Windows XP not Dead?April 25th, 2008
Reports are coming in that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has announced that they will consider XP’s end-of-life to be negotiable, based on customer feedback.
However, the details of that customer feedback are apparently focused on sales figures of new PCs, rather than the installed user-base that has opted (so far) not to upgrade. To my mind, this makes XP’s phase-out imminent rather than just possible. On the other hand, Service Pack 3 has reached RC2 status and should be released soon. Whether this is a final hurrah, or a stepping stone to longer life remains to be seen.
My recommendation is to stick with XP for as long as it works for you. I was not happy with Vista (Business Edition) and would keep using XP for as long as is viable. It won’t be forever, but you don’t have to make the jump yet.
Almost done!February 24th, 2008
The major outstanding design issues have been solved, and the implementation is proceeding nicely. It is not quite finished yet, so there’s some navigation that doesn’t work, and some dynamically generated pages that are very broken because they have not yet been implemented. One month past the projected date, but then I didn’t actually start on it until a few days ago. Not so bad.
Under RenovationsJanuary 2nd, 2008
Epistech.com is currently undergoing renovations and will re-launch on or about the end of January.Thanks for staying tuned.
