Apparently that's what 'XP' stands for. And this 8th April 2014 is the day it all comes to an end. Here's what Microsoft told me I would gain by switching to 8.1:
Good - so Windows 8.1 will do the things XP does for me and, good gracious! - it will do even more - but hang on, I don't actually want any of the extra things it will do for me...
The amazing thing is that, for all the wonder of 8.1, not many people are actually using it. This is the lie of the land according to Wikipedia - a whopping 27% of desktops are still running XP, almost 3 times that running Windows 8!
There's a good deal of scare tactics abroad - reminds me of Y2000 - for example the Irish Independent has: A NEW wave of computer viruses will target the computers of 300,000 Irish people tomorrow, as the country's third most popular computer system is cut off from security support by Microsoft. That sudden, really?
Of course, I know I will be forced to migrate to 8.1 (or at least to 7) eventually. But I am hoping to defer this to when I upgrade my computer, rather than experience the misery and expense of upgrading just the operating system.
Finally a bit of nostalgia - you may never see this panorama again...
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