I'm off Windows XP (and Server 2003) forever...

[stj]

Re: I'm off Windows XP (and Server 2003) forever...

Care to explain your "..as bad as 10.." comment ?

what was that term the bastards use, metrics?
whatever the term, the spyware was pushed onto 7 and 8 in the recent updates.

There is also the Enterprise version of Windows 10 that doesn't monitor the stuff the home version does by default

so they say.

i dont and never will run this shit, but any decent datacenter or server room should have inline firewall boxes independant from the main machines.
nothing stopping them packet-sniffing to verify one way or the other.

if i did run it, i woud stick an htpc with a couple of network ports on it inline and run wireshark on it.
just to find out.

[diif]

Re: I'm off Windows XP (and Server 2003) forever...

There is no pushing of updates on 7 and 8.1. The user or administrator is free to choose.

Those updates are all optional and as such a properly configured PC will not download or install them.

[Mac29]

Re: I'm off Windows XP (and Server 2003) forever...

Couple of thoughts,
1. no one seems to recognize you could run Sandboxie on an old OS. I'm still trying to research what browsers attempted to code the feature into recent versions.
2. as far as MS having nothing to gain I can only think REALLY???????
3. I've read, and I believe, that as soon as the latest iteration comes out MS pushes crap in their updates to gunk up the OS behind. I know of updates messing with Office applications and am surprised more people don't bring up the subject. In comments or articles.

[kaboom]

Re: I'm off Windows XP (and Server 2003) forever...

what was that term the bastards use, metrics?
whatever the term, the spyware was pushed onto 7 and 8 in the recent updates.

Not all of us have forgotten that the latest version of WMP for XP includes some very nice "vistafication."

M$ should only rot and die; the demented need to push windows fone on everyone and everything only shows how desperate they are.


With the "disguising," obfuscation, etc, of their stupid "updates," they're just giving their Stockholm-syndrome users a big middle finger- sadly, there are too many Patty Hearsts.

"Yes- M$ wouldn't be forcing this unless I needed it!" You "need" it like a hole in the head.

As I've said before, each inch they take, each step towards doom that doesn't bring criticism among discussions and forums, only enables M$ and furthers the brazenness.

XBONE would've been more of a newvista than it already is. There was outrage and backlash during the "pre-release" period of that platform; where's the same sentiment on the PC side?

See, people know exactly what to expect from M$- you never saw the excuses on the XBONE side. You didn't see any "it's not the final version, give it a chance" trolling like we did for vista/8/10.

M$
M$
"To the moon," M$

a lot of those places use software wih a browser interface that only works (so they say) with old versions of IE like 5 & 6
even Honda's engineering system for dealership mechanics does it!

That's whatcha call... the root of the problem...

[goontron]

Re: I'm off Windows XP (and Server 2003) forever...

Not all of us have forgotten that the latest version of WMP for XP includes some very nice "vistafication."

M$ should only rot and die; the demented need to push windows fone on everyone and everything only shows how desperate they are.


With the "disguising," obfuscation, etc, of their stupid "updates," they're just giving their Stockholm-syndrome users a big middle finger- sadly, there are too many Patty Hearsts.

"Yes- M$ wouldn't be forcing this unless I needed it!" You "need" it like a hole in the head.

As I've said before, each inch they take, each step towards doom that doesn't bring criticism among discussions and forums, only enables M$ and furthers the brazenness.

XBONE would've been more of a newvista than it already is. There was outrage and backlash during the "pre-release" period of that platform; where's the same sentiment on the PC side?

See, people know exactly what to expect from M$- you never saw the excuses on the XBONE side. You didn't see any "it's not the final version, give it a chance" trolling like we did for vista/8/10.

M$
M$
"To the moon," M$



That's whatcha call... the root of the problem...

Messrosoft...

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: I'm off Windows XP (and Server 2003) forever...

Like I said in a post just before this one, XP is far from dead over at MSFN!

[Stefan Payne]

Re: I'm off Windows XP (and Server 2003) forever...

Why won't the zombies die?!

[dmill89]

Re: I'm off Windows XP (and Server 2003) forever...

only Linux and BSD are actually legal to use in places that handle secure data.

Where did you get that from? We used Windows when I worked at the DOD (Dept. of Defense), any systems with truly "secure/restricted" data are completely isolated from the internet and any commercial networks, and protected with substantial physical security measures as well, so the OS is pretty much irrelevant on those systems from a security prospective.

I currently work for a major health insurance company and all of our desktops/laptops are Win7, our servers are a mix of Unix, Linux, Windows Server 2008r2, WAS (Websphere application server, IBM's virtual application servers that run the Mainframe), and Z/OS (IBM Mainframe).

[stj]

Re: I'm off Windows XP (and Server 2003) forever...

Why won't the zombies die?!

because people forget you have to destroy the head!

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: I'm off Windows XP (and Server 2003) forever...

you can forget patches, in places like hospitals and local govrnment you need to shoot the management with a shotgun.

I sometimes forget about the shotgun in Halo CE on the Bigass map.
But, it's real good for close-range-in-the-base-killing when in CTF.