Then they need to stop putting out computers with it. I bought my netbook from Verizon last fall and it has XP on it.
They have to realize that if they have a large customer base that uses it, they MUST support it. Period. Or give us a better alternative. ~ "Where love and magic meet" ~ http://www.adriannebrennan.com Experience the magic of the Dark Moon series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#darkmoon Dare to take The Oath in this erotic fantasy series: http://www.adriannebrennan.com/books.html#the_oath The future of psychic sex - Dawn of the Seraphs (m/m): http://www.adriannebrennan.com/dawnoftheseraphs.html On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > No, it's B.S. I've spent the last week fixing a lady's PC that was lousy > with infections, so bad they'd turned off Windows Firewall. I had to roll it > back from SP3 to SP2, then re-install SP3. I was amazed at how sparse and > hard to find the SP2 resources were on Microsoft's site. Also, while XP data > abounds at their site, there were obvious links all over the place trying to > direct one to Windows 7. I have Windows 7 on the PC I'm using now, and it's > great. But XP is the best OS they put out since Windows 2000--better, > even--and I see no reason to push people toward it. For those of us who have > to watch our money, for people for whom an upgrade to Windows 7 represents a > real financial struggle, XP is a godsend. I find it appalling at what > they're trying to do here. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Martin Baxter" <martinbaxt...@gmail.com> > To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 2:58:45 PM > Subject: [scifinoir2] Microsoft's Not-So-Secret Plan to Cripple Windows XP > > > > Microsoft isn't particularly pleased about the continuing success of > Windows XP, which has more than twice the installed base of Windows Vista > and 7 put together. So it's trying its hardest to kill the operating system > that won't die, including refusing to issue security patches for XP SP2, > putting many XP users at risk. Is that the right way to get people to > upgrade? > > More at: > http://www.pcworld.com/article/202612/microsofts_notsosecret_plan_to_cripple_windows_xp.html?tk=nl_wbx_h_crawl1 > > -- > "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell > wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > >
