Java by far.

Oracle waited for a year to pit in a patch for +100 exploits!! Yes you should be arrested for running that in your browser.

Wrong. Your customers and customers customers decide when you don't support your OS and ancient version of IE.

XP still has more daily users than all of Macosx and will continue to be used for another decade. Just because update isn't supported anymore doesn't mean the average IE 8 user who doesn't know what a browser even is will stop using it until the machine no longer turns on.

He will think you suck and not his platform

DirectX 12 will cut CPU usage in half similar to Mantle for ATI systems.

Your system if it is a low end cpu will benefit greatly from this.

No it won't.

It is free. Only the subscriptions are the add-ons like OneDrive, domain support, Azure, etc. MS will include a year for free if you upgrade from Windows 7 or 8.1 for the 1st year. Then you decide if you want to continue these add on services.

Calm down folks.

My boss watched the whole thing. He told me subscriptions are for service add ons like Onedrive, Security essentials, domain and azure support for small business etc.

So they are freebies for 1 year but to keep using them you need to subscribe. So it stays free if you do not care about these or your Onedrive is still there at 1 TB if you have an office 365 subscription.

This makes sense. Cheap bastards like us wont pay so we win. Corporations love renting software contrary to opinion here as accounting tricks to raise the share price need to keep spikes on expenses down. Remember it is by the quarter for the enterprise guys so renting it out is more expensive it will still give the accounts and the CEO his raise by having his ratios match Wall Street expectations.

This makes sense too as business users are willing to pay for support too and do not want to be data mined and will not buy crap from the appstore either.

I think these XP users are dumb. No not all as some who love it reading this am thinking I am not a troll. I am not but the average non slashdotter who is the least savory with computers are scared of them. They do not know what an update is or what an OS is. It is the computer. These are the vast majority of the remaining XP users and some hospitals with cheap ass IT departments.

Those who are even just regular users know systems age after a few years and have moved on from XP many years ago.

Or I am thinking EOL would mean 100% kill. You login and system says subscription expired. Whole system locked and choice is to throw it out or subscribe to a newer OS

Fun for embedded devices and scada. Lol

Spartan has a very cleaned out trident engine. So much so it is a new fork without baggage and much faster.

It can't run legacy code. MS has old engine for corporate sites and loads a tab of IE 11.

IE is not the piece of cap it was last decade. Spartan is much needed as why should quirks mode slow down porting html 5.1 features

Right because 10 year old linux apps are 100% compatible due to the standard Linux ABI ... oh wait

For this reason we do not run Linux at work.

IE 6 is the deface standard for corporate America for 10 years. What else should it run on? Name one standard compliant browser with more than 5% market share for the first part of last decade?

Thsee apps related people to save money. They go down then people do not get paid, supplies do not get ordered, contacts can't be signed, etc. They CAN'T be replaced. They have business logic that is custom with macros tailored just to the business. It must always stay the same and never change. What is wrong with you all?

Funny I moved them to server 2003 with Citrix for access. Problem solved ... until now.

I am leaning towards keeping the VMs off the Web so users can use them forever.

Really you or your boss should be fired for running XP. If you do credit card processing you are breaking the law too.

Yeah with SystemD. Gee where do we sign up?

Doesn't help if server 2003 sole purpose is to run IE 6.

MS forced it off the desktops with EOL for XP through what some would say extortion.

Server 2003 has IE 6 and with citrix can run due to quirks mode hacks to get it to display at all. So now what? Upgrading is not acceptable. You positively absolutely can never upgrade apps that are the business process which store data in a proprietary format

Good thing 15.04 is switching to SystemD

Uses systemD like upstart.