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Windows 9 to be released earliest by fall of 2014 and latest Spring of 2015. http://bgr.com/2014/03/06/microsoft-windows-9-release-date-2/ and http://bgr.com/2014/01/22/windows-9-release-date-rtm-october/

Well, basically any new exploit being brought forth is probably a result of effort being spent looking for ways into Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8, not being specifically targeted at XP. They just get lucky, in the fact that some common code base goes back to earlier versions. Think of it as if you yourself were fixing to bring forth a product, would you want to be spending your time and money developing for a SHRINKING market? Would you really want to spend several hundred thousand dollars developing a a better buggy whip today? Last time, I checked there is a VERY LIMITED market for buggy whips. The days of people getting into a system to just have bragging rights are pretty much over. These days it is done to generate revenue, even though illegally, still to generate a revenue stream. From what I have read, and connecting the dots, most of the malware is developed and then sold to someone that wants to use the exploit. The authors are only selling software for illicit purposes, of course, but just selling software. So, if the potential targets of that software is decreasing, why would they want to spend time finding new ways into a shrinking pool of victims? bpalone That's true, but windows XP is still undeniably the 2nd most popular OS out there, and I don't see that going away for a while, so there will be plenty of people still targeting Windows xp after EOL.

If you find that this Linux distro is too large (very hard to imagine) you can also try this one. http://tinycorelinux.net/ . This amazing little distro is an amazing 12 mega bytes in size, and also customizable to your needs.

And for windows Me users http://www.oldapps.com/skype.php?old_skype=76#system-requirements (Skype version 3.8.0.188)

Here's a good link full of many freeware software (last free ware versions). Many of which support windows 9x http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/index.html

Another funny little pic That explains windows 8.1 EDIT: I found where windows 8 developers got their "good user interface" ideas from http://toastytech.com/guis/uirant.html

two steps from hell -- archangel

Off topic but the buttered side of toast doesn't fall that side down, but up instead http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/buttered-toast-minimyth.htm . Sure , that's what happens when a home made robot arm lets them fall vertically from the roof of a one-storey building. JFYI: http://www.schoolfreeware.com/Why_Does_Bread_Land_Butter_Side_Down_Page_1.html Among the references, a more common scenario makes it a 6 out of 6: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/kitchenscience/exp/butter-side-down/ Robert Matthews won an Ig Noble Prize in 1996 for his research: https://web.archive.org/web/19990117001743/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rajm/toast.htm And there are several follow-ups and experiments in the same direction, a few examples: http://kdf.mff.cuni.cz/~janek/pocitace/falling_bread.pdf http://www.improbable.com/2012/12/24/tumbling-toast-the-maths/ https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:lRgkC4FahuYJ:physik.uni-graz.at/~cad/Lehre/presentation_05/Krenn_Drucklayout.pdf+%22tumbling+toast+problem%22&hl=en&gl=sh&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESioINknBvcrA2VJXWHgzSifdlsST7CyOgtuIJ3bSLOOTyIaHs_NPRdFgOui5XbYz6VuaeqEB99jjsfES3FVd2yf79eJpcMuPj2V4Ye5GFPDAKYOZvEgao7SoMkFGWW8fOMKIQne&sig=AHIEtbRdffCKk6zCWTqDDeD_xJ_KbAroig jaclaz Why yes, but I didnt clarify my self enough. I was trying to say it was not the butter that made it fall butter down, but physics. Edit removed Video in quote cause it made post overly large. Also sorry if I wasn't clear in what I meant. I'm still working on my writing issues.

Off topic but the buttered side of toast doesn't fall that side down, but up instead http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/buttered-toast-minimyth.htm .

Alright that I want to see can you kindly pm me when that happens. Personally if it will or not gain users the new opera isnt opera but just another google chrome clone.

Too bad the new VLC is a pain in the but to install.

Then they lose market share, and trust. Look at what happened to windows when they took the start menu away.

You can try Crunchbang http://crunchbang.org/ Its a super small but functional distro based of of Debian. It is very customizable Open box: http://openbox.org/ (Open box is very customizable)

I know. I'm curently testing PAQ8 vs nanozip for file size, and unzipping. I need a small compression for I have a 1500 mb size limit for my site. EDIT: after looking at the size difference between Nano and PAQ8. I decided to go with nano due to little differences in size and a much faster decompression. nano compare.bmp

Thanks jaclaz PAQ8 will come in much use for me and my site .

Well... the Dinosaurs I guess. We've been pretty lucky so far :-) Wasn't their also that meteor that hit Russia some time lately. It was no were nearly as destructive as the one you posted, but still destructive.

Thanks too, I'm really hoping I do get updates after xp eol... would be a waste of money if I didnt...

Ok well I guess me and my cash register are good to go then . I have not had any limits on it yet, Though that would clarify why I did not get that ridiculous update. Thanks for your help submix.

Personally I'd be glad to have no cell phones in my area. I personally don't use mine much, and can't stand the people who test all the time in the hallway, get me late to class sometimes . (walk around would be a simple answer if they didn't go into these packs that take the whole hallway)

True, but what made it interesting (at least for me) is that POS 2009 is just a modified XP pro SP3, so I would guess I will get XP pro hot-fixes.

Interesting I didn't know this update existed. My POS 2009 computer didn't get the update?

only if you have something to bargain with which nobody has Random people: "release Presto as Open Source !" Opera: "why should we ?" its that simple ... Quote from petition. I underlined the reasons why we the people want it open sourced. (In other words we want it for an open web)

Here's a list of things that were said to never happen http://www.rense.com/general81/dw.htm . An attitude like that wont help trying to get them to allow it . Its persistence that wins out in the end.

free---Clam sentinel (Windows 98/98SE/Me/2000/XP/Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8)-- enables real-time scanning with ClamWin and adds its own heuristic scan engine to detect malware for which ClamWin does not yet have signatures.