# Windows xp

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp/676429>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 16, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp/676429 "2013-12-16T01:33:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![pdunderhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@pdunderhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pdunderhill)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp/676429/1 "2013-12-16T01:33:36Z")

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A thank you to the good people in Seattle for support for the OS, for the ideals and for sticking with patches and updates when the business model said MS shouldn’t.  
Sadly minus points for Vista and Win 8, sadly nobodies perfect.  
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**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp/676429/2 "2013-12-16T01:40:34Z")

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‘Good people’ ?

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**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/windows-xp/676429/3 "2013-12-16T01:57:59Z")

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Hey, Linus does it for free.