Of course I noticed.
It was right before I installed a new OS.
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Yeah, wouldn't installing a new OS be the most common scenario in which one would "turn off [OS] for the last time"?
Leave OP be, they just yeet their machine outta window and buy a new one.
Why do you think MS advises to do that for Win 10?
You make a compelling point.
Not for me. I have no idea when I last shut off an xp machine. My first free computer came with 98se, and my first purchased PC had windows 7 installed. At some point, I shut off an xp machine, either for school or at the library or whatever, and I have no idea when that was.
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I absolutely noticed, I was holding a Win 7 install disk with my other hand, how would this come as a surprise?
Well it was two days ago because I found some old VM backups and booted them for nostalgia. Win 7 really was the best
If only because it was the last windows to have the windows classic theme.
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ROFL. I still manage a critical system that cannot be moved from XP.
That day, for me, is in the far future.
Healthcare, banking, or military?
Auto manufacturing.
I work in a manufacturing automation world. I still use xp.
Yup, I use a million dollar system that runs on XP. We updated the computer last year. They sent us a PC that dual boots XP and Win10. Win10 so it can connect to the internet and pull updates. XP so it can run the control program, which is written in Flash.
One of our Scanning Electron Microscopes runs Win7. Not great, it's not allowed on the network because of this.
Oh yeah, I swear that two years ago Southwest had a total crash of their systems because they still had NT4 machines.
One day you released the latch on your 5-1/4 floppy drive and removed the Prince of Persia diskette for the last time and didn't realise.
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speak for yourself. I still use XP.
Unfortunately I do too. I work in a lotto office. The lotto machines are over 20 years old and run XP Embedded. Thankfully the computers where we do most of the actual work have modern CPUs and NVMEs running a modern OS.
The last time I turned off XP was a few months ago when I replaced it with Linux Mint on a PC I use to play old games in my room (because I wanted to play old MMOs and that required internet access, which XP would not have been safe for.)
What are you talking about? Of course I noticed. It was during the upgrade process to Vista. Then the last time I turned that off was when I fully switched to Linux.
I noticed. This was around 2008-2010. I had a dinosaur of a machine sitting around and wanted to see what would happen if I connected XP to "the modern web."
I did a complete wipe and reinstall, installed either SP2 or SP3, whatever the last version was. Ensured that I had the latest drivers for all the hardware, and connected the Ethernet cable.
Result: Complete system lockdown in less than 5 seconds due to being taken over by bots. The system was unable to reboot on that particular install of XP. I reinstalled XP, got it functioning again, wrapped the computer in an anti static bag, and put it in my storage unit, knowing I would likely never touch the machine again.
I know this might be cliche but you could try putting Linux on it. We have old laptot that can't really run windows anymore but Linux runs fine on it.
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Yeah, I remember that I left Empire: Total War open for a few hours and it smelted my video card.
Next PC came with Vista and I loved it
It happened when Battlefield Bad Company 2 released. XP couldn't support it so I had to bite the bullet and switch over to Windows 7. At least I held out long enough to avoid Vista. Incidentally that was also the first and last game I bought for EA's shitty Origin launcher.
me, applying sketchy system tweaks and wrenching control of my PC away from itself so that I can control my own settings again:
"The hell I did"
Nah I got a Windows XP VM for work! I love it!
That one specialty printer at work that's not important enough to upgrade, but still gets used...
At least it's not allowed on the network.
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
“It’s all safe now… sweet dreams, old friend”
True, but it booted Win 7 next, so it’s not like I was leaving windows.
I noticed. When Windows XP came out I saw the enshitification right away. Never mind the play-skool colors and complete lack of security. I couldn't believe that people were going to be willing to use that crap.
I moved away from it for me and my business fairly quickly, and that was that.
I did notice over the years as winxp went away in public spaces and hotels. It was always kind of nice to know there were free to use computers out in the wild if one wanted to use them. XP was never able to be locked down, so you could bypass any login and just use it if you wanted to. Never for anything important, but I could always load up some games on the hotel one and let the kids play on it for fun for example.
I hear your security concerns but what timeline were you living on?
- 95 was revolutionary but buggy AF
- NT I didn't have much to do with
- 98 was a patch to fix the bugs in 95
- 98 SE was mostly stable and a decent is, plus USB
- ME was a piece of shit excuse to something
- 2000 was decent. XP v1
- XP finally made a stable os, because it got rid of the shit we dragged in from 95
- Vista was hot garbage
- 7 fixed vista an imo was the best is MS ever made
- 8 was more hot garbage because they lost the mobile war
- 10 was an apology for 8
- 11 is shareware / adware
Where did you find safe harbour in this shitshow?
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Except the last time I turn off an OS it's usually because it was BSOD and never came back. Then it's wiped and something new or it's reinstalled. Is it the same OS if it's reinstalled?
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cries in old laser printer
There's still an antivirus program out there for 32 bit xp and firefox supports a lot of the usual plugins. I wouldn't do online banking but I browsed the web on bare metal xp (the unofficial "integral edition") ealier this year and it was fine. It's not ideal but for some low level office stuff with little security concerns xp is kinda serviceable even today.
'2016. The computer was offline and connected to a machine.
Are we including the server editions because if so it was an exchange 2003 server I killed in 2019.
I noticed when I installed Win7. :^)
Pretty much anybody reading this still uses XP at least weekly if not daily.
It's still all over the place, ATMs, gasoline pumps, ticket machines, kiosks, ect, ect...
Some of you may even be sitting in a room with XP right now and not even realize it.
You may have forgotten it, but it is still there, waiting, watching, ready blue screen for just no reason at all.
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It never stops to amaze me how many factories still depend on win-xp (yes, win-xp!). It was always too expensive to upgrade the apps and machines. By now many will never happen anymore because now it's a multi-step upgrade and cost even more. And STILL they expect 2025 type, level and quality support.
I did it with joy, because I used it for a few days to implement and test an SMBv3 to v1 Bridge (fuck Trumpf for using embedded XP and using SMB for pulling blueprints, forcing the use of SMBv1), and it (as well as the Windows Server) was hell compared to Pop I was using at the time.
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