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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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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(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!