Xp & Sp3 & Rdp

[steeb]

OK,

running XP, so against all advice out there against it I installed SP3 onto my Client PC.

Well I RDP into that without normally my wife not knowing, and tweak settings etc, etc, she doesn't know I'm there

Until last week when I booted her out of Eastenders!

Got the fix tonight and messed about whilst GBPVR/PVRX2 was running, she watched, I tweaked, she never knew, again.

RDP'ing into the client without anyone having to log off is good.

I'm not sure if I like the end of XP, it's certainly been a long journey.....

But I've grown to love it.

Suppose I should welcome Vista?

Cheers

Steeb

[steeb]

Well agree, but the threat is they will support no more after the famous sell by date of XP to Vista (that keeps moving!)

And what about Buill G now, moving on as CEO is that what i've heard

Steeb

[mvallevand]

That's not really a fair comparison, unless you truly believe corporate needs are going to be the same as HTPC users needs, from now until 2014 (the end of Windows XP).

Martin

[steeb]

Martin,

is that the official cut of 1014?

Well I didn't know....

Nice

Steeb

[mvallevand]

That would have been Windows MXIV I guess. Yes 2014 is the year and we are starting the ever-greening at work to be prepared.

Martin

[steeb]

Opps 2014, where did 1014 come from

Maybe I'm going back to basics

Steeb

[ailema]

well theres all a threat to this OS its just how we handle this operations

[Deusxmachina]

The new MS OS will be out apparently around 2010, late 2009 wouldn't surprise me, so I don't see much point in going from XP to Vista unless there's a specific reason.

[bdgbill]

During one of my rare visits to the office this month, my boss looked at the yellowing keyboard and worn out plastic on my circa 2005 Compaq and said "How about we go get you a new laptop?".

He said this the way you may say "Lets go to the toy store" to a four year old. He was flabbergasted when I said "Umm no thanks. I like this one" (I am known as a major tech whore in my company).

I am going to try to skip Vista entirely. I'm hoping MS learned their lesson and will make the next version much more XP like. I just don't have the time to learn a new OS at the moment. I'm also used to using XP on a 3Ghz machine. Every Vista machine I have touched has felt intolerably slow (including a dual core machine maxed out on RAM).

[HtV]

I'm hoping MS learned their lesson and will make the next version much more XP like. I just don't have the time to learn a new OS at the moment.

I wouldn't count on it. Normally it gets worse every time, at least that's what we think/feel when we use it first time. I think Vista runs very fine on my laptop. ( dual core, 3GB mem). But I still can't say I'm used to it yet.

Hans