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Round-Up So spare a thought for owners of some AMD-based computers who are finding the move to Windows XP Service Pack 3 has sent their systems into an endless reboot cycle. Not that the XP start-up process is dull, far from it.
[16 May 2008]
Comment I thought of this phrase recently when my Windows XP machine died. Software piracy may well be a very bad thing. But does it justify inflicting misery on legitimate software buyers, asks Martin Brampton.
[07 May 2008]
Round-Up Faced with a 30 June deadline to stop shipping computers with Windows XP, the world's PC makers are getting creative. Technically, the computers will be Vista Business or Vista Ultimate machines that have been factory downgraded to XP at the...
[02 May 2008]
Comment Windows XP was getting a lot of attention this week, with silicon.com readers undecided whether the OS should live on or not… And data losses never seem far from the reader comments page, with this week being no exception… Another item on the...
[01 May 2008]
Comment That includes two major data centres and 12 satellite centres, along with 1,500 servers and 40,000 desktops running Windows XP, and SAP for business applications. Being the CIO for a tech vendor can often be something of a double-edged sword.
[01 Apr 2008]
Comment Having been exposed to Vista I have to say Windows 98 is still the best OS produced by MS - and now XP is sort of stable I can live with XP. Shame it's Vista they are selling, don't suppose there's any chance of a price drop with the last few XP...
[06 Mar 2008]
Comment But this tends to affect those on more formal licence agreements or in more affluent areas, whereas for qualifying governments purchasing Windows-based PCs, Partners in Learning provides a full stack of Windows XP Starter Edition, Office Home and...
[07 Feb 2008]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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 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]
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]
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