[DesuMaiden]

I'm in 2015, and I'm still using Windows XP. I'm dead serious. What about you?

[Newfie]

Yup.

[yellowcanoe]

If things go well next week we'll be down to a single XP system in my department. The faculty member who owns that machine just won't give it up.

Other departments in our faculty have expensive lab equipment that is controlled by an XP system. The lifetime of lab equipment far exceeds the lifetime of a Windows operating system. Unfortunately, vendors generally won't update the software to work on a newer version of Windows so one is stuck running an unsupported version of Windows. We actually installed XP on a couple of machines this week to be used as spares for machines running in our Earth Sciences department.

[Subjectivist]

I used it up until I got a virus a few months ago, then I discovered after reformatting my drive that Microsoft no longer supports XP and would not update it from the factory version to the latest version I had been running. My old computer can't handle anything more advanced so now it is a door stop, very little of my software will run on it and the explorer version is so archaic it will not interface with most websites.

[DesuMaiden]

Windows XP is awesome.

[toolpush]

2 x XP computers at home
To numerous XP computers at work to count
No problems, working fine.

[dinopello]

I have one XP machine still. An old laptop without a screen that I use for experimentation.

[MD]

should I give up my DOS machine?

[PeakOiler]

We had the same problem as yellowcanoe described above. Fortunately our vendors did have software versions that run on Windows 7 after we changed our PCs to Win7.

I use a Mac at home. I love the Mac OS.

[dolanbaker]

Ubuntu with an XP VM

[AgentR11]

I have some XP machines tied to custom hardware drivers; but they're protected by hardware firewalls; my connected machines are Win7, 8, and Slackware's. I'm typing this on a firefox running on slackware.

[Newfie]

Boy oh boy, do I ever feel like a dinosaur.

[Loki]

Windows 95 here

j/k, Ubuntu on my main laptop (an old netbook), Windows 7 on my bigger laptop, which is mostly just for watching videos. I think one of my old laptops still has XP, but not sure, been some time since I booted it up. Might have replaced it with Ubuntu.

I used it up until I got a virus a few months ago, then I discovered after reformatting my drive that Microsoft no longer supports XP and would not update it from the factory version to the latest version I had been running. My old computer can't handle anything more advanced so now it is a door stop, very little of my software will run on it and the explorer version is so archaic it will not interface with most websites.

If you want to salvage it you could try Linux. There are distros that should work OK with older laptops if all you want to do is surf the Web.

[Keith_McClary]

My old computer can't handle anything more advanced so now it is a door stop, very little of my software will run on it and the explorer version is so archaic it will not interface with most websites.

If you want to salvage it you could try Linux. There are distros that should work OK with older laptops if all you want to do is surf the Web.

I have Puppy Linux on a former XP box. It runs from a USB stick, you can unplug the noisy, energy consuming hard drive. You can get up-to-date Firefox, Chromium, Opera. It takes a bit over a minute to boot up, start Chromium and display a web page. IIRC you need over 250M RAM.

I can also run my "new" desktop box or an old laptop from the same USB stick, keeping saved data and settings. (I can't get it to boot on a W7 laptop.)

[davep]

Windows XP is a great target platform for learning penetration testing (hacking) on.

[vtsnowedin]

I'm still on a XP desktop. I'm hoping to let it last through the current generation of operating systems so I can leap forward to the next one as soon as it gets debugged.

[joyfulbozo]

I am using on my desktop... XP is far better than win vista i can say... win 7 is ok butr speed we get in XP is nice...

[Outcast_Searcher]

I'm still using it on older machines as a gaming platform. As an "old guy" in my 50's, I can still play the old DOS games I love (ah, a simpler time) on a DOS simulator, and have them run well if I use XP. (Windows 7 seems to have broken the ones I like). And I don't have those computers hooked to the internet, so no risk of virus problems.

I have been wondering about getting around this. Given how buggy Windows can be -- what are the odds I can run a Windows XP virtual machine under Windows 7 or 8.x? Doing a quick read, I see a problem with virtualizing audio. Yeah, I want to play the games with no sound (NOT).

As usual, thank you Microsoft (NOT) for making windows truly backward compatible. (NOT)

[davep]

I'm still using it on older machines as a gaming platform. As an "old guy" in my 50's, I can still play the old DOS games I love (ah, a simpler time) on a DOS simulator, and have them run well if I use XP. (Windows 7 seems to have broken the ones I like). And I don't have those computers hooked to the internet, so no risk of virus problems.

I have been wondering about getting around this. Given how buggy Windows can be -- what are the odds I can run a Windows XP virtual machine under Windows 7 or 8.x? Doing a quick read, I see a problem with virtualizing audio. Yeah, I want to play the games with no sound (NOT).

As usual, thank you Microsoft (NOT) for making windows truly backward compatible. (NOT)

According to VMWare you need at least XP SP2 for sound to work http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003425. I guess it would be the same for VirtualBox etc.