Interviewed by CNN on 30/04/2013 05:48, Ant told the world: > You know what's weird? I never have crashes in 64-bit W7 SP1, but do in > XP Pro. SP3. :( >
Not that weird. XP is in terminal life-support as it is, with the plug scheduled to be pulled April 2014. Microsoft simply does not bother to fix anything that is not a security issue or a really big showstopper nowadays. And in one year's time, not even that. If the new edition of the Flash plugin touches something in Windows that is revealed to be not as robust as it should be... well, tough luck for XP users. From Steve Ballmer's POV, they should be forking money to buy Windows 8 anyway, so anything that makes XP more annoying to use is not really a problem for him. There's this meme going around that XP is somehow "perfect as it is." Sorry to say, but it's simply not true. XP has numerous issues, some of them entrenched very deep in its basic architecture. I'm working on phasing it out from my customers, and good riddance -- every time I upgrade a machine from XP to Win7 (in the same hardware, mind you) support issues go down. If a machine is not good enough to run Win7, it is too old to keep in service anyway. (My rule of the thumb is "1 Gb RAM, dual-core CPU and 80 Gb HD" -- but I have obtained surprisingly good results even with half those specs) -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Nintendo Game Boy. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.17 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
