Thread: Windows XP support ending

There is zero need to move from windows xp.

Don't be sucked in.

W7 pro is fine. We (the business) skipped Vista and are avoiding W8. One of the techs just bought W7 ($130?) to downgrade a W8 Eeebox that decided not to play anymore.

Originally Posted by Dougal

There is zero need to move from windows xp.

Don't be sucked in.

said noahs mate...

it will be fine as it is now till the anti virus programs stop supporting it if you don't need to update any other software.

it is full of holes tho...

make sure up update to at least ie 8 before the shut off date.

if it is a business box then 7 pro is the go

if a home box 8.1 with start8 addon is very hard to go past...

Originally Posted by incisor

if it is a business box then 7 pro is the go

if a home box 8.1 with start8 addon is very hard to go past...

I've just bought my daughter a new HP convertible laptop/tablet that came with W8. With the update to W8.1 and a few other tweaks I think it is pretty damned good.

Originally Posted by incisor

said noahs mate...

it will be fine as it is now till the anti virus programs stop supporting it if you don't need to update any other software.

it is full of holes tho...

make sure up update to at least ie 8 before the shut off date.

Pointless scaremongering. Seriously who uses I.E. and which AV companies are no longer supporting XP?

Right now all that occured is M$ have stated no more patches and service packs.
Which makes absolutely no difference to virtually all users. It's all a marketing exercise to drive people to upgrading perfectly usable computers to new hardware and new (M$) software.

I run winXP on two computers with absolutely no anti-virus. They are computers which don't browse the internet and in 5 years neither have had any issues.
Despite having less brain power than a modern cell phone they still work brilliantly.

The XP computer here still in use got rogered by a virus 6 years ago. Despite being fully up to date in all respects. At the time three commercial AV programs could not find or fix the virus.
But a year later (when infected HDD was pulled from the archive and run through the latest virus updates) it was able to be sorted.

AV software is no guarantee of anything.

Originally Posted by Dougal

Pointless scaremongering. Seriously who uses I.E...................

Me, all my customers and those of my fellow companies worldwide who offer a web platform for universal use. IE (flawed and annoying as it is) is the "Office"of web browsers.

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

Me, all my customers and those of my fellow companies worldwide who offer a web platform for universal use. IE (flawed and annoying as it is) is the "Office"of web browsers.

Same here. Zero choice at work, no-one is permitted to install anything else unless they are an admin.

So that would be somewhere around 40,000 of my colleagues worldwide. And statistics I saw recently suggested that more than 50% of people using the internet are still using IE.