22-06-14, 12:22 PM
(22-06-14, 11:50 AM)Slaninar link Wrote: I-phone is a nice, practical thing. I don't have it, but a friend who is always on the road uses it a lot - for business as well as fun.The biggest problem I know of with a number of people with the iPhone is using it as it's name suggests, as a phone. It appears that each generation seems to get worse, it is a small iPad that will work as a phone if you ask it nicely and the audio quality is pretty poor too. I've always used Nokia as they make phones and most of the network infrastructure too, so with my latest have gone down the Windows phone route. Not because I wanted a Windows phone but because I wanted a Nokia. Since getting it, it does everything an iPhone, or for that matter, an Android device, can do, sometimes better, sometimes not as well, but it will do it. Not only that but my wife tried it and found it so much more intuitive to use than her Samsung Android phone, she changed to one too. Within 2 days she'd sent me a picture message, something she'd never been able to work out how to do in the past!
Microsoft released an update against Conficker in 2008 so while it may have been a problem 5 years ago isn't any more. Third party security software will deal with it anyway.
True, if you buy a new machine it is unlikely you will be able to run XP on it but if you are keeping an old one then you can stick with what you have and what you know. My point is that just because MS are no longer supporting XP doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a new machine with a supported operating system immediately. What can the new operating systems do that XP can't? Probably quite a lot of things but are they things you need or want to do?