Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

Microsoft Ends Support for Windows XP

posted by n1 on Wednesday April 09 2014, @10:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the have-things-really-improved dept.

SuperCharlie writes:

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.

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Microsoft Ends Support for Windows XP | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 54 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 1) by meisterister on Thursday April 10 2014, @11:28PM

    by meisterister (949) on Thursday April 10 2014, @11:28PM (#29768) Journal

    Anyone mind if I say that Windows 2000 was a pretty good OS?

    Too bad microsoft hasn't made a better OS since.

    --
    (May or may not have been) Posted from my K6-2, Athlon XP, or Pentium I/II/III.

  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday April 10 2014, @11:42PM

    by Reziac (2489) on Thursday April 10 2014, @11:42PM (#29772) Homepage

    I won't disagree with that. I like XP, but I think they hit a sweet spot with W2K's overall quality and lack of needless junk. It just did its job without being a PITA or a hardware hog.

    Today I spent some time working on a Win7 box... some sort of multicore AMD 2GHz with 2GB RAM... it was downright *piggy* compared to this sorry old single-core P4-1.8GHz/1.2GB RAM running XP. I'm reminded why I didn't jump right up and switch. Not to mention I developed an urge to do bodily harm to whoever rearranged W7's system tools. Stuff was much the same once I found it, but *finding* it was an adventure.

    --
    And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.