I am just hoping I won't have to take a hiatus from Second Life due to technical issues. It would have been a lot better for Linden Labs to have kept supporting XP until the spring of 2016.
And I will miss Maggie Mae (my computer) as I have missed few inanimate objects, but all good things come to an end. So yes, I will give in to planned obselescence in December 2015/January 2016. I'm used to having my online life in the hands of big corporations. Naturally, I'd like to see Linden Labs, GIMP, and other critical software providers get on the Windows 10 bandwagon and for Microsoft to get any big bugs out of Windows 10 before I buy in. I saw no reason to upgrade to Windows 7 (I have it at work and did not see much of an improvement in performance.) Windows 8 was a mistake, and not worth a new machine (My machine can't run Windows 7, so 8 was out of the question unless worthwhile), so you can guess what I'm waiting for. On July 29, Microsoft comes out with Windows 10. Let's call planned obselescence what it is and scream from the rooftops that it S-ks!Īll that said, I find Linden Labs timing just impecable. I am being forced to ugrade from a perfectly good (more peripherals than machine now) nine year old, Windows XP machine to something bigger and fancier. I shouldn't have to update any operating system if my computer still works just fine.