Is MS up to something with XP still?

[OneWorld]

Can u still surf the web on an xp machine?

Yes you can. There's something wrong with your laptop.

A Chinese friend of mine uses an ancient Dell XP laptop, it is pre-core 2 duo, centrino I think, 2 gig ram and they watch Chinese TV Shows and it works great, really high quality video. I try BBC iPlayer on the same machine and it burps and farts it's through Top Gear, it's hardly worth bothering. And pages that are Silverlight/Flash intensive are just as bad, yet the Chinese ones are fine? And this is using the same ISP - BT Internet.

On a more general point, I think there's something up with the internet anyway - eBay offline for hours on end twice in a month, it took me several attempts to pay my electric bill today, kept getting 404 error when I tried to log on, some other sites keep dropping out. This all seems to have come about in the l;ast month. And my computers have up to date anti-virus, I never got to dodgy sites of any description, just here, eBay, Gumtree, YouTube etc

But when the internet is ok the old Dell XP laptop chugs along quite merrily

[BluesFunkforbreakfast]

Yeah you wanna watch out for that internet its a bit of a beast has mood swings like a busty girlfriend who likes getting her own way. Maybe learn Chinese that could be the answer

[alexis]

Yeah you wanna watch out for that internet its a bit of a beast has mood swings like a busty girlfriend who likes getting her own way. Maybe learn Chinese that could be the answer

I've never had a Chinese girlfriend, busty or otherwise, sounds interesting, is that what you're saying? Or is there a double entendre of "XP" in there somewhere??

[BluesFunkforbreakfast]

I was just adding to the guy who mentioned the Chinese xp setup ran like a dream. The only good experience I've had with xp recently is on a mchine not connected to the net where it ran like a dream

[alexis]

I was just adding to the guy who mentioned the Chinese xp setup ran like a dream. The only good experience I've had with xp recently is on a mchine not connected to the net where it ran like a dream

Sorry, BluesFunkforbreakfast, I should have put a winkie or something there, didn't mean to mislead you, I was just kidding. About the not having had a ... sorry, never mind!