Running Windows 8.1 64 on all my machines. I got one XP setup in my lab but that's for retro gaming 😀

All my PCs have WinXp as the main or as the second OS.
And yes, I don't use the Windows 8.x shit at all.

Windows XP is still my main and newest OS I have installed on my (and my fathers) main machines. He said he will probably only upgrade when he has to, so basically when software stops supporting XP, and I will probably be much the same. My main PC is 7 years old now, and I cannot be arsed upgrading the OS. Besides, I have an odd fascination that if I leave the machine be, when I just build a new one and store my current one for a few years, it will be really fun just exploring it when I come to look at it again. 😊

Dad used Windows 3.1 right up until Win98SE came out. He said he never liked the feel of Windows 95, and well we all know what the first edition of Windows 98 was like. We (or at least I) was on Windows 98se as my main machine even after the point where my games no longer supported it, I guess I finally switched to XP after all the messing around back and forth in 2007.

For the working stuff i use OSX and for gaming (when it's not on retro hardware like C64 or Amiga) i use windows. So on my main gaming PC i installed Windows XP, 7 and 8.0 (still wonder that XP runns fine on that machine). On my second GamePC (Pentium II-350) I installed Dos 6.22 and Windows 98 Se (next i want to install Windows 95 on it, but not sure yet what version).

I use XP SP3 on secondaries.

I still have a few boxes with XP on them, mostly for testing purposes. Namely, the software my company develops is aimed at being as resource-friendly as possible. Which implies that it also works on older machines (which should be part of the charm/selling point of our software: just use a machine for it that you thought was useless). Being older machines, it's likely that they also still run XP, so XP compatibility is still an important issue for me.

And well, I personally feel that if it takes virtually no extra effort to support a certain OS/system/platform/whatever, then you should. Even if the platform is not going to be used much, it is quite valuable to test your software on as many configurations as possible, to weed out all weird bugs.
Our software uses Direct3D, and D3D9 on XP is quite a different beast from D3D9(Ex) on Vista+. If you really want to make sure your resource management is working properly (resetting lost devices, re-initializing dynamic resources etc), then you should really test this under XP.

I don't, I hate tearing. Desktop composition is essential for me, so nothing older than Vista. Obviously a ton of other reasons I prefer Vista+, but that's the biggest one.

All the features I would miss from XP in Vista+ are already covered by 7+ Taskbar Tweaker and Classic Shell. Two programs I would recommend to anyone who's upgrading from XP to any modern OS and don't want to significantly change the way they work. I've had the same UI setup since Windows 95.

I haven't found a single game I've wanted to play that hasn't worked acceptably in some form under Windows 8.1. Windows 8.1 obviously is a compatibility hit, but not as everyone who hates Win8.1 for different reasons wants you to believe.

I am running XP on both my primary rigs. Got windows 7 as secondary system to handle anything my xp rigs can't.

I don't see myself moving away from xp any time soon until I am forced to when programs become unusable on xp.

I will continue to use xp offline, I am sure, for many years to come.

My main systems have windows 7 64 bit installations.. I would use windows xp only for the retro thing and compatibility with older games.. (wouldnt use it for bank accounting or other important things.

I'm still using XP as my main operating system.
I plan to build a new machine when Windows 10 becomes available, but will also keep this XP system along side the new build.

WindowsXP in a virtual machine, Kubuntu main OS dual boot with hackintosh. Best of all worlds 😀

I use XP on my Athlon machine and on various computers at work. One of my colleages still uses DOS+Nortorn Commander on his 386DX for his daily needs. He's over 80 years old and the day that machine was bought - it was the fastest in the department - was almost yesterday for him. Yes, our department was exceptionally poor back in the days.

Bladeforce wrote:

WindowsXP in a virtual machine, Kubuntu main OS dual boot with hackintosh. Best of all worlds 😀

I read on the Internet that running Windows XP in a virtual machine wouldn't still be safe..

Only when I'm testing games for my compatibility list, no other reason for me to use it.

I use it for the games 98 can't handle well, like UT2K4. Went from 98SE to Linux for daily use, so XP's only ever been a game platform here.

This should be in Milliways.

I was, until last October. May run it again in a virtual machine to get some pesky old Windows games to work again!

I've never bothered to check how difficult it is to bypass product activation under Windows Vista or Windows 7, but I've never had trouble installing XP wherever I want, so it is the natural choice for secondary systems.

Last year I installed Windows 7 on 5 Desktops at work, replacing XP x64.
But all my personal systems, as well as the laptops at work, have Windows XP x86.