It never stops to amaze me how many factories still depend on win-xp (yes, win-xp!). It was always too expensive to upgrade the apps and machines. By now many will never happen anymore because now it's a multi-step upgrade and cost even more. And STILL they expect 2025 type, level and quality support.
'2016. The computer was offline and connected to a machine.
Are we including the server editions because if so it was an exchange 2003 server I killed in 2019.
Pretty much anybody reading this still uses XP at least weekly if not daily.
It's still all over the place, ATMs, gasoline pumps, ticket machines, kiosks, ect, ect...
Some of you may even be sitting in a room with XP right now and not even realize it.
You may have forgotten it, but it is still there, waiting, watching, ready blue screen for just no reason at all.
Thanks to Crowdstrike I know that at least the checkouts in shops and some ATMs here use Windows 8 or newer, because of the new blue screen design (don't remember if they had the QR code, which would mean at least Windows 10)
I nearly installed WinXP on an old piece of shit all-in-one computer (old celeron, 2gb ram, very slow hdd), but the CPU was too new to be supported. Installed Mint instead.
One day you turned off a Linux Distro for the last time and didn't even notice
I don’t ever turn off my Linux machines. They turn off when the power goes out, and that’s about it.
If you use Arch or Nix, every day is that last day. One day you disembarked the Ship of Theseus for the last time and didn't even notice.
Jokes on you, my distro hopping goes full circle every couple of months
No, it was when I got out my old high school computer to mess around with it and go "oh yeah" for a little bit. That was the last time I shut down Windows XP.
I did it with joy, because I used it for a few days to implement and test an SMBv3 to v1 Bridge (fuck Trumpf for using embedded XP and using SMB for pulling blueprints, forcing the use of SMBv1), and it (as well as the Windows Server) was hell compared to Pop I was using at the time.
Bold assumption
For my main comp this was actually from Vista RC something - I had enough RAM & it didn't give me any compatibility issues (like Millennium before XP on my gaming rig, bcs manufacturer sux at drivers).
I never really liked XP ... I know, Im sorry!!
I loved that it brought gaming to NT-ish stability tho.
(Then again Windows classic theme rullz. Tho the og Aero was nice at the time.)
So true...
Was sometime in January 2009, switched to Linux.
It's probably been a few months for me. If I could remember where I put that laptop.
Has not happened yet. I keep a copy around in a VM for old games.
reminds of the poor xp vms ;). I still have disk images somewhere I believe.
(never used xp on a hardware personally though)
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