On 12/14/10 2:54 AM, Gerard Cunningham wrote: > On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 19:48 -0500, John Culleton wrote: > > >> Commercial users of Windows resisted pleas to upgrade(?) to Vista. >> Many bought new computers with Vista on preinstalled and refitted those >> computers to Windows XP for compatibility and ease of inhouse support. >> That is the real world. Dropping XP support and testing but retaining >> Vista support is a bad idea. > XP is just about hanging in there for legacy reasons, but Vista is > dying. Users are upgrading to Win7 from Vista and XP. Win7 actually > works, surprisingly (or at least, it works compared to Vista). > >
See http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?alpha=Windows+XP . Its gone end-of-life, apart from on NetBooks and Windows 7 downgrade options to XP. Really, I think we should only support Windows 7. XP is old, ugly, has a million bugs and plenty of security issues. Vista was just a big old mistake in its earliest versions. In its latest versions, it is actually quite ok on the right hardware. Windows 7 will easily beat XP and Vista in my experience in performance (even on 3-4 year old hardware with reasonable spec) and usability, as well as security. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 259 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20101214/9d8cc748/attachment.pgp>
