‘Mainstream’ Support for XP Ends Today

By Leon Moss, your payday loans news source

Microsoft will continue to offer limited ‘extended’ support until 2014.

Did you see this announcement in today’s papers? Well, I have a few words to say on the subject. My first question to Microsoft is, “what if I’m not Mainstream?”

You could say I’m not Mainstream

The truth is that I am a “Backwater” operation. It’s only you and the income tax department that think I am Mainstream and treat me as such. My organization is me, one 2002 computer, one 2005 computer and a 2006 laptop. The fax is steam driven.

I need XP support

My organization works day and night and produces a fair amount of financial, engineering and anti-contamination output. It runs happily on your XP software and this morning coped easily with tests for the presence of Ethanol and Sodium Metasilicate in hospital operating theater environments. I cannot believe that whatever you plan to replace XP with, will do any better.

Please do not force me into taking huge Online Cash Advances from the Personal Money Store to replace my XP.

It’s a conspiracy

The whole XP YP ZP thing is a huge conspiracy between Microsoft and Intel. These companies employ loads of people and they have to keep finding work for them. Intel looks at XP and says, we could make that go a lot faster if we added another gizmo to the chip and turned it on its back. In comes R&D, tests all the combinations and says right, it works. So they make the new chips and market them as “faster than the human eye can see”. They passed the point of “faster than the human hand can type about 20 years ago”. The new computer comes out. It has ‘Intel Inside’ and ‘Made in China’ outside. And this baby is fast! My typing speed remains constant at 30 miles an hour. I buy a desktop and a laptop. Yes, Payday Loans.

Microsoft sees this and says: what a pity to waste all this old XP stuff on a Ferrari computer, let’s jack up our software to Mach II. And they do. They’re good and they can actually do anything. So I buy XP Mach II but I still type at 30 miles an hour.

The XP Mach II is expensive and I take a Payday Loan. Income Tax frowns at this unnecessary waste of good tax money.

The plot thickens

Intel checks out XP Mach II and says: hey there’s a great opportunity here to turn the chip sideways and add a thingamajig underneath. Let’s do that! It will drive the speed up exponentially. R&D and the backroom boys go to work and the new computer comes out. It has ‘Intel Inside’ and ‘Made in China’ outside. This baby is not fast, it’s lightning on wheels. I buy a desktop and a laptop. Payday Loans again. My typing speed remains constant at 30 miles an hour.

Microsoft sits back and watches and then it says. Hey, guess what! The new Intel thing is so fast that we can rewrite XP Mach II, zap it up to XP Mach III. It’ll be unbeatable. I take the Payday Loan, thumb my nose at Income Tax and install XP Mach III. I give it a test drive. Wow it’s great! My typing speed is 30 miles an hour!