Do you think it is fine for people still using XP?

I bet some people will use XP as their main until it dies out completely, which is a great thing increasing the population of the operating system that won't be there soon increases the chances of a better future.
 
Nahh.... but seriously I think enough people use XP now that it will more than help if the XP's popularity increases. Windows 7 and the future of all the operating systems of the future will eventually turn XP into just that operating system that fought and won for some much time. The point is that XP should be alive much longer that people are making it sound like.
 
Yea, i think Microsoft should see how the release of windows 8 is, if its bad, keep supporting xp if its good.. they might have to move on 🙁
 
Sadly they do, they need to make a change to Windows 8 or else the release of Windows 8 probably won't help Microsoft at all. Hopefully Windows 9 and so on also increases the popularity of XP. Releasing operating systems alike to Windows 8 but that doesn't do anything besides prevent XP from completely dying.
 
Windows 8 should just be a tablet/touch screen pc OS then there should be another version for normal PCs
 
The good thing about XP is that it can be generally faster with anything new that pops up. It can easily adapt to any new hardware you have. For as long as the new hardware releases can still support XP, it will still be used.

People may only stop using XP when they see that most software application can't be run in the old OS. This is when migration is driven from XP.
 
Yes, but then again most compatibility hasn't been lost yet, so I think XP is probably going to stay for a while.
 
I don't think it's a problem, especially for libraries and work computers where the companies just don't update too often.
My school library, public library and my job all still use XP and an old version of IE.
 
All my school computers are Macs.

Yikes. Actually, I'm using Windows XP right now even though I have a Winodws 7 computer.
 
It's definitely out dated, but I suppose it does still work.

My high school still used XP on all it's computers except for one computer lab which just got Win7 this past year. Supposedly they're getting all new computers for teachers, all labs, etc. with Win7 this coming year, but who knows.
 
I think it is perfectly ok to use XP, I have it on 2 of the 3 computers that I have. I already tried Windows 8 and I do not like it at all. I probably will be using XP until it is will beyond it's death.
 
Windows XP support is ending in 2014 sometime.

Without the patch updates, it makes it more vulnerable.
Up to user really. Windows 7 OEM copies sell for $90 - 100. That's pretty cheap for Windows.
 
Yeah, it's sad to see such a great operating system go, but I guess after these many years and operating system needs to go. =/ Simple as that. Some of the computers in the house still use it. XP will always have a special place in my heart, considering I used it from the time I started computing to 2011. That's quite some years. 😛
 
Porlbme with XP is that support for it will expire in a couple years meaning that it would become significantly insecure to use and not to mention, that it lacks alot of dependencies that software use in later versions of Windows so, software developers may start dropping it in favour of later systems.
 
There's computers at my work that still use Windows 2000. I thought I got shafted when I saw my computer had XP.
 
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