seachnasaigh opened this issue on Apr 26, 2014 ยท 50 posts
mrsparky posted Sat, 26 April 2014 at 9:05 PM
Despite the news the 8.1 update will have a "start" menu, from what when fixing it I've seen not a fan. While it's great for touchscreens, phones and new users, find it's spartan-ness doesn't give as much control as previous versions. So even if we could afford to upgrade we'd go for 7 and cost is where the real crux is. Most of the machines here couldn't run 7 even if we wanted them too. So why junk 4 perfectly good working machines, just because MS wants us to spend more money ? Moreso with extras like office, which now has to be 'rented' yearly. No thanks, same with things from adobe and others, stuff your greed it's open source for us. Plus lets not forget theres 1000's of XP machines out there, which lots lots of security companies will be offering excellent protection for. Many ISP's also now offer free or cheap network/pre-PC security, so some of that, good ad/banner/blocking software and some common sense, I can't see any major issues with using XP.