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Yesterday Microsoft ended support for Windows XP. While many users and even businesses continue to cling to the venerable OS there will be no further security updates and even with active anti-virus and malware protection, many users will be left unsecure reports the LA Times and various other news outlets.
There are some exceptions for the right customers.
The UK and Dutch governments have paid Microsoft multiple millions to extend support for Windows XP past the 8 April cutoff date.
The UK extension cost £5.5m but is only valid for a year, after which public-sector users will have to be moved to newer software.
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(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday April 10 2014, @05:20AM
So I looked up the Hairyfeet Challenge, and... I see it's made the big time!
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/75498.html [linuxinsider.com]
I'd say the CLI is not dead, but in today's computing world we cannot expect average users to struggle with it.
I've suggested a solution many times, and got nothing but derision from the fanboys:
Linux needs a hybrid config tool, where one can use a GUI like Win config tools use, and simultaneously see what is changed in the config textfile.(This can't be too complicated to code; HTML editors have done it for going-on 20 years.) That way the confused have a simple tool, while the interested have a chance to learn what they really just did. But noooo, in linux either you're a total expert who never needs anything but vi and bash, or you're a total ninny who can't be trusted away from the GUI. There's no provision for the user who falls between.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday April 10 2014, @06:15AM
Hell I once wrote an article "What I need to be able to support your product" or something like that where I laid out frankly the most common sense stuff you could think of, like a guarantee of the drivers not changing for 5 years, a "help!" button that would be staffed by volunteers that could help them with newbie problems, a "rollback drivers" button (which has existed in windows since Windows 2000, we're talking 14 fricking years ago) and what did I get for pointing out what should only be common sense? I got told I was a shill, that "it works for me!", that those problems didn't actually exist, and that "they should embrace the power of CLI"...I LOLed damned hard at THAT one, you'd think that a command line interface was the fricking force instead of a GUI from the 70s LOL!
It was not too long after this I just gave up and left the nutters to their delusions. I mean for fuck's sake you have been giving the product away for TWENTY years and you are STILL lower than the margin for error? Hell the netbook was practically BUILT for Linux and the SECOND that MSFT lowered the price of XP the customers ran away as fast as their legs could carry them, but somehow that is the problem of the USER, not the OS, because they won't do things YOUR way?
What is sad is I made the Hairyfeet Challenge to be 1.- Easily reproducible, 2.- To use NO funky hardware,strictly the bog standard off the shelf stuff I see every day, 3.- To only have HALF the support cycle of Windows, which is frankly an unfair test in favor of Linux but that is because too many of the so called "user friendly" distros haven't even existed for 10 years which is the standard Windows lifecycle. I have said time and time again "If you think your distro can do it? follow the steps, put it on YouTube, its not hard to do" and ALL I ever get is insults, not a single taker. of course i know why, its because while they'll give you anecdotes all day when the rubber meets the road they too find one or more drivers DOA after update. Its a shame but that is why I cannot in good conscience offer linux machines, they just don't work for any length of time without showstopper issues.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.