Time To Dump XP? 1213
An anonymous reader writes "Gartner is saying it's time to plan your migration now (if you havent already done it). I for one know my company still has loads of users still on XP, citing training costs (time and money) rather than software license fees. Is my company alone in wanting to stay in the 1990s or is Windows 7 the way forward?"
Time to change your OS to OSX or BSD (Score:5, Funny)
Just to get the ball started... yes, I agree... it is time to dump Windows XP and change to OS X or one of the BSDs or heck, even one of the mature Linux distributions like Ubuntu.
Moderators: start your engines... am I Flamebait, or am I Insightful? Informative or Offtopic?
Re:Time to change your OS to OSX or BSD (Score:5, Funny)
You are an insightful and informative flamebait who skewed off of the topic!
"...is Window 7 the way forward?" (Score:5, Funny)
Well, it's a way, but it may not be forward...
Re:XP is the 90's? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Gartner is shilling (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Pfff... (Score:4, Funny)
To be fair, the old keyboard was a basic 101 key model, and the new one had some media control(start, stop, pause, little volume knob) buttons on it.
The user was informed, as politely as shock allowed, that the function of each key on the new keyboard was the same as that of the old, save for the additional keys, whose use was optional, and not required for the performance of any job-related function.
You can't fix stupid... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Time to change your OS to OSX or BSD (Score:5, Funny)
Running XP? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm still on 2000, you insensitive clod! I'm planning to *upgrade* to XP in the next year or so. Provided my hardware can run it, that is. Everyone knows that XP is a resource hog. :)
Re:Time to change your OS to OSX or BSD (Score:4, Funny)
Apparently you are none of them, just Funny. Sorry.
yeah...that's a mod I was not expecting since my post was serious... change XP to OS X ...what's funny about that?
Re:XP is the 90's? (Score:2, Funny)
Because we don't have an "-1 Obvious" mod.
Although in this case it's both obvious and significant, so it's a little harsh.
Re:1990s? (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think anyone can confuse Windows XP with Windows ME. :-)
Re:1990's? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not only... (Score:5, Funny)
I had the same problem. It was "open source crap". So I did the natural thing. I installed it on the prettiest employee's desktop and within a week of her lauding this "Audacity thing" there were official requests to install it on any desktop that had to manipulate audio. We would be on Asterisk by now if she hadn't left.
Re:A redundant first post (Score:2, Funny)
BUt then most /. stories are redundant.
There, fixed that for you.
Re:1990s? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Back to the original subject... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:7 isn't the only choice (Score:1, Funny)
Re:1990s? (Score:3, Funny)
I used WinME back in the day... mostly because I got it for free from an MS employee.
Wow, they sure made a mess of that "the first hit is free" policy. That's like a cocaine dealer trying to get you hooked by giving you a free hit that's been cut with ground glass and lye...
Re:XP is productive (Score:1, Funny)
but were you pleasantly surprised?
Re:1990s? (Score:2, Funny)
As someone who purchased Windows ME to do their first Win install I can tell you that there is a massive difference, but IE is about as useful as it ever was.
Re:A redundant first post (Score:3, Funny)
I must be new here.
Re:Back to the original subject... (Score:3, Funny)
I work at a company that every reader of slashdot would know, and we are still using XP
You, Sir, work for Microsoft, don't you?
Re:Back to the original subject... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Upgrade... for what? (Score:3, Funny)
You beat me to it.
I've upgraded one machine to W7. Don't see much of a reason to upgrade the other. Aside from a few minor improvements, there really isn't all that much in W7 that is compelling. And in all the things that matter to me - user friendliness, software available, performance, in that order - it is just as bad as the other crap out of Redmond.
Yes, MS has put in incentives - IE8 (which I don't use), DX10/11 (which really doesn't make all that much of a difference so far) and probably a couple others.
It still doesn't handle misbehaving applications well, it is still obnoxious in everything it does (where is the "I know, you've told me 500 times, now fuck the fuck off and leave me alone!" button?) and the UI is at least as much an abomination as every other version.
Re:Dont know (Score:2, Funny)
Ill challenge the notion that end-users will need retraining. Have you tried to use anything under a Linux Desktop? There would not need to be any retraining as it works the same as the XP, 2000, etc. desktop.
Sure it does. If all you do is click on the little icon on the desktop. I hope you like tickets, because you are going to get a hell of a lot.
Of course he won't get a lot of tickets. He's not porting the icon users use to create tickets! (That would be crazy.)
Re:Back to the original subject... (Score:3, Funny)
Linux user here (so much for disclaimers)...
XP cold boots in under 2 minutes on... ehm... a very old Dell Pentium4 laptop with a horribly slow HDD. But maybe you are not only booting XP but also a whole cargo load of extra's along with it, like additional services, systray diver apps, potentialy malware (which you, of course, do not have because you have a virus scanner, right? *bonus points if you can see what I did here*).
Re:If ain't broke... (Score:3, Funny)
How safe do you feel driving your 1960s car down the freeway at 80 mph?
Good point. I'd have a hard time restraining myself to 80mph in a 1968 Camaro SS.
Re:Gartner is shilling (Score:3, Funny)
I bid one competent Python programmer in a beach house, 3 months.
Re:Back to the original subject... (Score:4, Funny)
Parent post incorrectly rated "Funny".
Should be rated "Insightful".