well, my Home PC (purchased 2009) still runs on Windows XP, with current sheduled retirement date of december 2015. After thaqt I will most likely adopdt a new OS.
You have a scheduled retirement date for your home computer?
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I think the adoption time of new operating systems is very slow in general. People usually don't care if the OS is outdated as long as it does the job. And there's also a common resistance attitude towards novelties (They Changed, Now It Sucks). Companies take even longer than individuals to change the OS of their computers, and many still use Windows XP, as new licenses cost money, the updates take work time, and the benefits are not clear for non-tech-savvy people. I use Windows 8.1, but I modded it to have a start menu. Hate Modern interface.
NOT THE BEES
Speaking as a professional web developer, fuck XP and only going up to IE 8. So, so many businesses are still running XP and refuse to upgrade, and that means you effectively have to support like 16 different rendering modes between 4 different IE versions — all of which are buggy as hell, and the ways you have to fix them are often mutually exclusive.
edited 14th Jan '15 4:05:28 PM by Pykrete
On this day, nothing was regretted.
2/3 of my school's computer labs still run XP. Thank god we have Chromebook carts.
Famous last words of many a kerbal: MOAR BOOSTERS!!!
My notebook and my old Compaq desktop still run XP. I'm thinking of changing both of them to Linux. I can't see the point of putting Windows 10 on either of them because they are old and tired.
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I switched to Debian years ago, but I have an "emergency computer" still running XP, is great for running games not available on linux, but I don't do much on it otherwise.
"No defiant last words, Dr. Jones?" "I like Ike"
I tend to hop between Linux and Windows 7/10 now, but as recently as January of this year I was still regularly using a Pentium 4 running Windows XP.
Win 7>>>>XP