Windows XP End of Life Approaching

[kc8adu]

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who cares?
probably more cracked copies out there than legit.activation cracks worked fine all these years and will continue to work.

[goontron]

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Please repeat this inquiry, if activation is effected only by the automated way?
Always was available and the manual way of activation by contacting them by phone...

sorry let me correct my self.
multi volume licenses wont activate anymore. however we never asked about OEM.

[Kiriakos GR]

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Since day one there was numerous ways to crack this down.
Even me I have around a copy of a volume license on CD ( non legit) but the point is that MS does not kill just XP, they just prove to the world that even by been legit, this Windows software was never really yours.

[momaka]

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an inquiry was sent to Microsoft by where I work and Microsoft's response was that the activation, registration, and verification systems (there are multiple of them!?!) will be affected and keys will no longer be verified come EOL.

So does that mean they will accept pretty much any activation key (as long as the disc accepts it first, of course), or will they simply not let you install?

If the latter, then I guess I better dust off that volume license XP SP2 CD .

[Kiriakos GR]

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Some one talks here for 100$ manual activation after the EOL date.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...6-34c541f88fa4

I bet that soon the most popular keystrokes on Google will be the text: XP license backup / restore software.

[Kiriakos GR]

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an inquiry was sent to Microsoft by where I work and Microsoft's response was that the activation, registration, and verification systems (there are multiple of them!?!) will be affected and keys will no longer be verified come EOL.

Please repeat this inquiry, if activation is effected only by the automated way?
Always was available and the manual way of activation by contacting them by phone...

[TELVM]

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Expect M$ to torpedo Windows XP in full salvoes, they're eager to eclipse it. Also expect them to progressively sabotage Windows Se7en.

They're hell-bent on the path of destroying the real Windows and unifying to the lowest common denominator (tiled walled garden for retards).

There's a chance the next CEO kicks a lot of asses and corrects course, but I'd prepare for the worse ...

[goontron]

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Microsoft does not say a word about the activation engine, therefore I consider that it will stay unaffected.

an inquiry was sent to Microsoft by where I work and Microsoft's response was that the activation, registration, and verification systems (there are multiple of them!?!) will be affected and keys will no longer be verified come EOL.

[Kiriakos GR]

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Microsoft does not say a word about the activation engine, therefore I consider that it will stay unaffected.

But they kill also and the office 2003, I have the small business office 2003, and I got it few years back mostly for compatibility purposes.
But who cares MS never supported it correctly.

After April 8, 2014, there will be no new security updates, non-security hotfixes, free or paid assisted support options or online technical content updates.

Running Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 in your environment after their end of support date may expose your company to potential risks, such as:

Security & Compliance Risks: Unsupported and unpatched environments are vulnerable to security risks. This may result in an officially recognized control failure by an internal or external audit body, leading to suspension of certifications, and/or public notification of the organization's inability to maintain its systems and customer information.
Lack of Independent Software Vendor (ISV) & Hardware Manufacturers support: A recent industry report from Gartner Research suggests "many independent software vendors (ISVs) are unlikely to support new versions of applications on Windows XP in 2011; in 2012, it will become common." And it may stifle access to hardware innovation: Gartner Research further notes that in 2012, most PC hardware manufacturers will stop supporting Windows XP on the majority of their new PC models.

[momaka]

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I hope the activation system stays for a while. I still have about 35 or so unused OEM licenses.

I think I will be using XP even long after this "EOF" debacle. It still does everything I need for school (typing documents, email, and doing research).

I still use the Windows 2000 theme on XP, so a pre-XP style GUI is not going back to the old days for me

Same here. I just love the simplicity of that GUI, especially with all of the stupid animations and [d]effects turned off. Examples:
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attach...8&d=1338868550
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/attach...9&d=1338868550
On Windows Vista and 7, it's just not quite the same, though.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...44299206_o.jpg

I've been supporting these exact machines for the last 11 years. Originally as a student in HS, when I installed an entire building full of GX260's. After I graduated, I started working where I'm at now, and we bought a bunch of them as the school was cycling them out. I've continued to string them along with recaps for the last 6 years... Some of these have my handwriting on them from when I was still in school, because even then we were replacing motherboards by the dozen.

Nice story. Those computers might have suffered from bad caps, but 11 years is still impressive IMO. Last Fall I was working/volunteering in IT dept. in a NGO, and they still had quite a few of those Optiplex 260/270/280 machines (mostly the non-SFF ones) chugging and churning. I think they phased out most of them this year, though.
I'm still amazed that those Pentium 4 CPUs have held up all those years.

[domas]

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what about activation system??

[ncovert]

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I love Windows XP. Even though it will be discontinued in a few months, I will still be using it after the expiry date. Unfortunately, I won't be able to reinstall it because of that activation system.

[RJARRRPCGP]

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Use nLite and integrate all updates with a package from ryanvm.net.

That will also fix Windows Update on XP.

Use 5eraph's update pack for XP x64.

[Kiriakos GR]

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I meant using OO as opposed to Libreoffice.

No offense is taken.. I just grab the opportunity to share some extra thoughts of my.

[Kiriakos GR]

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So you mean people pay lots of money for win software to be spied on?

The 90% of the smart virus is one tiny script that uses the Windows engine to do the job.
Microsoft build this thing, and yes they can do what ever please them.


10 years back I become an eye witness of a crazy story.
I was called so to repair a computer ( Win XP ) in a local business, the problem was a bad hard drive, and I had to reinstall everything.
By activating the new Installation, in 5 minutes Microsoft Hellas made a telephone at that shop so to ask if we need any help? And also what was the problem?

The answer in your question .... they can monitor anything interesting if they like so.

[ratdude747]

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Hey I am one of them ...

Some years back when I was fighting with my self if I am going to get the red pill and buy the MS office small business, I did try hard to adjust using the Ooo.

The problem was that you do have to face compatibility issues with older documents made by MS word, and the most devastating is the lack of Full version outlook which I was need so to synchronize mobile phone contacts, and also my PDA with win mobile on it.

Generally speaking, if you haven't be contaminated with portable devices that using the Microsoft code, you might be happy with the Ooo.

But from the other hand any data logging software from respectable vendors, come with scrips that extend it capabilities by cooperating with MS Office.

The sum of the above thoughts makes you to get finally the red pill and move on.

I meant using OO as opposed to Libreoffice. Before libre was forked (due to Oracle's buyout of Sun), OO was the way to go... I used it. But since the fork, OO isn't a good choice, Libre being the real successor (all/most of the devs moved to it).

[TELVM]

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I tried updating 3 of my XP64 machines, something is amuck with windows update....little green indicator bar jerks off indefinitely.....been like this for 3 days.

They're self-torpedoing XP in a pathetic attempt to shepherd the pack into the Tiles 8 joke.

This works for me: Disable Windows XP update, download and install IE8, reboot, enable update.

(It goes without saying that we never touch IE8 again).

[ivtec]

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1) Just type in those licenses ... I am fully responsible if my code mess up your PC .. your Name & telephone.

2) No its not about profit, its about dominance.
In this war the end user is not important, but every one who messing up with the operating system with tweaks that gets deep in the true windows user spying engine he must be stopped.
Their ways looks as to be a criminal organization.

3) Before six years one fresh Microsoft engineer who was trying hard to understand the windows engine, so to prove him self as worthy to his new job and supervisors.
He discovered seven layers in the operating system and so complicated that he would unable to fully understand.
By the years if you add on top of those layers another three that is the additional of framework 1 + 2, 3, 4, the monster have now 11 layers, and it is impossible for a single human brain to get a hand on it.

In the lever of drivers I am not a specialist, but at list Microsoft left the door open for unsigned drivers to be installed.
Their fortress was not in danger from one unsigned driver.

The best customers of Microsoft are governments, army & business.
The complexity in the operating system was added intentionally so the common Joe to not be able to play with it.

But from the other hand I do understand that playing with a single unlocked kernel it is something that the simple Joe can do if he have some skills in writing and debugging code.

My skills in the windows software are limited in to edit manually the registry so to overcome common problems, I am not a software guru.

So you mean people pay lots of money for win software to be spied on?

[Kiriakos GR]

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Agreed. OO is for morons.

Hey I am one of them ...

Some years back when I was fighting with my self if I am going to get the red pill and buy the MS office small business, I did try hard to adjust using the Ooo.

The problem was that you do have to face compatibility issues with older documents made by MS word, and the most devastating is the lack of Full version outlook which I was need so to synchronize mobile phone contacts, and also my PDA with win mobile on it.

Generally speaking, if you haven't be contaminated with portable devices that using the Microsoft code, you might be happy with the Ooo.

But from the other hand any data logging software from respectable vendors, come with scrips that extend it capabilities by cooperating with MS Office.

The sum of the above thoughts makes you to get finally the red pill and move on.

[SeanB]

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XP in a virtualbox, works fine for me and does almost anything aside from games. Libreoffice does work well enough. Funny thing is printers work better under Linux, only thing that does not is the cheap junk that is either an idiot MFD device or those crippled ones that use the host computer to do the rasterising while there is a perfectly adequate processor in the device anyway.

Next time I get a Win7 key I will install that in a VM as well. Just installed Win8 today on sisters computer, after 2 hours of update it works well enough though I am starting to learn how to use it a little better. Like XP it is just a learning curve and a change of how things were, much like going from RH to Debian was for me.