{"id":146,"date":"2008-09-01T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2008-08-31T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T01:00:27","slug":"the-xp-downgrade-bonus-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"The XP Downgrade, Bonus Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest PC in my office got replaced this past week. It was pushing 7 years, which is a year too long for my recommended PC upgrade cycle. Unpacking the new PC revealed something I&#8217;ve never seen before in any computer box: A Windows XP downgrade disc.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nMy jaw dropped when I saw the thing: <em>Microsoft Windows XP Conversion Kit<\/em>. In fact, seeing the thing halted the entire unpacking experience for me \u2014 a process I relish.<\/p>\n<p>I had ordered the new PC with Windows Vista Business installed. I&#8217;m growing fond of Vista, as long as I ignore the intolerably long startup process. Yet the presence of the XP Conversion Kit caused me to pause.<\/p>\n<p><em>The computer I replaced ran XP. It ran okay. I was happy with it. All the software worked on XP . . .<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After a few seconds, though, I said <em>Naaa<\/em>. I plan on keeping my new PC for a long time, at least another 6 years. I don&#8217;t want to be a so-called &#8220;computer expert&#8221; in 2014 running an operating system that&#8217;s 12 years old. That&#8217;s kooky.<\/p>\n<p>Yes: Microsoft may have a new version of Windows by 2014. It may have a new operating system altogether. But remember: I do not recommend upgrading the operating system. I don&#8217;t want to. So the pause was brief, I set the discs aside, and continued configuring my new PC.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the XP Conversion Kit consists of Lenovo\/IBM recovery DVDs. It&#8217;s not a generic conversion kit; it restores a Lenovo PC only, so I won&#8217;t be selling it on eBay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest PC in my office got replaced this past week. It was pushing 7 years, which is a year too long for my recommended PC upgrade cycle. Unpacking the new PC revealed something I&#8217;ve never seen before in any computer box: A Windows XP downgrade disc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}