   How long will XP stick around?
  How long do you think it will take for XP to get phased out?  I ask because I purchased XP Pro fairly recently, and I don't really want/have interest in buying Vista.  XP does everything I could want, and I see no reason to give Microsoft more money.   
  My stepdad and brother-in-law both still use Windows 98.  My uncle still uses Windows 95.  Operating systems last as long as you use them.   ;  Stick around in the sense "People still use it" or stick around in the sense "MS still patch it?"People still use 98, even 95 to a lesser extent.Microsoft dropped support for 98 recently.  XP has at least 3-4 more years to go as a fully supported product.   ;  To be pedantic, XP isn't fully supported; MSFT dropped support for XP SP1 a few weeks ago.XP SP2 is still supported.   ;Microsoft says that mainstream support will end 2 years after Vista is released and Extended Support will end 5 years after that.   ;  alright.  Well, since this is GDNet, and since XP is apparently not going to support DX10, how long do you think it will take for serious gamers to need to upgrade to Vista?   ;  I used '95 until I few years ago when I got this new PC, so I'm sure it'll be a while before a lot of people switch to Vista- maybe some will even skip over it.   ;Quote:Original post by Funkymunkyalright.  Well, since this is GDNet, and since XP is apparently not going to support DX10, how long do you think it will take for serious gamers to need to upgrade to Vista?Until games worth playing start coming out for DX10 Hardware and DX10 hardware actually exists.And no, Halo 2 isn't worth playing.   ;  XP will fall out of style as soon as all the computers that shipped with XP are replaced.  I know very few people (actually... none) that buy Windows at retail.  It's always shipped OEM with new computers.  As soon as everyone has a computer that shipped with Vista, XP will be gone.  This happened to 98 just a few years ago.Basically, as soon as "old computers" have Vista on them, XP will be gone, just as XP is now on "old computers" as well as new computers.  This is going to be a long time.   ;  Here's one Vista only game that looks amazing: Alan Wake by Remedy (Creator of the Max Payne series). Looks amazing! Checkout the screenshots. It can also utilize quad cores using one core for physics, one to prepare data for the gpu, one for game logic (not sure about the last one). It's a game I really look forward to!/MindWipe   