Reply With QuoteIncorrect: MS only stops futurely supporting XP, means no more service packs will be released.Originally Posted by ada101
BTW: XP is known as the most insecure OS, so it definitely makes no sense to run today XP.
XP Support ends tomorrow!
That's right, tomorrow is April 8th, when support for XP finally comes to an end!
What are your thoughts? Anyone still using XP? Anyone going to hold out on XP after updates stop?
I still use XP in Virtual Machines for testing programs, and also testing web designs in IE6, in fact, the screenshot above comes from an XP VM!
I also have XP on an old AMD Sempron 1.6Ghz with 512mb RAM. As you may have noticed, this PC is only worthy of a lightweight OS, such as Puppy, Windows XP or the trash.
Anyways, farewell XP!
Last edited by ada101; 07-04-14 at 11:48 PM.
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Incorrect: MS only stops futurely supporting XP, means no more service packs will be released.
BTW: XP is known as the most insecure OS, so it definitely makes no sense to run today XP.
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I don't get all the worry. So support stops, but your copy of xp doesn't. How actually affected is anyone if service pack 50 doesn't come out? If you bought xp for whatever, say $100 ten years ago, that's not a bad run or value for money. Time to move on, or just keep using it.
I wouldn't be doing any online banking from a Windows XP system anymore.
I dare say that XP is only the most widely compromised because it's the most prolific OS out there, and for good reason... Microsoft still haven't come up with a worthy replacement!
I've been wondering quite often lately whether Microsoft has or will sabotage current XP installs in the last few "updates" to force people to move on? Nothing obvious of course as they'd get their ass sued off, but just some little bug to make things run slower, or some annoying little buggy behavior?
Andrew
Just as a side-note, one of the other "big M" multi-nationals (Motorola not McDonalds) has stated that both Windows XP and Vista will no longer be supported in their programming software in any future versions.
XP I can understand but they're jumping the gun a little on Vista I think?
Andrew
They added the "end of use" pop up to MSE, even though MSE was still being updated on XP until 2015.
Actually I have heard rumors of this happening in the past... Never looked into it but I remember reading about it some stage a while ago.
Last edited by ada101; 08-04-14 at 09:24 AM.
I read a news article today that said 95% of the worlds ATM's are still using XP. (a quick Google shows that to be apparently true)
Probably depends on what a XP machine is used for. Would not use XP for something like home banking now but provided a good virus scanner/protection software is running the average XP user should be safe.
Would be wise to stay away from shonky websites though.
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