On 04/23/2014 09:36 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 07:57 23/04/2014 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote:
... Ubuntu clearly states on its website when 12.04 support will
expire, so I know going in what I'm getting into. M$ gave me no such
warning when I purchased my XP machine years ago.
That's odd. You may want to bookmark
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle for future
reference. Apparently XP was originally intended to expire at the end
of 2011 - ten years after its release - but this was postponed in 2007
to this month. So whenever you purchased it, you would have expected
expiration either now or much sooner.
(Er, no: I am not taking sides. But I do like to see arguments being
based on evidence.)
Brian Barker
I think the real point is the MS is not providing a reasonable upgrade
for many users. Both in terms of cost and ease. Many with XP can not run
W8 at all and have three options: continue to use XP, replace the
computer which is still working, or replace the OS with a Linux distro.
Since most Linux distros are free, replacing XP with Linux is the
cheapest option and viable for many. Also, there is no direct upgrade
path from XP to W7 and I assume this is true for W8 also. Thus, XP has
to installed first then it is wiped out by the new OS which means all
the applications and data must be reinstalled (after first saving the
data).
Virgil noted he knew about the expiration of XP which is not the real issue.
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