Ten years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse

Re:Ten years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse by testz3453 on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @04:58PM (#3155854)

I will use Windows XP for another 5 years - until new software and hardware will stop working on XP.

Windows 7 GUI is 5 times slower than XP and has bugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay-gqx18UTM (Windows 7 GUI slowness) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToFgYylqP_U (Windows 7 GUI slowness: file explorer)

Windows 7 uses 5 times as much resources: XP: 233MHz, 64MB RAM, 1.5 GB. 7: 1GHz, 1GB RAM, 16 GB.

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Re:Ten years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse by redthrowaway on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @07:02PM (#3156278)

1 GHz, 1 GB RAM, and 16 GB HD are micenuts. You couldn't buy less than that if you tried. Hell, you could run it on a phone.

Windows 7 is faster and much, much nicer on any computer made in the last 2-3 years. I'm not a Windows fan by any means, but choosing to run XP over 7 in 2011 is incomprehensible.

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Re:Ten years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse by noarchy on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @08:53PM (#3156618)

Today's high end smartphones are more powerful than the last machine on which I ran XP. Vista ran like a bloated pig, but Win 7 seems to be the sweet spot, much like XP was in its time.

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Re:Ten years of Windows XP: how longevity became a curse by eropple on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @09:23PM (#3156707)

Vista wasn't bad after SP1 or so.

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