What would you pay to have Windows XP again?

[barrov]

All my recent computers have been ruined to a greater or lesser extent by the silly operating systems that Microsoft has been producing.

I have come to the conclusion that I would be happy to pay £50 to downgrade and have good old Windows XP.

Is anyone else on the same wavelength? If so, what would you pay to have XP?

 

[Ian J]

Which one(s) are you complaining about as I'm quite happy with Windows 7

 

[barrov]

Hi Ian,

Vista annoyed me with internet /wifi connection issues.

Windows 8: I am writing on my laptop that has this that has narrowly avoided being thrown out of a fourth floor window on countless occasions due to it's incredibly annoying tendency to swipe to the start screen. Sooooo frustrating!

Windows 10: I haven't upgraded yet as I am allowing the rest of the world to be the guinea pigs and iron out the first six months of problems. I saw a thread on here today about someone downgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 8, which doesn't bode well.

I would love to have XP again. When I am 96 years old I'm sure I will still be harking back to the good old days of Windows XP while I google where to buy my next robotic assistant.

 

[Tier1Logistics]

I would be more then happy to pay that to have a running computer on Windows XP. I did not like Visa. I would pay £100s to have one on Windows98 with a constant flow of updates, I still today love that OS.

 

[sirearl]

Been running XP since it came out,no reason to change and never had a problem.

 

[Leo-InstallingIT]

It's all about 2000 Pro for me

 

[KM-Tiger]

Only just had to EOL a Win2k computer. XP still running fine on a PC and a laptop.

 

[Chris34]

I run XP. Used Vista which was pre-installed on a laptop and it virtually wouldn't work (minimum system requirements should have been at least twice what was advised). I used to have to leave it for 30 mins to load before I could use it. Ever since I've stuck with XP.

IMO Microsoft has gone downhill since XP, I wouldn't test out a new operating system now unless I was paid to do so.


Chris.

 

[ryedale]

Vista was rubbish but I can't find anything bad to say about 7

I've used it for about four years on my main PC and it's never given me a moment's trouble.

 

[Philip Hoyle]

I still do most of my work on XP machines - if it ain't broke and all that. They still do what it says on the tin!

I have a couple of Win 7 machines for specific needs, i.e. where software won't work under XP or where there is internet security concerns (due to worries about whether XP is secure enough these days).

Have no intention of upgrading to 8 or 10 nor buying any new machines until absolutely necessary, which I think could well be some years away!

 

[JeromeJ]

I would pay but not sure if I would pay 50 pounds. I hate Windows 8 with a passion. 10 is an improvement over 8 so I am content with that for now. It's no XP though.

 

[avalanche]

Win 7 has been the best system so far - much better than xp

 

[Scalloway]

I dug out an XP old laptop a few days ago for a project and I was surprised how old fashioned it seemed.

 

[MarcusCornelius]

I agree - Windows 7 is the best Operating System Microsoft did so far. Unfortunately, they do not listen to us users and dumped Win 7 in favour of this monstrosity - Windows 8/10. The users are especially mad at Windows 10 because it has absolutely disastrous user privacy policies.

This might be actually a very good opportunity for a company who has enough money and capability to convince Microsoft to sell source code and IP rights of Windows 7 to them. If Microsoft does not want to work with Win 7 anymore, why don't they just cash out on this OS, giving other company a chance to satisfy user demand that Microsoft chose to ignore?

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

What would you pay to have Windows XP again?

The same price that I would pay to have a pay phone phone box outside of my house

 

[garyk]

I think XP is the most solid OS ever released by M$.

Fortunately as I have bizspark membership I can get any M$ software for free so can still download a legit copy of XP.In fact I can still get Windows 3.1!!!!

 

[Davek0974]

Love XP, use it all day, every day, I have it virtualised so if i trash it I can get a new install in seconds.

Also have 2008r2 at work using thin clients, its not bad as well, pretty stable and not many bells and whistles.

Prefer Mac OSX at home but still have XP virtual on that, I can boot a virtual XP session in 3-1/2 seconds on my Mac laptop

Have heard nothing good about Win10 at all.

 

[Davek0974]

Love XP, use it all day, every day, I have it virtualised so if i trash it I can get a new install in seconds.

Also have 2008r2 at work using thin clients, its not bad as well, pretty stable and not many bells and whistles.

Prefer Mac OSX at home but still have XP virtual on that, I can boot a virtual XP session in 3-1/2 seconds on my Mac laptop

Have heard nothing good about Win10 at all.

I loved Windows NT4 - rock solid server software

 

[garyk]

I loved Windows NT4 - rock solid server software

I used to have a 33.6k modem with dodgy driver software that would regularly BSOD NT so never found it bulletproof.

I found XP more stable, even when doing hardcore coding (that sometimes had memory leaks)

 

[Davek0974]

I used to have a 33.6k modem with dodgy driver software that would regularly BSOD NT so never found it bulletproof.

I found XP more stable, even when doing hardcore coding (that sometimes had memory leaks)

Hardly NT's fault then

 

[garyk]

Hardly NT's fault then

Well yes the whole point of an OS is that no matter what I throw at it it shouldn't BSOD. Application software should never brick the OS. When writing code you might have memory leaks and all sorts of things going on. I threw everything at XP and never crashed it once.

 

[Peter Durrant]

Genuinely think I'd pay over 1,000 000 yen

 

[Ashley_Price]

Personally, I've never had a problem with most of the OSs I've ever used (I didn't upgrade to Vista).

But I don't upgrade until pretty much absolutely necessary. In fact the first time I upgraded as soon as I could was Windows 10. I've not had any problems with it.

Until I changed careers, when I was doing the typing, I'd have been happy to carry on with my old ZX Spectrum and copy of Tasword, but clients became fussy about having their stuff emailed to them and not printed out on a 9-pin dot matrix printer.

 

[smallclaimsassistance]

After a long bedding-in period, I have finally come to terms with 8.1, and use it for work.

I do have an XP desktop however that I use for non-work stuff. It's about 8 years old, and still more or less as good as the day I bought it.