XP will no longer be supported next year. That means all security patches, hot fixes and updates will no longer be available. Plus, the worldwide hacker community have had 12 years now to learn to exploit XP—and the security of a year 2001 designed operating system just isn’t safe anymore.
And before we condemn Microsoft for dropping support, do realize it costs a ton of money to keep good programmers working on XP code when they’d be better used staffing newer models.
All good things must come to an end.
Finally, the PC has been a real success story—almost legendary when you think about how much it has changed the world; yet, even it will be replaced. In my opinion, the tablet/smart phone has not; rather they suplement the PC world, but nevertheless, something different will arise. What? I don’t know, but it will.
A huge can of worms in trying to upgrade an old PC. Especially, if it isn't necessary.
Most of the computers at work are running XP, too. We'll probably continue to run XP.
And Oracle's JAVA is now even worse apparently.
Take a look at the various Linux distros....for serious internet browsing....
Why have a computer with personal data accessible to the INTERNET....when there are other choices,.?