On 01/11/2010 16:49, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk wrote:
>> I am just waiting for the day that Olin has to upgrade his PC machines
>> and they insist on having Windows 7 to run the peripheral drivers.
> Vista and Windows 7 has actually held me back from getting a laptop.  Now
> that W7 has been out for a while we got one, and may get another for my u=
se.
> However that is apparently running a 64 bit version which you can't just
> install your own drivers on.
>
> I would have been quite happy if Windows development had stopped with XP =
and
> only continued for bug fixes and adding subsystems for newly invented
> hardware.  It seems Vista and Windows 7 are just new versions for the sak=
e
> of new versions, since MS makes money when people upgrade, not when they
> continue to run the old version.

100% agree.
But
My wife got new laptop last month with XP.
My son just bought a netbook today with XP (160Gbyte HDD).
my other son bought an insane Gamer Laptop with twin HDDs and Desktop=20
type CPU (even software controlled glowing orange edges). Win7 64bit. He=20
won't let anyone prise his old XP laptop from his hands, he uses it=20
still for non-gaming.

However you can still buy XP and it is supported I think till 2020 (tell=20
me I'm wrong, only if it's not yet 2020 and support has stopped).
The majority of Windows is still XP.
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