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On 13-June-2015 7:02 PM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
> Max <max@val.morgan> wrote:
>> "Computer Nerd Kev" <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:mlfsc1$86s$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>> Max <max@val.morgan> wrote:
>>>> You don't get any updates with XP which includes security updates.  How
>>>> can
>>>> you be happy with that?
>>> Easy, I don't care. GIMME YOUR WORST, WORLD!
>>>
>>> Actually it's even worse than you think - I'm running the original XP, no
>>> Service Packs. I never updated anything, except perhaps what was required
>>> for the DirectX version I need (and I maxed that out years ago anyway,
>>> attempts with later versions crash the installation wizard).
>> Any reason why you have to use XP and not Win 7 or 8 ?
> Well I haven't got a copy of anything later than XP, though of course that's
> because I never cared to buy one (and I consider Windows far over-priced in
> the current market anyway, though this free upgrade thing sort of confuses
> how you assess that).
>
> I've ended up being given, or buying for next to nothing, most versions of
> Windows from 3.1 to XP over the years (including later service packs for XP,
> as far as I'm concerned they're 90% bloat). I'm pretty sure by the time there
> are things I truely need 7+ for (and I expect that to be many years) I'll
> have a copy gained for nothing or next to it (the installed system limit will
> probably get me, but I'll deal with that when time comes), and hopefully
> Linux will do the missing task anyway (either directly, or using Wine) and I
> still won't have to install 7+.
>
> I have installed 7, and configured it on machines that didn't
> belong to me. As far as I'm concerned the interface takes the more annoying
> bits of the one in XP and amplifies them significantly, and XP already drove
> me to change core parts of its interface. I hate to think of the interface in
> 8 or 10, though I'm sure I'll have to eventually.
>
> Oh, and I haven't upgraded my XP PC either, it's about 13 years old (it was a
> good one back then though). I've got piles of newer machines, but why
> configure a new one when the existing one is perfect for my purposes? Plus
> it's more compatible with the old stuff I often play around with.
>
> Also, I'm posting from a 19 year old PC running Linux, so just write me off
> as crazy.
>

OK! :)


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Pete
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