Keith,
Your attacks on this list are uncalled for. While Microsoft is no longer
providing new service packs for XP, it will be supported until 2020. By
that time, no one will have a reason to run it. However, many corporate
environments still require XP for many tasks. XP still receives security
updates and is a good fit for many people. It's more agile in many
cases, and if it still performs as users require, then there is
absolutely nothing wrong with that. Windows 7 is still a very new
technology. Many businesses are preparing upgrade paths now, and some
have switched already. However, operating system roll-outs take a lot of
planning, preparation, and resources. You can't arbitrarily assume that
everything will just magically work as before. What will be the total
cost to upgrade a corporation's IT infrastructure? How many licenses
need to be purchased? Will existing hardware support the transition? And
of course, will the upgrade improve the bottom line and increase
shareholder price? Right now, the answer to this last question is often
no. And if a company's bottom line won't improve because of a mass
upgrade to Windows 7, then it simply won't happen.
With that said, I use Windows 7 on all of my machines at home. My past
jobs required XP, however, and I still keep a virtual machine configured
with XP loaded in case a client is using that operating system. Despite
your name calling and high and mighty attitude, XP is not going to
disappear over night.
Steve
On 8/19/2010 12:49 PM, Keith Hinton wrote:
First, I believe that calling me an idiot or insisting that you all
are idiots for using XP, is totally uncalled for.
Am I suggesting that you are wrong in your judgment? The answer is a
resounding Yes! WindowsXP is for those older generations of people who
dair I insist, cannot, give up the gost of the old.
I will make a point to mention this.
If GW Micro, Doug and everyone including Aaron Smith stayed on XP all
there lives, No one would benifit. Window-Eyes would not be supporting
the 64-bit versions of Windows.
And No matter what you say about Windows Seven, I think that the
claims of if it is unstable are all a part of old computer hardware.
Face it all your XP users out there.
You must, upgrade.
Not complying will only be yoru downfall. Once your corperate servers
and machines are slammed with over 1000000 trogens and worms you will
be forever locked in an operating system that will be the domain of
hackers.
As for Internet Explorer 9 wich will not be for XP, check out the Serotalk blog.
But I do not think that Microsoft will be doing make believe cut-off points.
When an operating system is deemed as being in extended support, it is
indeed just that.
Window-Eyes itself, must not be tested on 32-bit platforms. 32-bit
itself will dye one of these days.
I happily will predict in the next several years the death of the X86
32-bit platform entirely. Or at least for those cmoptuers that do not
have 4GB plus of RAM.
It will not be long until operating system minimal requirements will
be at a 4GB plus minimal amount of RAM, wich means that all computer
users who wish to not be in the stone ages of XP and 2000, wich has
already lost support, I might point out to those who are not going to
admit this publicly, and on the archives of GW Info as such,
technology is not waiting for any man or woman to make decisions on
computer hardware!
Face it!
Xp, is already dead.
All that keeps it alive are the rusty users who cling to it as blind
fools! Yes, each and every one of you Window-Eyes users who refuse to
upgrade your computers are blinded fools indeed!
Do you think Microsoft cares about making Windows XP an existing
target for those who absolutely cannot live without it?
No!
Microsoft has it right, GW Micro has it right.
Move on with the new, forget the passed.
Leave it behind, I say! Drop the DCM drivers.
What is the piont GW Micro, or anyone else for that matter, of
continuing to support an old, screwd up interface, that wasn't even
worth the time to design it in the first place?
DCM is old. Face it. Admit it. Accept it and move on with your lives.
If none of you on this list can accept that for better or wworse XP
the last cludge of an operating system with old technology DCM drivers
and all the wonderful lovely applications you love, is dying already
and has been for years, well then I'm really sorry to watch you folks
sit there and moan like little kids.
Do you believe my opinion is worth so little? Then I ask you.
Who is right? Who is wrong?
Let GW Micro dictate that. Let there continuation of Windows 64-bit
support prove my very words on this thread today in front of everyone
of you!
Open your eyes and see the light, you XP dye hards!
If you folks do not upgrade sooner or later, you will regret it.
I can prove that to each and every one of you who have something against me.
And if you do, take it off list to me directly.
Thanks!
The one who just posted before me is right ot support me on this!
I'll see if I can get Aaron to back my points up with proveable facts
regarding Window-Eyes development, and the movnig on of technology and
leaving XP behind is something that GW Micro soon will have to do.
They will be forced, if they wish to remain in business supporting
future operaing systems.
Aaron, Doug, what do you folks think?
XP is dying.
Accept, or deny it.
No chioce exists for anyone at all, no matter what they may state
beyond what I have said.
Prove me wrong, black and blue, otherwise if you can.
I doubt you will be able to convince me otherwise. And I extend this
challenge to every single one of you GW Micro staff members to back me
up, or to dny what I have pointed out.
And do not discount what I have taken the time to write.
I do not appreciate that.
Thank you.
On 8/19/10, Pat Ferguson<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Mike,
I sure agree with everything you are saying here.
I'm using Windows Seven Home Premium 32 Bit with very few problems,
and I don't lock up any more than I did with XP. I love Windows Seven.
I wouldn't go back to XP now.
Even though Window-Eyes does go away some times, I still love it, and
always will.
I hated Vista, and I'm loving Windows Seven with the loving Window-Eyes.
We're slowly upgrading all our nine machines here, but it will be an
expensive one, since we have to buy a copy for each computer, just
like we did XP.<smile>
That's just life, and I'mnot going to complain.
We have so much to be thankful for. Just think, where would we be
without all this cool technology?
Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
At 10:45 AM 8/19/2010, you wrote:
Hi. I am either going insane, or I will reach that point concerning this
thread. I didn't start using Window-eyes until version 3.0 came out and
had
Windows 98 at that time. Operating systems come and go and we have to try
our best to go with the flow. Maybe I am getting the wrong impression, but
some folks are coming across like they will be lost without XP. While XP
has established itself as a mature and stable operating system, it will,
unfortunately, for those who have gotten used to it, die just as Windows
98,
95, 3.1, well, you get the idea, did.
I upgraded a computer I hadfrom Windows M E to XP, and one of the people I
knew loved his computer games. When the games would not work with XP, the
person acted like he was going to go into spasms. In other words, how dare
I do such a thing!
For those who like Windows XP, make the best of it, enjoy it while you can.
Yeah, Vista was indeed a bomb as Chris Hill said, but where would we be in
the days of Windows 3.1 now. I suspect we would be in nowhere land.
Keith, you are so-o right indeed. Windows 7 is going to replace Vista and
XP. And, you're already commenting on Internet Explorer 9 and Windows 8?
I
must not be reading the right publications or I'm missing certain
technology
news, smile. My brother still uses a dial up connection. Nobody could
pay
me enough to use a dial up connection. I can't wait to get rid of my
clunky
cassette machine. The newer digital technology has been a blessing.
Don't get me wrong; I liked XP when I had it. Window-eyes works very well
with XP. The worst experience I have had was upgrading from Vista to 7
because Window-eyes just would not work very well with Windows 7. A
reformat of my desktop hard drive fixed a lot of problems. Thanks.
Mike M. .
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