xp in comment and analysis
Editor's Blog: Ever hear the one about the happy Vista user?
Comment Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. One year on: XP still outshining Vista Except - and it was this that obliged him to buy the... [15 Jan 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.01.08
Round-Up A month earlier, silicon.com readers ranked it below Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux as their operating system of choice. As any fool knows, the most popular fireworks applications FireOne and PyroDigital both run on Windows XP and Vista, at least... [04 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Apple vs Vista, jail for mobile users and the broadband swindle…
Comment In contrast, we have plenty of real world experience with XP and Vista viruses - this is clear. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [03 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Data security... e-learning a bit of a bore?... ID cards debate... skip vista?
Comment You say in your story that it's likely software companies will drop support for XP in 2011/12 but this will only happen if the majority of people upgraded. Windows XP is pretty good. XP is a pretty good OS. [13 Dec 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.12.07
Round-Up What's more, it turns out that XP with SP3 still has twice the performance of its newer brother, even with its own first service pack installed. In addition, a poll on the site indicates that Vista is failing to win over silicon.com readers, with... [07 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... 'me hearties shun Vista… techies on the move?… bosses out of tune
Comment Recent articles seem to suggest that the majority of Vista sales are OEM on machines sold, not upgrades, with lots of people reformatting and putting XP on their shiny new machine. Vista: Piracy rates half the level of XP, says Microsoft [06 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista uptake… HMRC blunder… iPhone too cool or too costly?
Comment One year on: XP still outshining Vista Just because Microsoft says that Vista purchases are increasing, companies like ourselves with volume licencing agreements are buying Vista OEM licences with new machines, but are downgrading these to XP - so... [29 Nov 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.11.07
Round-Up Topping the poll of silicon.com users was Windows XP. XP garnered around 42 per cent of the vote. At some point before he went mental and started talking to horses, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche came up with the idea of eternal recurrence. [16 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... cashless concerns, battle of the OSes, iPhone fans...
Comment Mine's working better than XP did! Poll: In a fight between Vista, OS X, Linux, XP. All the evidence you’ve presented suggests that an uncomfortably high percentage of users are voting with their feet and reverting to XP. [15 Nov 2007]
Dear silicon.com... in defence of Leopard, trash talk, iWant iPhone, lost data...
Comment In comparison, my wife uses a Windows XP laptop. I have even put XP on my What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on... [08 Nov 2007]
Q&A: Ashley Highfield, head of BBC's Future Media and Technology unit
Comment It's understandable if we'd only ever intended to launch an XP-only iPlayer but that was never the plan. As head of the BBC's Future Media and Technology unit Ashley Highfield, one of this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters, is responsible for... [30 Oct 2007]
Leader: Why the BBC must do more with iPlayer
Leader The BBC is in the process of developing a video streaming version of iPlayer, its online on-demand TV service, for both Windows XP and non-XP platforms.iPlayer is currently only available as a download service for Windows XP, despite the BBC... [19 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...
Comment If Microsoft stick to their position of Vista or nothing then, as availability of XP dries up, all they will do is proliferate unlicenced copies of XP. Demand for XP is so high that ebay prices have increased for XP packs with a Certificate of... [27 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.09.07
Round-Up In fact, boxed copies of Vista are selling more slowly than boxed copies of XP did in its early days. Standalone unit sales of Vista at US retail stores were down 59.7 per cent compared with Windows XP, during each product's first six months on... [14 Sep 2007]
Leader: Time for a ceasefire in iPlayer row
Leader In addition, as one silicon.com reader pointed out, Channel 4's 4OD TV service is also only available for XP and Vista, so the BBC isn't the only organisation non-Windows users might like to moan at. There has been a lot of criticism levelled at... [31 Jul 2007]
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