Windows XP reaches end-of-life!

Are you still using Windows XP?

Yes, I still use Windows XP.	33.3%	[ 6 ]
No. I don't use Windows XP.	55.6%	[ 10 ]
No, I don't use Windows.	11.1%	[ 2 ]
Total Votes:			[ 18 ]

[Resistance_2012]

The stop of Windows XP updates isn't a big deal to most people because they have either upgraded, never had Windows XP or use it for other uses like backing up their home server and such and offline work.

[nitrocat]

Jin-Andrews

i wish microsoft would create an operating system that they can support for 100 years.

Quite impossible. No one has a clue as to what architecture we'll be using 100 years from now.

[Flamesaw-chan]

nitrocat

Jin-Andrews

i wish microsoft would create an operating system that they can support for 100 years.

Quite impossible. No one has a clue as to what architecture we'll be using 100 years from now.

extrapolating from past experience, it'll still be x86 based.

[psychic stalker]

Flamesaw-chan

nitrocat

Jin-Andrews

i wish microsoft would create an operating system that they can support for 100 years.

Quite impossible. No one has a clue as to what architecture we'll be using 100 years from now.

extrapolating from past experience, it'll still be x86 based.

Not for long. The architecture is reaching the limits of what Intel and AMD can push it to do. That, combined with the strong push for more efficient architectures in the datacenter, and the ubiquity of ARM on mobile devices, I don't see x86 lasting more than another 10 years, if that.

AMD has already bet the farm on ARM on the server, and even Intel seems to be looking into getting a new ISA. x86 is simply too complicated to make it efficient - more and more silicon is dedicated to just the x86 instruction decoder, and it's not going to get any smaller as long as they keep bolting more extensions onto it.