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They should strongly encourage them to upgrade their operating systems, as the underlying operating systems also don't get updates anymore.

true_religion 11y ago
Some people's systems are unable to handle the memory or CPU requirements of newer operating systems. Due to that, they are unlikely to upgrade. That said, I think the question of how to serve these people is best left up to website operators and the people themselves.
- nisa 11y ago
  If your machine can deal with Vista it can deal with Windows 8 or Windows 10. You have to disable some knobs like Cortana but usually it's not slower. I'm having a Pentium M notebook with 2GB memory and it's working fine. Getting 2GB memory for old machines is pretty cheap - a few dollars on eBay. A desktop with at least some 64bit Core2Duo is actually pretty fast if not even faster with Windows 10 instead of Windows 7 / Vista - 4GB is fine for office on such a machine. The only caveat are these privacy and spy addons. I've yet to read some conclusive summary of these.
  - true_religion 11y ago
    I suppose it's anecdotal, but I had a desktop machine with 4GB of ram that was bought for Windows XP. It dealt well with Windows 7, but the moment I upgraded to Windows 8 I noticed it was very slow. Unwilling to spend time tweaking it, I downgraded immediately. Now I'm a developer. My mother on the other hand kept a Windows XP laptop running on a Celeron M processor and 1GB of memory. It felt snappy enough; but I wouldn't trust it to run Windows 10 applications because while Windows itself might dial down enough, something like Chrome will happily gobble 500GB of memory because it thinks it can.
  - yuhong 11y ago
    Windows 8 and later requires a NX capable processor though, and not all Pentium Ms supports it. More importantly, Win8 no longer supports XPDM, and if you are forced into using MSBDD because of this (likely if you using the IGP on such a machine) suspend won't work.
- legulere 11y ago
  I don't think CPU or memory really is a problem. Windows 10 requires 1GB of RAM. The bigger problem probably is that upgrading actually is costing time, programs/drivers might stop working, home users might think they're not able to update the computer theirselves or they don't even see the reason they need to.
anon1385 11y ago
Vista is getting Extended support until 11 April 2017. Lack of vendor support can't be the reason for dropping these platforms - Chrome has continued to support XP and OS X 10.6 despite those being unsupported for years, and it's now dropping support for Vista while it's still supported by Microsoft.

true_religion 11y ago

Some people's systems are unable to handle the memory or CPU requirements of newer operating systems. Due to that, they are unlikely to upgrade. That said, I think the question of how to serve these people is best left up to website operators and the people themselves.

nisa 11y ago
If your machine can deal with Vista it can deal with Windows 8 or Windows 10. You have to disable some knobs like Cortana but usually it's not slower. I'm having a Pentium M notebook with 2GB memory and it's working fine. Getting 2GB memory for old machines is pretty cheap - a few dollars on eBay. A desktop with at least some 64bit Core2Duo is actually pretty fast if not even faster with Windows 10 instead of Windows 7 / Vista - 4GB is fine for office on such a machine. The only caveat are these privacy and spy addons. I've yet to read some conclusive summary of these.
- true_religion 11y ago
  I suppose it's anecdotal, but I had a desktop machine with 4GB of ram that was bought for Windows XP. It dealt well with Windows 7, but the moment I upgraded to Windows 8 I noticed it was very slow. Unwilling to spend time tweaking it, I downgraded immediately. Now I'm a developer. My mother on the other hand kept a Windows XP laptop running on a Celeron M processor and 1GB of memory. It felt snappy enough; but I wouldn't trust it to run Windows 10 applications because while Windows itself might dial down enough, something like Chrome will happily gobble 500GB of memory because it thinks it can.
- yuhong 11y ago
  Windows 8 and later requires a NX capable processor though, and not all Pentium Ms supports it. More importantly, Win8 no longer supports XPDM, and if you are forced into using MSBDD because of this (likely if you using the IGP on such a machine) suspend won't work.
legulere 11y ago
I don't think CPU or memory really is a problem. Windows 10 requires 1GB of RAM. The bigger problem probably is that upgrading actually is costing time, programs/drivers might stop working, home users might think they're not able to update the computer theirselves or they don't even see the reason they need to.

anon1385 11y ago

Vista is getting Extended support until 11 April 2017. Lack of vendor support can't be the reason for dropping these platforms - Chrome has continued to support XP and OS X 10.6 despite those being unsupported for years, and it's now dropping support for Vista while it's still supported by Microsoft.