How-to get Windows XP past the June 30th cutoff (or not)

Well with the June 30th cutoff fast approaching, PC World decided to take a look at your options for procuring an XP license after that date, but unfortunately, the picture isn't too pretty.

The problem with vista is that it looks great, but is a pain in the butt to do most things with. Security is not in creating extra steps for the user to jump through, security is taking those steps in the background without the user needing to worry about it. when you have to disable things like User control to make the OS less annoying, you've added a level of security that is in fact, useless.

Having said that, Vista is not near as bad as it's made out to be, and by that XP 2009 cut off, it will likely really shine. But Microsoft needs to take a serious look at why XP was so popular, and Vista so resisted. And they need to take notes from the Mac side of things and not wait years between massive updates. You spend 6+ years with one OS, of course you are going to be comfortable with it and resist change. More >>>