In reply to a post by rogerfp:

Fair point. Its too easy to forget that we released XP on October 25th 2001. Only seems a few years ago.

"We"?

Sorry, slip of the tongue, used to work for MS when XP was launched.

Edited by deleted (Fri 27-Feb-15 20:44:39)

I thought you owned the company for a minute, Steve.

If only Steve, I'd be posting this from my private island somewhere or from my jet. Unfortunately, it's just from a house in Kent. C'est la vie.

Edited by deleted (Fri 27-Feb-15 20:59:57)

I was referring to Steve Ballmer who is still the largest shareholder in MS, I believe.

Very subtle, I missed that one.

In reply to a post by rogerfp:

Fair point. Its too easy to forget that we released XP on October 25th 2001. Only seems a few years ago.

Indeed, a great OS, but now quite dated. Yet a lot of users insist on using it for no sensible reason whatsoever.

Sorry, this was meant to be linked to Pipexer's last post re XP. Not concentrating - watching TV.
Indeed. It was a revolution at the time, combining the stability of NT/2000 and the usability of 98. A fairly difficult task. Up until then there had always been separate business and home OS's. NT platform pretty rock solid as no hardware could "talk" to the kernel so no good for gaming, 95/98 where hardware could "talk" to the kernel, which is why it crashed with BSOD's, protection errors etc. When you consider it was released in 2001 and not replaced until Vista in 2007 (pushed out too early before being ready in my opinion by the MS money men wanting to boost income). Not many OS stay around this long. Vista - 2+ years, 7 - 3 years, 8/8.1 - 3 years. As you say, now past its sell by date for most of us.

Edited by deleted (Sat 28-Feb-15 00:52:03)

Why pay for something newer that doesn't give anything extra for lots of users?

Do you buy a new car every 6 months because of newer innovations?

Edited by broadband66 (Mon 02-Mar-15 12:56:57)

I suppose Kent is close to France hence the French!