Time to leave XP?

[MikeH1]

I just upgraded my main PC to Win 7 64 bit, only because I'm having to support more PCs with Vista and 7, so need to learn it. Otherwise I still have XP on one desktop and my laptop.

XP is solid, especially compared with the last few releases (ME, Win95 original release, etc). And, as is usual with Microsoft, as soon as you get used to one desktop layout, they hit you with another one.

[erik_26]

I loved XP, but I did beta testing on Windows 7 and fell in love. I have since upgraded to Windows 7 64-bit and have not looked back.

Solid State Hard Drive
Intel Dual Core
4 gb ram
Nvidia 8800 GTX

[meaty-btz]

I hate XP with a passion. Not because there is anything really wrong with it, other than its age.

It is the thorn in my side and its random bug-outs are maddening and time wasting. This perspective comes from being personally responsible for more than 1200 machins at more than 5 locations. Maintaining XP is hell on earth. It is prone to all sorts of strange behaivors and half baked enterprise systems from back in the day. I would, and do take, Vista over XP. Windows 7 being the prefered platform. Overall, vista is easier to deploy and maintain than XP is, now. That is also an artifact of running XP in a 2008 Domain. XP, Server 2k3, and older pre-SATA machines coexist in relative harmony and joy. The fact is, XP is old, out of date and frankly a load of junk compaired to the reliabillity and recovery abillity of windows 7.

My perspective being born of enterprise life, is vastly different from home. If you have anything legacy, stick with XP. Hybrid environments are hell. Either keep it all legacy or get all new. Crossing Decades is a recipe for disaster and torment.

[freonr22]

desktop w/ xpr pro. good
desktop w/ vista ultimate 64 (did not need the 64, but when you buy it you have a choice and just arbitrarily picked 64) good
laptop cheapy cap w/ win 7 64 good

never had issues with any of the 3
like the win 7 feel

[NSR500]

Oh Bollocks!

After more research it looks like a lot of hoops to get BluRay movies to play on Linux. I might just have to hang in with the XP build on this machine a bit longer.

[badfish2]

I've been running Vista for a couple years now on the same clean install without a problem at all, this wasn't an OEM install either. I never did understand what anybody was complaining about.

[AAShooter]

I guess I should move on from ME then.

[orchard]

I have Win7 32 and 64 bit desktops,
2008 R2 server running in a VM,
32 bit Vista,
XP Professional on a laptop

Drivers! If you have old printer/scanner/etc. need to keep XP. I need old driver to support my wife's sewing machine :-)

[automatikdonn]

Ubuntu all the way

Sever 08 R2 is really gonna tax that machine. I have quad core, on 4g of ram and it was rough on my machine.

Ubuntu all the way. I use it every day, super fast and no problems with the basics.

[automatikdonn]

Macbuntu

Sever 08 R2 is really gonna tax that machine. I have quad core, on 4g of ram and it was rough on my machine.

Ubuntu all the way. I use it every day, super fast and no problems with the basics.

And if you wanna make the Mac guys jealous, give Macbunutu a try... Just a sweet theme/gui, but its worth the time...

[JDay]

My home computers are all XP and are rock solid, until something comes along that won't run on XP I don't see a need to change them.

I had a laptop for two+ years that ran Vista and never had a problem.

My new laptop has 7, so far not too bad but I do notice that some of my programs have issues because of the 32/64 issue.
Franky I've been considering taking the laptop back from Win7 64 to Win7 32, 64 is nice but there are relatively few programs that can use it and many 32 programs have problems.
The benefit to 'cost' ratio does not add up in 64 bit's favor.

What programs are you having issues with? I have yet to have any 32 bit programs refuse to run on 7, the only programs that may have issues are older "legacy" apps, and you can just run those in XP mode.

[JDay]

I have Win7 32 and 64 bit desktops,
2008 R2 server running in a VM,
32 bit Vista,
XP Professional on a laptop

Drivers! If you have old printer/scanner/etc. need to keep XP. I need old driver to support my wife's sewing machine :-)

XP Mode in Windows 7 will let you install XP drivers.

Sever 08 R2 is really gonna tax that machine. I have quad core, on 4g of ram and it was rough on my machine.

Which edition did you install? That is likely the problem.

[Iknownot]

I'm still running XP on a P4 PC. Runs everything just fine, but I am using it for word processing, internet and other basic computing.

It runs similarly to my newer machines running Vista and 7.

Frankly, I never much understood what the hullabaloo was between XP, Vista and 7, with regards to a regular home/office PC user like me. (I have friends that were power users or admins, so I heard why they did not favor Vista).

In any case. XP was the first MS OS that I felt was truly decent. I never had a problem with Vista. I found it just as stable and it ran basically the same as XP for me, at least.

Win 7, I feel is a tad faster than Vista, in some respects, but overall is basically the same.

I'm talking about every day, basic computing on a PC. I never much saw the difference between any of the 3 OS's. They have all worked fine for me. I'm running one of each between the 3 PC's I use, and I don't feel any real love or hate for one PC or the other, depending on which OS I am using at the time.

I guess I should move on from ME then.

Don't get me started on ME. I bought an HP pavilion that came with ME and it blue screened out of the box, on start up. ME was, hands down, the worst OS I have ever used and I've used 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7, Ubuntu, various Mac OS's like 7, 8, and 9 etc.

The HP would lock up all the time, and I wasn't doing anything besides internet and word processing on it. It was ridiculous.

The best thing I ever did with that HP, was load XP on it. The second XP was running on the machine, I never had an issue with it again, and that was with using all the same programs on the machine. It is ridiculous how bad ME sucked.

[NSR500]

Windows ME did suck very much!

[johnny_22]

XP Pro for home and work

Wife is right now doing the Windows 7 conversion (by buying a new laptop). One engineer here has switched to Windows 7 (again with a new laptop). All others are Windows XP Pro, Windows 2k, or Windows 95/98.

We need compatibility with specialized engineering software, and Windows 7 had one incompatible software already.