everything else is eye candy.
First, its not a "start" menu anymore... just a "windows button" menu, second: Who seriously uses the thing? One thing I learned from the disappearance of the classic menu is that even if it was better than the new one, using none at all was much faster!
and Of course, XP must go now...
and win7 isn't? then go back to use your 98, better yet, go back to use DOS, its bl00dy stable right? dumb%%$#%$s
Please grammar already.
Hey Microsoft, stop screwing with the GUI and work on making the OS as stable and fast as possible! If I wanted a MAC, I'd buy a MAC.
I'm sure there are people that like Windows 7, but the reality remains, it doesn't do anything that Windows XP doesn't. Except it does it slower, and it does it with greater memory usage.
At the end of the day, people don't really care too much about the OS, but about the applications it runs. There are big advantages in support and development with one OS, instead of constantly coming out with new ones. Every change has the possibility of causing problems, so that's why a lot of places want to stay on XP. It does everything they need, runs faster, and runs without potential compatibility issues. It's why even service packs have to wait a while; SP2 broke a lot of stuff.
Also, the cattle that keep saying XP is very old forget that SP2 was a huge change from SP1; much bigger than going from Windows 2000 to Windows XP was.
So, there are reasons for people to like both. My biggest issue with all of it is, the short life spans of the OS. Windows 7 will be replaced fairly soon, with Windows 8, and so on. It's not so hard for the unemployed folks here who love Microsoft, but when you're supporting so many different OS's, it becomes more difficult.
But, Microsoft does this to make money, not to make people's lives easier. The world really needs a stable OS platform, not changes every two years that have the potential to break something. A longer life span would still allow innovation (although, Microsoft has a genetic defect that prevents this from happening, but fortunately they CAN copy other's innovations), while still not creating a support nightmare as they keep adding more. We'll soon have four OS's to support, with all their little differences. What a pain.