See Ya, Windows XP

Published on April 8, 2014 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Over 12 years after it has launched, Microsoft is finally cutting lose the operating system so many of us have a history with……Windows XP. Starting today Microsoft will no longer offer any type of support, security patches, updates, fixes, etc. for Windows XP. Now this doesn’t mean XP is going to stop working if you are using it, but going forward you are now running the risk of a vulnerable OS,and in all honesty it’s time to upgrade.

If you still want to use XP, there’s still options:

Run in a virtual machine like VMware Workstation or VirtualBox.
Keep as a clone with software like Paragon Drive Copy or Acronis True Image.

Ready to upgrade? Let me point you in the right direction:

Upgrade to Windows 7 or Windows 8. You can find OS upgrades at Newegg or Amazon.
Need a new PC? The Microsoft Store is offering $100 savings to upgrade your old PC.
Best Buy is offering a similar promotion.

Comments (Page 2)

heft

on Apr 08, 2014

<sarcasm> I'm not worried. I only use XP for banking, Facebook and online purchases. </sarcasm>

Jafo

on Apr 08, 2014

I think the only XP systems I have left now are in VMs .... 2 or 3 of those.

Hardware systems are 3 x 7s and one dog of an 8.1 on a laptop....

CarGuy1

on Apr 08, 2014

Jafo

reply 17

I think the only XP systems I have left now are in VMs .... 2 or 3 of those.

Same here. I have a few programs that refuse to run in an OS other than XP.

Besides, thanks to DRM, it's the last OS that allows you to record "What You Hear".

starkers

on Apr 09, 2014

CarGuy1

reply 18

Besides, thanks to DRM, it's the last OS that allows you to record "What You Hear".

I've never had a worry with recording anything I wanted on Vista, Win 7 or Win 8... but then I don't purchase/download digital music since I have everything I like/want on CD and can just rip whatever to my music folder.... and I could never understand anyone buying music from fechen iTunes, with all its DRM and restrictions. For mine, it's raylight dobbery... and just for a license to play it, they say. At least when I come out of the record store I own the CD I just purchased. Yeah, Apple, that's something else you can stick in your bronzed ginger.

I know, didn't make alot of sense to me, either, but don't worry, I'm having a bad hair day and hopefully tomorrow is a better day

tjashen

on Apr 09, 2014

Not so fast...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/not-dead-yet-dutch-british-governments-pay-to-keep-windows-xp-alive/

starkers

on Apr 09, 2014

tjashen

reply 20

Not so fast...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/not-dead-yet-dutch-british-governments-pay-to-keep-windows-xp-alive/

What dipshits, paying MS to extend support on a butt ugly, obsolete OS that should have drawn its last breath about 10 years ago. For the price they're paying to extend support for XP, they could replace every XP rig in their possession and have change left over.

Nah, they're not dipshits... they're fechen effwits.

Kamamura_CZ

on Apr 09, 2014

Upgrade to Lubuntu, no more fees, you can keep your old hardware since it's not as demanding as modern bloatware (no HW accelerated GUI shiny chrome, etc.) You could probably run the critical XP software in Wine, many applications work, including games. Stable, regularly updated, secure, and most importantly FREE operation system.

starkers

on Apr 09, 2014

Kamamura_CZ

reply 22

I've not tried Lubuntu as yet. So, is it different to Ubuntu, and if so, how? I've known about running Windows software in Linux using Wine, and RoboLinux makes it even easier, so I have no objection to running one or more Linux distros on my XP rig when it's up and running. And I came a step closer to that last night with the freeing up of a 8800GTX graphics card

kona0197

on Apr 09, 2014

Lubuntu is Ubuntu with LXDE as a desktop environment. Light on resources.

starkers

on Apr 09, 2014

kona0197

reply 24

Lubuntu is Ubuntu with LXDE as a desktop environment. Light on resources.

Thanks for that, I shall look into it later to check out my best options.

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