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On 03/05/2014 04:16 PM, Thomas Bennett wrote:
> Happy 14.x birthday XP. Now that you have reached the ripe old age
> of 14+ the Death Panel says No Go, bye bye.
Indeed. While I've used Linux as my primary desktop since the 1990s,
XP is my hands-down fave Windows flavor. Stable (by M$ standards) and
comparatively undemanding of resources (again, in the Windows sense).
I still run a copy in a VM under Linux for those things that refuse
to imbibe Wine and that I simply must have available.
Perhaps that's why several contributors to this thread have suggested
that M$' EOL declaration aside, why give it up? XP, I'll miss ya...
cheers,
- - mt
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