I'm one of those "old fossils" who still has XP. Can windows 8 be installed or do I have to get rid of the XP someway?
My old XP desktop crashed and still unable to get it fixed but I will get around to it eventually because there are games I like to play that either crash on windows 7 or cannot be played on windows 7 at all. Obviously, I have a windows 7 desktop now and use this for business and some gaming as well as other personal stuff and windows 7 is a pretty solid operating system. I would steer clear of windows 8 too many bugs they need to eliminate.
Reason for my post mainly is because when I do get my old XP computer fixed so I can play the games I miss playing I will NOT be hooking it up to the internet so security/viruses will not be an issue as I will be using it solely for playing CD/DVD Rom games so I suppose there's no harm you buying a new desktop/laptop (whatever you preference) with windows 7 while still keeping your XP computer for doing offline things. There are some features I do like about XP which are not in windows 7, like the simplicity of creating address labels in XP, there are templates to choose from which I have not been able to find on my windows 7 desktop but then I am not "paying" to open up all the features of Word. But if like me you have an external storage device (essentially a mobile hard drive) then you can still do stuff on XP, send it to external hard drive then copy/paste it to documents/pictures etc. on your windows 7 computer. I find I can still open XP word processor files on windows 7 Word. I just do not know why they make it so difficult to create templates of address labels in windows 7 when you could do it so easily on XP.
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