EMails we don't need to get
We got an EMail - since my phone wouldn't let me respond for some reason I'm just handling this here.
Guys for the last time there's nothing abandoned about XP. If you really want XP you can go find a copy off eBay/Amazon. The statistics shown on the front page are manually updated and given all the other stuff I have to do around here it's really the last of any concern. This is why it says As of (specific month). So hopefully the last time were having this conversation, it's not happening for a long time. If you have different opinions you are more than welcome to sync your own time and money into infrastructure to run your own site that offers it.
Guys for the last time there's nothing abandoned about XP. If you really want XP you can go find a copy off eBay/Amazon. The statistics shown on the front page are manually updated and given all the other stuff I have to do around here it's really the last of any concern. This is why it says As of (specific month). So hopefully the last time were having this conversation, it's not happening for a long time. If you have different opinions you are more than welcome to sync your own time and money into infrastructure to run your own site that offers it.
Hi,
Your website homepage says that 30% of computers still run XP. However, the link on your homepage takes me to a website where the latest statistics say very differently. According to your link that you provided, Windows XP accounts for 14.6% of the market, and Windows 8 and 8.1 combined add up to 16.45%. Additionally, you neglected to count Windows 7 which is newer than Windows XP and is still very much in support. Since Windows 7 accounts for a whopping 57.76% of all operating systems, it's fair to say that Windows XP is now far less popular than it's direct successor alone, as well as all following releases combined. For this reason, Windows XP now fills the final requirement for abandonware listed on your homepage. I know your homepage says not to ask about Windows XP, but then, your homepage also says it's more popular than Windows 8 and 8.1 combined, so I don't think it's safe to go by what your homepage says anymore. So, I ask you - will you be making Windows XP available, or do you want to continue to lie to about old statistics and make up your own arbitrary rules for what constitutes as "abandonware"? I hope you don't take this as rude, I'm simply pointing out the hypocrisy of your own requirements based on the most up-to-date statistics.
Have a good day,
Dan
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Seriously guys...
Genuine copies are easy enough to find on eBay. Or just bug your local computer guy, they might throw a few trashed copies your way. If you really need a new valid license, go bug Microsoft. Of course, the people requesting this just want freebie warez. Well if you really need to, it is still easy enough to find unlicensed electronic copies... elsewhere.
It's a shame, mostly every store I go to (especially with the mom and pops) has XP running on their registers, not to mention that my entire medical history is "safeguarded" by XP.
The little things I point out.
Unlike newer versions, at last most of the nonsensical stuff could be turned off.
If some companies had it their way, they would have Microsoft continue "support". With enough money, they would.
Define nonsensical? You can turn off quite a bit with Windows 7.
People hated XP back when it was brand new. It sucked because half your programs / games wouldn't run on XP or ran with quirky issues on XP. And tons of old peripherals lacked driver support for it.
The only reason people grew to like it was because it was around for long enough that new versions of programs and games were written for it. New drivers, new hardware... and eventually it was as good as 9x was in terms of support and with the stability of the NT kernel. And because Vista was delayed so much, people just got used to XP. Then when Vista came out, it had the same problems as XP did when it was new plus a few of its own and so people hated it and grew to love XP even more.
People still seem to have a bitter taste in their mouth from Vista and thus seem unwilling to give 7 a chance even though it is better than anything that came before it. And 8, despite the fact that it has made several performance improvements with more or less the same application and driver support that 7 and Vista, people treat it like the plague... all because of a little change in the user interface that takes about two seconds to get used to if you give it half a chance.
And all the people hoping that 10 will be their saving grace... I got news for you. It's basically 8 with a smaller start screen.
People don't like change, it's nothing more than that.
I still have win98se for my old games (classic rpgs and such yay) and still use winXP for my newer games and applications (I stopped buying games around 2005... hobby got too expensive). I upgraded to 7 a few years ago after 8 was on the market for a while once it dropped tremendously in price (i'm a poor programmer... my OS acquisition is slooow).
so for every new OS there will be haters. I'm sticking with 7 until I can figure out this Win 10 mess... and my software is outdated yet again -_-
product in tit July 29, 2015. I think people put they hope and dreams in
Windows 10 like Windows 8.1 because people at time though it new big thing
turn out be flop. I hope with fix windows 10 in time before July 29 due date.
But i like Windows 10 use Windows 10 on VirtualBox don't real computer because
i think it still beta stage, when real Windows 10 in still come out i still be use Windows 8.1.