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Windows 7 to Windows 8.1?
kraid:
With all the attempts to get away from DirectX (e.g. Mantel, OpenGL) and windows only (SteamOS, Linux support), i doubt that MS will do something like restricting the new DX to win 8 or 9/10.
Mangley:
--- Quote from: killermonkey on April 19, 2014, 07:42:16 pm ---Everytime you connect an XP machine to the internet you will be attacked. Period.
--- End quote ---
That's simply not the true and overly dramatic unless you make your home page an attack site. I'm still running XP on an install from 2011, no problems, I use multiple malware/virus scanners and I've only had one malware detection (false positive) in the past 2 years. I never bought into a 'hype' about windows XP being compromised just because MS dropped support and updates for it. That assumes that MS updates are what keep Windows computers secure in the first place. Obviously not true.
That being said I'm upgrading to Windows 7 VERY soon (I know I keep saying that but I will be! Promise :P)
MS is trying to entice people into newer versions of windows by locking new DirectX versions to them. That's the only real reason to upgrade but it's a moot point since the entire graphics technology industry is moving away from the DirectX api over to OpenGL because of less overhead and also nobody wants their graphics features locked to Windows 8, 9 etc when the adoption rates are so poor. (Why else do you think MS is offering Windows 9 to Windows 8 customers for free?).
Jonathon [SSL]:
I mean, XP was nice, but it's time is far over I think.
I used Vista when it was new, I had zero issues and liked it.
I used Windows 7 when it was new, I had zero issues and loved it.
I waited a few years to upgrade to Windows 8.1. Getting over the slightly different program launching system look some getting used to, but overall I think it's a fine (not great) OS that is an improvement over its successor. Just disable all the metro stuff and you basically have a sleek and faster version of Windows 7.
mbsurfer:
Since support for XP has been dropped, if there is a single virus that can affect an XP machine, that means that virus can affect EVERY XP machine. Then virus and malware software don't have to update for XP systems, since support for XP has been officially dropped. That's why it isn't safe.
Enzo.Matrix:
Put 10 on my laptop. I like the changes so far.
The hybrid start was all it really needed. And also fixing the stupidity of metro apps.
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