Well as long as I have a machine that works or that can have xp I
won't be going up and if I do it will be 7 that I go to not 8.
Ofcause once xp stopps hardware manufacturers stop.
so no drivers for any new stuf.
Now right now thats probably not to bad, even if they stop next year
that does mean a lot of new stuff up to i7 etc will still have
minimal drivers for xp probably.
but don't hold your life on it.
my realtech card has not been updated since last year in june and
sure enough my toshiba laptops I am looking at now don't use realtech
cards and mostly intel ones.
So chances are if you want a system that was released up to june
2012 you will have realtech cards after that well.
It was the reason I moved from 98 among other things.
Well networking was the other thing.
At 01:14 AM 4/14/2013, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Well, while it is true Microsoft will discontinue updates and support
for XP next year I somehow think it won't go away immediately.
Remember a lot of blind users refuse to upgrade to Windows 7 or
Windows 8, and plan to stick with XP as long as possible. As a result
even though XP won't be an issue for Microsoft personally a lot of
developers like myself still may have to support the platform in order
to keep from losing sales by cutting those users off. There is always
a few years grace period between when a OS gets dropped and when the
majority of users actually get around to buying new computers with an
updated OS on it.
Take Win 98 for example. When I was developing STFC I got requests
clear up to 2006 to support Windows 98 even though the OS was 8 years
old, and was basically about to be dropped by Microsoft. I had to
point out to those users that because I was developing using .NET that
newer versions of .NET such as 3.0 and 3.5 would not run on Windows 98
and in order to support the platform I had to in effect go back to
using older releases of the .NET Framework which would not be in my
best interests just to support an out dated platform.
The point being is either because of lack of money or simple desire
not to change the V.I. community seems to be behind the mainstream
market, and don't upgrade as quickly even if it would be in their best
interests to do so. As a result even though XP might be dropped next
year I don't count on the fact the majority of V.I. users will run out
and buy new desktops and laptops with Win 8 on them. Eventually maybe,
but it will take a year or two before that happens. :D
Cheers!
On 4/12/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
> well maybe making them not exist would be a good thing.
> xp is due to die in the next 1 year from this month, in april next
> year xp support is due to die.
> the games work on vista and 7 aparently but need a bit to get them
> working and on 8 they don't even work at all aparently.
> so they were state of the art but now they are so simple and well
> outdated to put it politely that its not worth it.
> I have them from somewhere but on the update which I plan to do this
> or next year its likely that these will be among the software I delete.
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