[Jeff Chandler]

I have XP and it works great.

And after April 8 it will become extremely vulnerable to attack.

Read this part:

Patch Tuesday Becomes Virus Tuesday

[Proud2BeRight]

That Jeff (the situation, not your comment) really gets me angry. I have a product that works excellent and I may be forced to complicate my life and finances only because of the nature of that product and aholes who exploit it.

I don’t have time to spend hundreds of hours on getting a new operating system working and my many programs and data reloaded and working plus I have some old programs on the XP that also work great but will not probably not work on newer platforms.

[Utilizer]

"Patch Tuesday Becomes Virus Tuesday"

Please. That's the best you can do? Proclaim the sky is falling because MS is discontinuing support and link to some company's insurance against impending hacking? The 'nix crowd has always been right up there in the fight against malware, oftentimes posting far faster patches and notifications than the MS pukes, and often without Redmond even acknowledging any problem whatsoever. I do not see that changing any time soon, especially with the number of computers still out there running XP.

[ducttape45]

I have a computer in which I can remove the primary hard drive, the one with the operating system, and swap it out with whatever I want to put in it via a removable hard drive tray. I have a hard drive programmed with XP and one with Windows 7. I plan on purchasing a third hard drive to program with Linux.

Yeah, I know, I can just dual/tri boot one hard drive, but I prefer to keep them all on their own separate hard drives. I use W7 most of the time but I wanted an XP disk with all the latest patches for sake of having it, and also hoping that Microsoft will realize their error and continue to support it.