- The computer was offline and connected to a machine.
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.
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.
What have you done, a cruel person. Also, take my upvote
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.
True, but it booted Win 7 next, so it’s not like I was leaving windows.
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.
Was sometime in January 2009, switched to Linux.
Of course I noticed.
It was right before I installed a new OS.
Yeah, wouldn’t installing a new OS be the most common scenario in which one would “turn off [OS] for the last time”?
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.
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.
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.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)
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
“It’s all safe now… sweet dreams, old friend”
reminds of the poor xp vms ;). I still have disk images somewhere I believe.
(never used xp on a hardware personally though)
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?
depends,
if you reinstall packages one by one? it is
if you replace it wholly? different
TheseusOS
Well it was two days ago because I found some old VM backups and booted them for nostalgia. Win 7 really was the best
Yes, but this is Win XP not Win 7. Edit: I suppose there backups could have had both 7 and XP.
Some old VMs, not one. Had 95,98SE,XP, 7, and 8.1. Also found NT install disks.
Aero my beloved
If only because it was the last windows to have the windows classic theme.
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
Ewww, Vista.
That’s like stepping in something nasty
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
Are we including the server editions because if so it was an exchange 2003 server I killed in 2019.
