Elenarie: This means that after 18 months, drivers for hardware running older OSes won't be developed anymore. If you see, this trend has already started as companies are dropping complete support for Vista and 7 from their drivers portfolio. Microsoft does not guarantee
I wonder if that really matters...
A few some months ago i pulled out a old webcam, which was a logitec quick cam 5000 or something. The only 'latest' drivers i could find were for vista, and the installer said i had the wrong version of windows and refused to work. So i forcibly extracted all the files, and then did a search and found the drivers that matched my webcam. Installed them, worked perfectly.
Also keep in mind... unless you're wanting the newest hardware i don't see why it matters. If you need a printer, there's plenty of older ones with good drivers, same with video cards, modems, sound cards, etc etc.
Still i'm annoyed at them forcing and pushing 10 so much...
tinyE: The punchline is they will continue to support XP. :P
I certainly hope so. :P
Tarm: Everything after XP feels like a desperate marketing department gone haywire. Fuck the users. We need to sell sell SELL!
I'll have to agree.
Somehow we have to convince them to buy something that they don't need because they already have something that does the job or along those lines. Like convincing you to get a $40 laser etched corkscrew when you got the $2 one in the drawer that works just fine.
Truth be told, XP had such a long life cycle that it's sorta the base standard and you'll still have software made for it. For me Windows 7 is a 64bit version of XP, and that's how i treat it.
viperfdl: Steve Balmer who called Linux a cancer and also said that it is communism.
Sign me on!
Communism is treated as a bad word when in fact everyone being treated equally and ethically isn't a bad thing. Of course Communism is generally looked bad on because it's never properly implemented. Much like Anarchy (
lack of government) is seen as horrible when they are confusing the term with Chaos.
real.geizterfahr: which means that new features and tweaks will be added, ended one year ago! That's why Windows 7 doesn't get DirectX 12 ;)
Screw DX12, i don't want it. I was happy with DX9 which let me play Morrowind, and i've been happy with it since. Actually i'd prefer things pushed more for openGL but what can you do?
real.geizterfahr: No. It's economy. They kept on developing Windows 7 for 5 years! That's a long time already and you can't keep on throwing money into a product that you don't even sell anymore (since a bit more than 2 years) forever.
Huhh?? If i understand it right, every new computer that's sold at say NewEgg and at Walmart and Office Depot, usually come with windows, which means have paid/bundled licenses on them, meaning Microsoft would still get sales, just not boxed copies from the store...
wpegg: And yet nobody complains when firefox auto-updates and only provides bug fixes in its latest release, or when google chrome only supports its latest version.
I'm running V15 and V25, definitely out of date... no problems... nothing that a few plugins for privacy can't fix.
Gede: Here is something I don't understand: if Intel won't support Windows 7 after a certain date, wouldn't that create a market opportunity for AMD? Why are they following Intel in a similar time frame? Did the three companies have a meeting to discuss this matter or something?
Although the 'newest features' of a chip won't be available, i'm very sure the systems will work just fine.
The 8-bit guy
recently put up a video where he talks of computer speed, and the gaps in performance over generations. However recently he put Windows 8/10 32bit on a computer from like 2000 and it works just fine. Good theories on it, but the largest one is that since XP was on the market so long and the requirements for XP sorta became the standard, newer programs aren't sucking as much resources as they could have been had the OS only had the usual 3-5 year lifespan.
Also to note, it's stupid to remove backwards compatibility, unless there's a really good reason behind it, especially with the x86 instruction set, so i highly doubt newer chips will refuse to work with an older OS, or older chips with a newer OS.