The Shadou blogs

I was browsing the ‘Net looking for Visual Styles to change my Windows  interface (got bored with it again). I decided to drop by TGTSoft again for StyleXP. Somewhere in the StyleXP page was this line:

"Also, see XP at the Microsoft site: Windows XP Tours & Demos"

I clicked the link…

and then I saw this:

["The facts about the future: Microsoft Windows XP"]
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsxp/future.mspx 

Well,
I thought that WinXP, being so successful an operating system as it is,
would be "forever". I’m not really that comfortable having to relearn a
lot about a new OS. I haven’t tried
the new OS, but based on what I’ve been hearing and reading, I hate
Vista for being so buggy and unsupported. Or unsupportive. Guess, I’ll have to really learn the new OS then. My hardware is ready now, anyway.

All
is not lost however, for the site said that the discontinuance of
Windows XP will only be by sales, but support will continue until 2014.*

Well, yeah, right. (It depends on what you’d believe… read on…) Ever heard of the Mayan Doomsday Prophecy? I learned about it through Raymond Lazaro
– a brilliant friend with a penchant for the "eccentric" (all geniuses
were eccentric) — who read about it last year, I think, which led me
to follow it through the ‘Net and finally getting a hold of a copy of The History Channel’s episode. That’s actually just barely two years beyond the Mayan Calendar’s date of doomsday (12-21-2012), so that date (2014) may just be a fallacy =’)

Have a nice day, everyone.
c",)

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*Well,
they should. They just released Service Pack 3 — and I’ve already
installed it — a few weeks (2 months?) ago, and it still isn’t as
spiffy as it should be (as I’ve heard).