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Guys at Microsoft are so considerate that they provide Windows users with a little tool called Microsoft WindowsXP EOS count down timer. The purpose of this software is to remind current WinXP users that WinXP will be phased out by the day 8 April 2014. It will tell users how many days there are left before M$ officially end of support of WinXP. Ironically, this little tool does NOT work on WinXP. It requires Windows Vista (I tried, it doesnt work with Windows7 either). And if you enlarge the interface of the count down timer, it will present you with a link that will lead you to a web page that tells you how to upgrade to Windows7.

If you are interested and you have Windows Vista installed on your computer, here's the downloading link:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... mer.gadget

A tool for XP users that only works with vistrash



Anyhow, I don't care when M$ stops supporting XP, I will move on when everyone else stops supporting it and nothing is compatible with it. The simple fact is I hate windows vistrash and windows 7 and I'm not using them.

:lol:

Yeah and XP probably is the most successful OS in M$'s history. After having been released about 10 years ago, there're still 3 years to go before M$ completely stop supporting it.

XP was great but I do like 7. It takes some getting used to, but it's not good in my opinion to get so stuck with one product that you can't be flexible enough to use another. I can take XP or 7, but I use 7 because it seems smoother to me.

Yeah. Windows7 is great too. I have Windows7 Ultrmate with SP1 installed on my PC and I have never encountered blue/black screen problem since the system was installed. The only problem is that my pc runs slowly. That's forgivable considering I only got 1GB RAM and a single core CPU.

That's definitely forgivable.

I actually have had two separate blue screen problems with drivers on my Windows 7 installation.

I stubbornly refuse to use anything but XP or linux. I may have 4GB RAM, but that doesn't mean I want the OS using it all up.

What a waste of RAM lol

If you optimize a 7 installation, you don't get bogged down very much. I could easily (and smoothly) run my computer on 2GB with multiple programs running simultaneously.

My computer is fine with 3GB.