Archive for June 30th, 2008
End of an Era…
Posted by Jeff Evans in General on June 30, 2008
Today is the last day that Windows XP will be sold on store shelves. Personally, I did go out over the weekend and get picked up a copy. I have shifted almost entirely over to the Macbook that I got last year – the last time I even used my Windows laptop was before moving it over to the new house… prior to that, its use was intermittent since getting the Mac…
I still have things on the Windows machine that I either need to transfer over (documents, etc.), or that can only run on a Windows machine (mostly games, I digress, which I seldom play anyway)… But the fundamental issue falls back to versions. In the limited instances that I have played with Vista, I have not really been impressed (it was easier for me to learn how to use a Mac over learning Vista). Also, with all of the known issues with Vista, if I can avoid it at all, I plan to try…
Which brings me to why I bought the copy of XP… I have been toying with the idea of getting Parallels or some other OS emulation environment. When I get to that point, I’m going to want XP, not Vista.
It may not be opened for a while, but at least I have it.