If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
I don’t like having to learn new tricks just to be trendy.
Well the thing is that it is broke and will continue to become even more broken.
The people that insists on staying with it like it is a TV or radio, are opening themselves, and others, to malicious malware because Microsoft rightfully will not spend any more of their money keeping some people’s goofy attachment to old software safe. It’s software, not a classic car.
If they are never going to connect to the internet again, then whatever. Somehow judging from the ignorance and cockiness of many of the XP holdouts, your average low-level hacker may do the job for MS and render those computers unusable.
Not so much trendy as it is an arms race and XP is being left behind.
It’s hard to keep an operating system this old up to snuff in today’s online environment. XP works, but it’s not built to the same security level as modern operating systems. Microsoft doesn’t want to keep writing new security upgrades for it, so on April 8, it’s stopping. No more security updates. No more support. Your XP computer will still work, but Microsoft won’t help you anymore. Microsoft is pretty harsh about it: “XP cannot be considered safe to use after support ends.”