So who's staying XPut?

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Originally Posted by pc god

it doesnt seem to matter what os you use these days everything after windows 7 is garbage and everything before 7 was usable all the web based security and anitvirus malware scanners adware scanners all are bult on the same idea as they were in windows 95/98/me/2000/xp/7 you can hack one you can hack them all the dll files from win 98se are not so different to 7 its just the coding thats changed so staying 'xput" as its been dubbed is really not a bad idea its more stable than 8 has a better start menu uses less system resources than 8 seems like a sensible thing to do the updates stopping thingy dont matter because these system s run for years without a internet or a update in office blocks around the uk so being 'xput" is more cost effective no new licence required and still supprts near enough everything you need to play games write letters do facebook its only those who are played by a salesman or by there friends about having old pcs that will go buy the new stuff keeping up with the joneses some of us will carry on having our pcs not cluttered with rubbish start menus and "apps" that no one needs its take the people of the world 20 years to shorten the word applications to apps and there all programs and all said and done so if it takes 20 years to take 9 letters off a word i cant see how the new windows 8/10 can be right great fyi i have had 2 computers both with 8 on and xped them both was naff completely try running old dos based games that worked on 98 and you will see compatiblity mode does nothing see ya all laters im "xput" and proud

Impressive rant!

Assuming you don't intend to connect to a network, XP still runs as well as it ever did...

It is however a legitimate point that it can be hacked in ways Win7 cannot. That is the whole "patching" thing.

Personally I avoid the issue and upgade -- to linux, which is less resource-intensive than either version of Windows, has a much better Start Menu than XP (whoever decided to allow installers to install launchers willy-nilly should be shot, much better to have them register themselves as categories and leave the OS to sort it out), and up to date both in security and in feature design, and free to boot.