Comments for: Microsoft to keep supporting XP until 2014

#17. Posted at 02:11 PM on Jun 27th 2008

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Saber Cherry

Microsoft to keep supporting XP until 2014

Business to keep supporting Microsoft until 2014

#1. Posted at 06:57 AM on Jun 25th 2008

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Mystic-G

This isn't exactly the newest of news but i'm sure some still didn't know.

Can someone explain to me how the downgrade program works? I keep reading about a loophole in Vista that allows people to downgrade to XP (legally) but I never understood how people went about doing that.

#1, join the dark side and find out you will .... yarrr : mad dog (#6) «

#1, From what I've read, you must have Vista Business or Ultimat... : stmok (#15) «

#1, With downgrade rights, the way I've seen it is the machine c... : indeego (#16) «

#8. Posted at 11:28 AM on Jun 25th 2008, Edited at 11:15 PM on Jun 25th 2008

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MarioJP

I wounder about people sometimes. Anyways I remember when XP first came out and people refused to upgrade. Now with SP1 alot of issues has been addressed. The moral to this story folks is never buy a product that just been released. I am having no Issues with vista. And fact i got rid of my XP partition and not looking back.

#8, I have a problem which I call "competing uses of money", whi... : ludi (#10) «

#10, Same here. I don't upgrade because: (1) everyone else is d... : stmok (#14) «

#8, I waited until 98SE to upgrade from 95, SP2 to upgrade to Wi... : axeman (#12) «

#8, I can't use Vista because the explorer interface is quite si... : AbRASiON (#13) «

#4. Posted at 07:23 AM on Jun 25th 2008

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indeego

This is why businesses stick with Windows. This gives them a lot of flexibility, a stable platform for so many years. I think Vista has reached a turning point where businesses can start to migrate with confidence, but that is expensive, so why bother?

From a sysadmin standpoint, I stuck with XP for my users because the only real thing Vista gives me is troubleshooting tools that rival XP's. We won't be downgrading for future purchases after July 1, however...

#4, Being a SysAdmin for a "large government agency" we have dec... : Shinare (#9) «

#4, I wish we'd move to Vista at my Guard unit. It's a pain in t... : A_Pickle (#11) «

#2. Posted at 07:05 AM on Jun 25th 2008

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pogsnet

Most laptops now dont have accurate drivers for Windows XP namely HP laptops. =(

Accurate => dirvers posted for windows xp in website does not work in actual.

#2, I have a laptop that HP hasn't posted proper Vista drivers f... : indeego (#3) «

#3, Try modifying the official drivers to recognize your mobi... : Shining Arcanine (#5) «

#3, Hey indeego, I had something very similar happen here at w... : Logdan (#7) «