So about two weeks ago a message was sent to my laptop from Windows informing me that they will no longer will be supporting Window Xp, the OS I use for my laptop. They have been supporting Xp for twelve yrs which I know in OS yrs is forever. My question is what OS system should I upgrade too?
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Jump to PostFrom the Microsoft portfolio, I'd say give Win 7 a try since you can easily apply a windows classic theme so it will look and feel like an XP machine using a classic theme. I'm not find of Win 8.x and I'm not thrilled about what I've seen so far …
Jump to PostId say that if you have a good machine, since you are familiar with windows, try Win 7, then install VurtualBox and give Linux a try as a guest VM and learn something new. The advantage of the VMs are that you can move the files from machine to machine …
Jump to PostI would presume that your laptop is fairly old, right? Like from the time that XP still came pre-installed on new computers. If that's the case, I'm not too optimistic about getting a newer version of Windows (which would be Windows 7, as the others suck) to work smoothly on …
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