Well the time we have all been….Hmmm…Ok, come Monday Microsoft will have put the virtual final nail in the coffin of XP inspite of the protest of 200k people who signed a petition to keep it going. The good news though is that XP will continue to be supported until 2014 - you just wont be able to buy it off the shelves or get it on a new computer.

So what do we really think of this situation and even more so, based on a previous article that was written over a year ago when Vista was originally release? Well, XP is still running on the laptop that came with Vista that time and to this date there has been no issues with it. Still humming, no crashes, all the applications work, it has 3rd party anti-X, firewall, latest drivers and security patches, etc. All is well there.

Couple weeks ago a new laptop came my way and of course it’s running Vista since XP is no longer being sold. This laptop is running 3gigs of RAM so Vista would be crazy to complain. It’s one year later with Vista SP1 released and tonnes of drivers and application updates that weren’t available at the time. So my applications do work this time around (albeit I had to do some searches via my favorite search engine to get some of them to work but hey…they are working). So what’s the verdit? Has my mind changed? Do I still think Vista sucks? Will I downgrade? To answer that question I will say……Not sure. Why? Well currently I am not doing EVERYTHING as yet that I did with XP so I will give it a month or so and see how it goes. What’s my recommendation? I really don’t see the need to change your operating system from XP to Vista at this time. There really isn’t a compelling reason really. If you are purchasing a new computer then that makes sense - try it and see if it works for you. If not there is always XP (hey…copies will be available for a time..so don’t worry about where you will get it) and Linux.

The article below and the comments made by the second guy in favor of XP pretty much covers some of my thinking. Have a read and let us know what you think.

Source: abcnews

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