Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 24th Apr 2008 22:20 UTC
Right now, the net is abuzz about remarks Steve Ballmer made at a Belgium news conference today. The buzz comes from a Reuters story which quotes Ballmer as saying that Windows XP's life cycle might be extended if customers demand it. Contrary to what all those reports online might indicate, there really is no change in policy here.
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You may consider to try Server 2008 (free for 240 days). I installed the 64 bit version one month ago and it's doing very good so far, even enabling Aero with all the bells and whistles. I "officially" got it to try developing on a 64 bit Windows, but World of Warcraft plays just as nice as it does in XP.
But of course that's on my new machine, a Pentium Dual Core E2180 @ 2.5 GHz with 4 GB of RAM, and an 8600GT 512 MB. I'm mostly concerned about memory usage (takes 1 GB just to do, well, nothing), but I think it could run on much older hardware.
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I didn't mention Server 2003 just as an amusing note. I see an opportunity here for Microsoft to silently promote Server 2003 to people who demand Windows XP. This would avoid the loss of face for Microsoft.
Just yesterday I made the switch from XP to 2003. I used to run 2003, then switched to XP (I believe I lost my 2003 disc/case with the license attached), but somehow, I never felt at home in XP. So, I downloaded the trial of Server 2003, which works for 180 days, and now I feel all happy again. It's slightly faster than XP too.
So, 179 days left to get my hands on a cheap 2003 license