I absolutely noticed, I was holding a Win 7 install disk with my other hand, how would this come as a surprise?
W.XP
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kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Or it was the day my old ass laptop broke.
6/12/2007. Never forget.kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
o7
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
o7
kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Well it was two days ago because I found some old VM backups and booted them for nostalgia. Win 7 really was the best
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Aero my beloved
Alk@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I will always miss it. I love the glass aesthetic. It never went out of style in my head.
DosDude@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
If only because it was the last windows to have the windows classic theme.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yes, but this is Win XP not Win 7.
kalpol@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Some old VMs, not one. Had 95,98SE,XP, 7, and 8.1. Also found NT install disks.
GCanuck@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ROFL. I still manage a critical system that cannot be moved from XP.
That day, for me, is in the far future.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I work in a manufacturing automation world. I still use xp.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I took courses in actionscript 😂😥😥😂😂
lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Flash
Diabolical
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 month ago
ActionScript ? or is Flash something else ?
ODuffer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One of our Scanning Electron Microscopes runs Win7.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Oh yeah, I swear that two years ago Southwest had a total crash of their systems because they still had NT4 machines.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What have you done, a cruel person. Also, take my upvote
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
speak for yourself. I still use XP.
Psythik@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
RichieRich@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I hope it is a Virtual Machine? 😮
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
it’s a physical device. running on an old AMD Athlon X2 64 939.
I use it to play old retro games on. it is connected to the internet but browsers don’t really work on it anymore. Usually I find the old web root or ftp sites on my main and download them directly in xp.
PartyAt15thAndSummit@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
hospital, not unlikely
hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
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.
Sombyr@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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.)
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Emi@ani.social 1 month ago
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.
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just switched my win10 laptop to opensuse tumbleweed (trying it out) and didn’t realized how accustomed i was to the slowness of boot, opening programs, lagging, etc
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
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
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Ewww, Vista.
That’s like stepping in something nasty
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Vista was good, actually.
Like fuck aero but it was glanced, the chess, the useless performance metric, the ugliness and the final straw before switching to Linux
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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.
markz@suppo.fi 1 month ago
Good news, origin is dead! And the replacement is… worse?
atlas@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
to the surprise of absolutely no one
sad_detective_man@leminal.space 1 month ago
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”
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 month ago
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
MFW I use Windows ME
It was a Compaq…and I threw it down a flight of stairs. True story
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
“It’s all safe now… sweet dreams, old friend”
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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.
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Left because of XP. Win 2000 was fine. XP started all of the crap. It was when you needed to have a corporate key to actually control the computer and have all the features that win 2000 did. The colors were awful and the design was piss poor of course, but I could have dealt with that.
This was when Microsoft began introducing online accounts. They started trying to really wedge explorer into everything. You could buy music online with them, but ONLY with explorer. There were three programs that were forced on everyone (I forget what they are now). People didn’t like it so they gave people a “remover”, and was supposed to remove those programs. Except they lied, and all it did was hid the icons.
The writing was on the wall. Win XP was when MS jumped the shark and began the decline. I could see it in real time and wanted nothing more to do with them. So Linux it was.
Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I’d argue that 8.1 was an apology for 8 that never got accepted, 10 an enshitified version of what 8 could have been if Microsoft shareholders didn’t decide they wanted a slice of that sweet sweet mobile market.
Anyway, anything past 7 has/had unacceptable privacy violations. And that alone makes them shitte, even regardless of everything else.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
True, but it booted Win 7 next, so it’s not like I was leaving windows.
Luci@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Nah I got a Windows XP VM for work! I love it!
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
cries in old laser printer
Sabata11792@ani.social 1 month ago
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.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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?
serenissi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
depends,
if you reinstall packages one by one? it is
if you replace it wholly? different
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
TheseusOS
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 month ago
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.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I noticed when I installed Win7. :^)
30p87@feddit.org 1 month ago
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.
Egonallanon@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Are we including the server editions because if so it was an exchange 2003 server I killed in 2019.
redlemace@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.crater2150@feddit.org 1 month ago
Thanks to Crowdstrike I know that at least the checkouts in shops and some ATMs here use Windows 8 or newer, because of the new blue screen design (don’t remember if they had the QR code, which would mean at least Windows 10)
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
- The computer was offline and connected to a machine.
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I used windows XP today because the phase noise analyzer at work runs on it.
We’re not allowed to connect it to the network, though.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
You can pry this peak UI from my cold, dead hands: github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc
essell@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Of course I noticed.
It was right before I installed a new OS.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 month ago
Yeah, wouldn’t installing a new OS be the most common scenario in which one would “turn off [OS] for the last time”?
Demdaru@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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?
Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For me it’s playing around with an old machine years later.