surreal knowing that XP, which was supported for longer than some people on this website has been ALIVE for, has finally bit the dust for good. I won't get into the whole debate over if you should continue to use any XP variant now that it's unsupported (if you've known me for a while you already know my opinion on this matter), but still. Keeping it around for years beyond the initial scope of use is something we do here for every OS we've ever encountered! Even in its official end of support, it will continue being used in niche hardware and software.
#IS WINDOWS XP ABANDONWARE POSREADY 2009 DRIVERS#
NT 5.1 ran on so many different types of systems, there's drivers for practically everything. Secondly, the 'enhancements' - We've had UI enhancements over the years, unofficial themes, directX 10 backported (albeit not exactly useful for much), wineD3D for directX 7-11 ( ), and many other enhancements. I'm relatively certain that there's got to be at least one person already planning on this. Keeping XP alive well beyond its intended use case is something that will extend well beyond its usability phase - we're already about 13 years out from that, at this point.įirst things first, we're going to want backported CVE security fixes. Seeing as 2000 has extended kernels that actually provide NT5.1-6.0 functions to support newer software, it's entirely in the realm of possibility that XP will get the same treatment. There have been various modifications of the OS over the years that patched core system files' resources, extending API's, etc. Not that it hadn't already begun several years ago - there's been attempts at porting DirectX 10 to XP, There's been 4GB PAE extension mods to make XP support more than 4GB of RAM.
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And now begins the era of unofficial updates for NT5.1.