Posted on 03/15/2014 10:42:51 AM PDT by shove_it
On April 8, 2014, support and updates for Windows XP will no longer be available. Don't let your PC go unprotected.
What is Windows XP end of support? Microsoft has provided support for Windows XP for the past 12 years. But now the time has come for us, along with our hardware and software partners, to invest our resources toward supporting more recent technologies so that we can continue to deliver great new experiences.
As a result, after April 8, 2014, technical assistance for Windows XP will no longer be available, including automatic updates that help protect your PC. Microsoft will also stop providing Microsoft Security Essentials for download on Windows XP on this date. (If you already have Microsoft Security Essentials installed, you will continue to receive antimalware signature updates for a limited time, but this does not mean that your PC will be secure because Microsoft will no longer be providing security updates to help protect your PC.)
If you continue to use Windows XP after support ends, your computer will still work but it might become more vulnerable to security risks and viruses. Also, as more software and hardware manufacturers continue to optimize for more recent versions of Windows, you can expect to encounter greater numbers of apps and devices that do not work with Windows XP.
What does it mean if my version of Windows is no longer supported?
Which version of Windows am I running?
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lmao
Support is ending for Office 2003
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/support-is-ending-for-office-2003-HA103306332.aspx
It will be an enormous business opportunity for some company.
Thanky...
Pulling 500 billion of funds from medicare to obmamcare was another move.
Putting in patient quality scores affecting treatment was another.
Putting in race as a factor affecting your care was a third. There are racial stats that could deny you care if not enough minorities are getting the care you’re getting.
There are lots of people who don't need 1 TB hard-drives and 8 GB of fricking memory.
Don’t worry about it. Switch to firefox for a browser, and set up your system with a new login id that you set to be a standard/limited account and do all of your work there except for actual times of rare system/application updates, add, removes. This latter action will eliminate any chance of badware invading your OS. In fact I recommend that strategy for ANY Windows OS, no matter how new.
XP will work just fine for as long as your old hardware holds out.
So my computer won’t update 5 times a day... Awesome. I can hardly wait.
I have two IBM laptops and three destops all of which use XP. The laptops are older ones, a T42 and a T60 and the desktops are 7 years old. Since almost 70 percent of ALL platforms are still using XP, Microsoft’s move really angers me.
I got the dialog box you mention to see if my desktop could handle Windows 8.1. I downloaded the thingy that checked my machine. It gave me an error message. The other machine is the same computer so I suppose I’d get the same error message. I’ve not checked the laptops but they are even older machines.
I do not want to buy new machines plus a new printer. Shifting to MAC is even more expensive plus buying new software.
Bill Gates has moved even lower on my list of not so favorite people.
I did...it runs Hyper-V 2012 R2.
I have another question. I have Service Pack 2 and SP3 files saved. If I wanted to install XP on a clean machine I wonder how one gets all the old patches? Will MS continue to provide access to those??
Support for XP Embedded software doesn’t run out till 2016.
There are also voting machines, drive through restaurant displays, airport flight arrival/departure displays, etc. which use Windows XP.
There are different versions, however of XP. Microsoft has indicated they are dropping support for Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional, which were intended for consumer and business desktop systems.
There is another version, Windows XP Embedded, which is used for more streamlined functions. I haven’t heard anything about discontinuing support for the XP Embedded product and I believe it is licensed by device manufacturers with support for their products.
I’ve seen Windows XP Embedded in the voting machines first rolled out in Fairfax County, VA and in digital signage control units, so I believe it is likely still a viable product.
And it looks like my question was answered. :)
If I were you I would get all that done now.
Try to have your machine clean and barebones, and locked up tight before the deadline. After you think you have most of the vital updates from the update center, keep visiting it and running custom update search. Download a free program to update all your drivers, Avast or glary utilities will check for updates, for your software.
If you do a new install, it will take a while to get everything up to the newest current level, the updates unlock and lead to new updates, it can take several days to be completely good to go.
Check out newegg for refurbished units. Most of them come with a copy of Windows 7 included. Several are available for less than $200.00.
I recently purchased a HP unit just to be able to keep some XP games running. The cost of the unit INCLUDING WIN 7 install disk was less than the cost of WIN 7 alone.
Many moons ago, I was the Infrastructure Architect for a large multinational bank that ran IBM's OS/2 on their ATM devices. (Many banks did at that time.) I designed the infrastructure and specified the requirements to move from OS/2 which IBM was de-supporting, to Windows XP.
At that time, the concern with Windows XP which was still relatively new, was with device driver compatability for all the components in the ATM devices, and the security of XP itself, so we didn't have ATM's "spitting out $20's" on the streets.
It took the better part of 18 months for the major ATM vendors to get the device drivers for the various mechanical components, keypads, and display devices working properly.
At the same time, Banks also had to meet the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities act for those who were blind/sight impaired or hard of hearing/deaf. None of which was a minor undertaking.
Since I was also responsible for the security architecture of the OS, ATM devices and network configuration, all our ATM's came into the bank's data centers via private connections (no internet based connections) on our Metropolitan and MAN networks, inside the firewall, segmented on their own network subnet.
This made it possible to prevent internet access to the ATM's, and prevent any ATM that may have gotten physically compromised from going anywhere else on our network.
We were also able to monitor the uptime and availability of the devices, cash on hand in the devices and their physical security (if someone tried breaking into the device.)
If someone attempted to physically break into our atm's, we had a kill-switch in the device so that if someone managed to open it without entering the maintenance security code on the device, the ATM would disable all internal components that distributed money through the money changer, fire off an alert to our NOC that the device was in process of being compromised, and send an alert to the local PD.
We did have to occasions where some nutjobs literally STOLE the entire ATM devices and tried opening them to get the cash out of them, both attempts failed. We found one ATM in a farmfield in Plainfield, IL when the farmer called us to say he found it, another was literally ripped out of an ATM drive-up island in the middle of one of the bank's parking lot. I can pretty much assure you or anyone else that most banks did as we did to secure their atm's in a similar fashion. As long as they're not exposed to the Internet, they'll remain secure.
I have some games I enjoy which run on XP but not WIN 7.
My main machine is a monster running an AMD 8350 8 core processor, A Solid State OS DISK and over 15 Terabytes of hard disk storage space.
I use it to record and edit videos and to serve as a backup to my media server which also runs AMD hardware with an additional 15 TB of storage.
Even though I own multiple high end WIN 7 machines I still need a good XP box to run certain games.
My wife has Windows 7 on her laptop and Windows XP on her business computer. She uses both daily, but won't consider upgrading her office computer to Windows 7.
I've been married to her for 18 years, and have ceased trying to understand her little eccentricities.
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