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Yesterday Microsoft ended support for Windows XP. While many users and even businesses continue to cling to the venerable OS there will be no further security updates and even with active anti-virus and malware protection, many users will be left unsecure reports the LA Times and various other news outlets.
There are some exceptions for the right customers.
The UK and Dutch governments have paid Microsoft multiple millions to extend support for Windows XP past the 8 April cutoff date.
The UK extension cost £5.5m but is only valid for a year, after which public-sector users will have to be moved to newer software.
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Any woman is a volume if one knows how to read her.
(Score: 2) by geb on Wednesday April 09 2014, @11:25AM
My family were still using an ancient desktop running XP, so I've been trying to get them away from it. Last Christmas I bought my mother a new laptop, and slowly she has been migrating to doing more and more things on that instead of the XP machine.
I confiscated the network cable on the XP machine yesterday.
It's still going to be in service, because the copy of MS Office on there still works (without requiring a subscription!) and it's still capable of driving the printer, but it's never again going to connect to the internet.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by crutchy on Wednesday April 09 2014, @01:13PM
could have just deleted the icon for Ineternet Exploiter off the desktop
"oh the 'e' icon has disappeared... someone must have shut down the internet"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 09 2014, @11:40PM
it's never again going to connect to the internet
From this day forward, air-gapped is the only logical way to run XP.
Smarter still: Not on bare metal.
A VM snapshot is the easiest way to re-image a borked Windoze install.
All of this assumes that there's actually a Windoze-only app required.
could have just deleted the icon for Ineternet Exploiter
Click a Favorite?
Click a link in an email?
Doesn't the Windoze Help system still use Internet Exploder?
I hope you were trying for humor.
-- gewg_
(Score: 3, Interesting) by KritonK on Wednesday April 09 2014, @02:22PM
Isn't that a bit premature? Had support for XP continued, you would have had no problem connecting that computer to the internet for the next month, until the next batch of updates came out. Thus, I would think that XP machines are still safe to use for the next month.
On the other hand, the threat of loss of internet connectivity is a major incentive to upgrade. I had been pestering for months the last XP user in our company to give me the all clear to upgrade her computer, to no avail. Today, I told her that Windows XP have expired (hmmm... is that what "XP" stood for?) and that she should stop connecting to the internet until I upgrade her computer. Now, she can't wait for the upgrade!