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[kraid]

I still wouldn't overhype this. It only helps M$ to boost their Win7/8 Sales.

Sure, sooner or later there might be an exploit, hack, w/e, but as for now i cannot find any evidence that this allready happened.

Also, a newer OS doesn't neccessarly mean that you're 100% safe.
Whenever a security breach has been found, all the systems using the OS are still vulnerable till the update which might come next tuesday fixes the issue.

The only way to make sure that your Computer isn't infected by something (no matter which OS you're using) is to disconnect (unplug) it from the internet and don't use any external media also used on other PCs (such as external HDDs, Flash drives, CD-R, etc.).

Everything else, OS Updates, FW and AV can potentially fail to protect you under certain circumastances.

Ofc. the risk is there and now even bigger then before for XP users and i wouldn't do anything sensible like banking anymore on a XP machine, but still i'd rather use an XP machine then running through a minefield, no matter if naked or not.

[soupcan]

You can continue running XP -- it's just  irresponsible to use for anything important, especially if connected to the internet. "M$," as you like to say, has been supporting that old turd for over a decade. It's time for it to die, even if it needs a pillow over the face. Any other platform will have forced you to upgrade long ago in order to continue receiving updates.

[Kratos]

Every customer I meet tells me how I can downgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 7 or XP.

People dislike the OS. Windows 8 is another Vista like operating system. Windows 9 will hopefully do better.

[ZombieChowNomNom]

W8 is not as bad as everyone says it is one you get used to the new menu structure... I'd go with W8, since pretty soon you will only be able to play games on W8.  Thats how microsoft does it^^

[StupidMarioBros1Fan[1138]]

W8 is not as bad as everyone says it is one you get used to the new menu structure... I'd go with W8, since pretty soon you will only be able to play games on W8.  Thats how microsoft does it^^

There are a few things that you can't do though, some programs don't have a windows 8 version, I can't find the compatibility folders for the life of me (Project64 1.6 uses those folders a lot, so I only get to use like half of the program on a windows

People dislike the OS. Windows 8 is another Vista like operating system. Windows 9 will hopefully do better.

Apparently the new OS is Windows 10, supposedly the name "Windows 9" can break lazy programming.
http://gizmodo.com/windows-10-may-have-gotten-its-name-because-of-lazy-cod-1641383218

[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]

Everytime you connect an XP machine to the internet you will be attacked. Period.

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 )

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.

[Kratos]

Windows 10 Tech Preview has a keylogger in the OS.

Windows 8 is the new Vista

Windows 7 is what you should have no matter what.

I like XP, but it doesnt support new hardware and support has ended. Im thinking to setup a offline XP machine for old games that work flawlessly on it.