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Microsoft has no plans for a second Windows 7 Service Pack You don't like it? Hey - had you thought of Windows 8?

#21 User is offline   jaclaz 

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Posted 30 October 2012 - 05:00 AM

View Postcluberti, on 29 October 2012 - 07:38 PM, said:

Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express

With all due respect :), who does actually care from what device did you post that? :w00t: :unsure:

Posted from a real PC running XP SP2, using Opera Browser 9.52. ;)
:lol:

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Posted 30 October 2012 - 07:11 AM

It's probably an automatic message added by that Board Express application :whistle:

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Posted 30 October 2012 - 09:35 AM

View Posttomasz86, on 30 October 2012 - 07:11 AM, said:

It's probably an automatic message added by that Board Express application :whistle:

Sure :), I know, the IPad and the blackberry do the same and it is considered (by me and a few other people around) a form of "netiquette" to remove it as it:
  • senselessly "promotes" the device/application (and you don't get any money for it)
  • could (though this is specifically not the case for a Lumia 900 :whistle: ) cause a sense of "envy" to the readers that would like (but cannot afford) a "desirable" item


Think a bit about it, when you send a letter (a real, handwritten, paper letter), do you actually write on it below your signature:

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Written with a Parker pen on paper from Staples, delivered through Royal Mail

:unsure:

When you take your mom somewhere, do you put on her back a sign ;):

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Brought here on a Ford Fiesta through roads and streets mantained by the City Council of xyz


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Posted 30 October 2012 - 09:44 AM

Oh grow up. :)

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Posted 30 October 2012 - 10:00 AM

View Postcluberti, on 30 October 2012 - 09:44 AM, said:

Oh grow up. :)

Oww, come on :)

Ray Bradbury said:

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

... just having some fun, but actually ;)

Sophocles said:

A man growing old becomes a child again.


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Posted 30 October 2012 - 05:47 PM

View Postcluberti, on 29 October 2012 - 07:38 PM, said:

Microsoft has never extended a product's supportability lifecycle due to a service pack.


sorry but I disagree

XP SP0, SP1 and 2 are gone from any support
Vista SP 0 and 1 same

by support I mean hotfixes and telphone help/support

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Posted 31 October 2012 - 03:33 PM

Microsoft's support for the product itself does not change, but support for older service packs are indeed dropped because you should always be running the latest service pack supported to continue to get security hotfixes. My statement still stands - Microsoft has not altered a product's supportability lifecycle due to a service pack. Do not misconstrue a product (Windows XP) with a service pack - Microsoft supports older service packs on a "best effort" basis, but if the problem you call in about is fixed in an update included in a later service pack, you will be told to upgrade. Hence, if you're having issues you should always get on the latest service pack and then update the box before tshooting anyway.

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Posted 31 October 2012 - 05:09 PM

I'm not surprised at all.

Microsoft have now realised that Apps are the way to go and they are trying to move into Apple's arena.

If they could I'm sure they would forget about Windows 7 completely because it is now obsolete in their big plans for apps and tablets etc..

As much as I find it annoying that there are over 200mb of updates, I can understand why Microsoft are doing this.. Sooner they forget Windows 7 and move people onto Windows 8 and app stores etc the better..

That's where the future is... Apps.... They know it and Apple knew it a few years ago.

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Posted 31 October 2012 - 09:05 PM

except there s the human (consumer) factor
where people if hate X product simply dump it

hence why XP is still used in both private and state companies to-day

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Posted 31 October 2012 - 09:32 PM

XP is used because it isn't broken, most enterprises still use old apps, and upgrades cost money. It has nothing to do with the technical merits of XP versus Windows 7 or Windows 8, it's a fiscal decision. It's cheaper for them (until 2014, anyway) to upgrade at the cheapest pace possible, and that might include not at all.

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Posted 01 November 2012 - 03:09 AM

View Postcluberti, on 29 October 2012 - 07:38 PM, said:

Sent from my Lumia 900 using Board Express


View Postjaclaz, on 30 October 2012 - 05:00 AM, said:

Posted from a real PC running XP SP2, using Opera Browser 9.52. ;)



View Postjaclaz, on 30 October 2012 - 09:35 AM, said:

View Posttomasz86, on 30 October 2012 - 07:11 AM, said:

It's probably an automatic message added by that Board Express application :whistle:

Sure :), I know, the IPad and the blackberry do the same and it is considered (by me and a few other people around) a form of "netiquette" to remove it as it:
  • senselessly "promotes" the device/application (and you don't get any money for it)
  • could (though this is specifically not the case for a Lumia 900 :whistle: ) cause a sense of "envy" to the readers that would like (but cannot afford) a "desirable" item

I like:

Ex nominis expers supertabula mea missa. :hello:

It does not "promote" anything except, perhaps, the use of macaronic Latin.
I sometimes add it to my replies to e-mails sent from any of those ipso-omphalocentric mobiles. :D

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Posted 01 November 2012 - 06:29 AM

View Postdencorso, on 01 November 2012 - 03:09 AM, said:

I like:

Ex nominis expers supertabula mea missa. :hello:

It does not "promote" anything except, perhaps, the use of macaronic Latin.
I sometimes add it to my replies to e-mails sent from any of those ipso-omphalocentric mobiles. :D


Bene intelligo tuae rationes. :thumbup

Hoc nuntium ab innominato instrumento missum erat.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 01:21 AM

i dont even update my win 7 is there a need for updates?
every time i done it on xp it slowed it down only time it was good was when i built an intergrated disc with all updates, but cbf doing that with win7

This post has been edited by b-man: 02 November 2012 - 01:22 AM

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 02:19 AM

Yes there is a need to update in a timely fashion. Otherwise you are susceptible to hacks.
Updates don't slow down systems. It must have been something else. 99% of the time all updates do is replace a system file with a patched, higher version number.

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Posted 02 November 2012 - 01:52 PM

View Postjaclaz, on 01 November 2012 - 06:29 AM, said:

View Postdencorso, on 01 November 2012 - 03:09 AM, said:

I like:

Ex nominis expers supertabula mea missa. :hello:

It does not "promote" anything except, perhaps, the use of macaronic Latin.
I sometimes add it to my replies to e-mails sent from any of those ipso-omphalocentric mobiles. :D


Bene intelligo tuae rationes. :thumbup

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Posted 04 November 2012 - 03:12 PM

View Postcluberti, on 31 October 2012 - 09:32 PM, said:

XP is used because it isn't broken, most enterprises still use old apps, and upgrades cost money. It has nothing to do with the technical merits of XP versus Windows 7 or Windows 8, it's a fiscal decision. It's cheaper for them (until 2014, anyway) to upgrade at the cheapest pace possible, and that might include not at all.


Still it has to do with the quality and value of Windows XP themselves - at least that's what I believe. The fact that Windows XP is the most succesfull version of Windows until now isn't sheare coincidence, is it? I believe that the Microsoft's big mistake is that they tried to make something better than it without using it as a stable basis. Perhaps it was the basis for Windows Vista but they thought that people were lacking 3D Windows and transparency... and messed the whole thing with UAC. Now Windows 8 make me feel rather sad - thanks God they finally have a desktop and there are numerus solutions for the lack of the Start Menu. I don't question the OS capabilities but it just doesn't make you happy - if you know what I mean. It rather puzzles you.

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Posted 04 November 2012 - 09:02 PM

actually the "3D windows" was more than necessary move
XP has GDI object limitation imposed, for example I had problem when used a theme(skin) and opened 10 apps
OS would refuse to work, no new window would open nor draw, task manager would refuse to run
no explorer window would open

I'd be greeted by beep-error sound
this was common problem and the only solution was vista's desktop composition engine (desktop window manager/DWM)
with that user has no such limitation problems at all

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Posted 05 November 2012 - 10:19 AM

View PostHarryTri, on 04 November 2012 - 03:12 PM, said:

Still it has to do with the quality and value of Windows XP themselves - at least that's what I believe. I believe that the Microsoft's big mistake is that they tried to make something better than it without using it as a stable basis. Perhaps it was the basis for Windows Vista but they thought that people were lacking 3D Windows and transparency... and messed the whole thing with UAC.


you can believe what you want but this is not correct ;)

XP has only grown that much because Vista was delayed. A lot of companies wanted to skip XP and stay at 2000, but because of the Vista delay they were forced to upgrade because they didn't wanted to use a Windows which is out of mainstream support.

And VISTA is the EXTREMELY STABLE BASIS for Windows 7 and Windows 8 :lol:

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Posted 30 November 2012 - 07:59 PM

View Postvinifera, on 04 November 2012 - 09:02 PM, said:

actually the "3D windows" was more than necessary move
XP has GDI object limitation imposed, for example I had problem when used a theme(skin) and opened 10 apps
OS would refuse to work, no new window would open nor draw, task manager would refuse to run
no explorer window would open

I'd be greeted by beep-error sound
this was common problem and the only solution was vista's desktop composition engine (desktop window manager/DWM)
with that user has no such limitation problems at all


I dunno why your skin would hog them up.

That's not common with NT-based Windows.

It was common with non-NT-based versions.

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Posted 30 November 2012 - 11:55 PM

View Postvinifera, on 04 November 2012 - 09:02 PM, said:

actually the "3D windows" was more than necessary move
XP has GDI object limitation imposed, for example I had problem when used a theme(skin) and opened 10 apps
OS would refuse to work, no new window would open nor draw, task manager would refuse to run
no explorer window would open

I'd be greeted by beep-error sound
this was common problem and the only solution was vista's desktop composition engine (desktop window manager/DWM)
with that user has no such limitation problems at all


Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 have a configurable GDI object limit (via the registry) that defaults to 10,000 objects per process (but a theoretical maximum of 65,536 for the entire session. The reason the behavior you describe happens on XP is because the shared desktop heap is limited. Increase it and XP will scale beautifully on modern systems:


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