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Not an April Fools joke at all.... Posted by NCCaniac [Email]  (#352)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from NCCaniac) on Tue, 1 Apr 2014 07:59:23
In Reply to: April Fools from Microsoft???, Bill Homer  [Profile/Gallery]
, Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:11:51
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This has been in the news for the last couple of years that MS would end support for XP this year (the date was already extended several times).
Everything others have said is valid, but even if you run up to date antivirus software on your XP machine, you are still living on borrowed time for several reasons. One, hackers out there are searching for more exploits in XP that will allow them to take over or infect your machine with malware. They view this end of XP security update support as a gold mine because they know many end users will likely stay on XP for a while, so if thy find a vulnerability they can exploit, there is high probability they will have months and months of success on these old machines. Antivirus software may be able to detect and handle some of this, but sometimes a fix to the OS is needed and there will be no more fixes. (Where this really concerns me is many bank ATMs still run Win XP!)
Some of the major antivirus software vendors have said they will continue to support XP for the future...but the question is for how long? So, while you may be OK for a while after April 8, you should make plans to move to something else sooner than later. If you are connected to the internet, you are essentially maintaining a "house with locks that will eventually be picked".
Like MI-Roger, I have been moving my PCs to Windows 7. I use Windows 7 Professional since it has support for running apps in XP compatibility mode (or even using Microsoft's virtual machine downloadable support to actually boot a virtual XP session inside of Windows 7 to run old apps that will not run on Windows 7 natively). You can still purchase Windows 7 and it is an easier transition than going to Windows 8.
Microsoft has a downloadable utility to check your machine's capability of running Widows 7 and you can use that to generate a report that tells you what you need to know.
Is this a pain in the neck? Yes. But being a software developer myself, I know how much effort and cost it is for Microsoft to keep supporting 14 year old software, so while it was inconvenient, I can understand it.
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