Security is of course still a concern, but even if Micro-Squish is no longer supporting the private versions of XP, the Open Source community has always been vigilant about discovering and providing fixes for any problems with it.
This article questions whether business owners can continue with their existing software or play it "safe" (?) and upgrade despite the price hit required, among other concerns.
No.
I still use XP and thus far have not had problems (that I am aware of).
*Laughs until red in face*
*beathes in*
*Dies laughing*
These new systems will not operate old scanners and printers. It is a lot cheaper to stay with XP and a lot less frustrating.
I just got new windows. It stormed last night and NO LEAKS! I’m happy with the windows I have. No need to upgraded. If they get hacked, somebody is gonna get shot.
BTTT
As long as none of the wired networked computers never ever see the light of the Internet never ever, and there are no wireless units allowed access to the network...yes.
Yes.
Install proper firewalling and client based products.
Then transmit vital on VPN.
There are probably NT and OS2 servers running and running..
XP as a business platform.. To a certain size of growth.. OK..
The vast majority of the world’s ATMs run on XPpro...the banks and financial institutions owning/managing those XPpro ATMs have support agreements with Microsoft.
Can these open source patches be applied to actual XP or do you have to be running a private version?
I have the oldest computer at my company and I use XP on it. I pretty much never get viruses or malware infections. I think once three years ago I had one that I quickly got rid of. Everyone else who has constant problems in that department is on Windows 7 or 8, and the same users have the issue over and over again.
The main factor in security is not which version of Windows, but the behavior of the users. The ones who are going to non-work related websites, downloading software they don’t need, trying to find free music or movies, opening every email attachment or clicking every link without thinking about it. They are the biggest “security hole” of all, and if it were up to me, I’d fire them the third time they had to come to me to get their computer fixed.
“Can businesses stick with Windows XP and still avoid a hacking disaster?”
Yep. Just do production work from a limited user account, never using an admin account for internet access, and never using IE8, but instead use the latest chrome or firefox browser. A setup like that is nearly bulletproof.
You bet you can. Just unplug the ethernet cable.
The technical ignorance displayed in this topic is... astounding.
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I liked XP, and for that matter W2K. A year ago I upgraded to W7 and discovered all my software still works. I’m talking a TurboCad program from the 90’s, Office 2000, a 2003 photo editing program, and others. W7 has a feature where older programs will run in the XP Mode. W7 can also be customized to look just like XP,even the icons.
I picked up a brand new shop built computer today with W7. I asked what’s the most popular op system they install, and the answer was an overwhelming Windows 7.
Okay. I have an Asus Netbook with XP and 1 MB of Ram, and a Dell laptop with XP and 2 NB of Ram.
The Asus can be upgrade to 2 MB of Ram, but the Dell is maxed out.
Can I install Win 7, on these computers and expect reasonable performance, mainly on the Internet?
Yes. If your OS matters when it comes to hackers it’s because your corporate firewall stinks, at which point your OS once again doesn’t matter.
For a business that sees no need to upgrade some perfectly good software that runs great on XP...... Keep those XP machines
But I would keep them off the internet due to security problems and prolly only old browser versions can be used due to the new far superior and secure versions of Firefox etc being too burdensome on XP
These small businesses could run XP (and their old reliable software) virtually on brand spankin new computers that would then be fine (secure) on the internet with Windows 7-8-10 etc. New desktops-laptops are cheap these days