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-- GSH

Wow. Definitely the end of an era... I wonder if this is when the rumoured windows 8 release date will emerge.

yep. Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't there a lot of ranting about XP's problems
when it was first released? I suppose that is common. Same thing happened with
Win7. You never know what will pop up until the OS gets into the hands of millions of
users.

Sad, a classic operating system at lasts falls to the march of time.

Give me Win2kSP4 or give me death.

Do you prefer guilluetine, firing squad, gallows, or lethal injection.

Hmm let me see, the number of times I used "support" while it was available = 0
Somehow I don't think its loss is going to trouble me too much. If it does Ill buy a Mac!

The 'support' that MS provides is this: security updates in case of griefers trying to take over your system remotely. I bet you'd be surprised how many times this has helped you. Without your knowledge. MS patches aren't like a commercial firewall that pops up a message saying "look, I kept that griefer out. Aren't I cute?" Instead, it's the silent doing of the right thing when bad data arrives.

-- GSH

Heh, 98SE hasn't given me any problems at all yet

(Then again, my laptop isn't connected to the internet)

how will I activate xp on my old computer every month? and updates? man, it's like they WANT me to use linux...

I believe you can still get the updates and activate an XP system, they just won't provide more updates to fix any breaks.

Microsoft wants you to use Windows 7 (or Windows 8 when it comes out in late 2012 probably) which is the latest OS right now. Of course, you can use Linux if you wish, up to the person. I use Linux Mint Debian Edition myself and a couple Android systems (for those that don't know, yes, Android is based on a Linux kernel), and I've played around with various other distros.

I 'got into' linux a few years ago, downloaded about 30gb of distros, liked Mint and kubuntu, got lost with all the 'in-depth' console commands, and a little less than a year ago was going through LFS... it's alright, but I guess I'm just too lazy to get real deep into it...

I only recently got into Linux commandline, and I've still got a ways to go, but definitely learning as I go along. Its intimidating at first, but I think once you really get into it, its pretty powerful in its own right.

Josiah wrote:

how will I activate xp on my old computer every month? and updates? man, it's like they WANT me to use linux...

oh, it wasn't really that serious. I know how to take care of my computer...

on a totally unrelated note, antiwpa is a really neat dll...