forced to alternative OS

"Ken Springer" schreef in bericht
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On 7/22/13 1:58 PM, Linea Recta wrote:
Support for security updates will end march next year I believe.
What alternatives would you suggest for my old PC (below), if I don't
want
to buy new hardware?
And, these Windows XP groups will disappear too I suppose?

Interestingly, when I had a Win98 machine still up and running, with
support "supposedly" long gone, I would get the occasional security
update. I have no idea why, but gut feeling is something similar will
happen with XP.


That would be great...


My personal justification for this feeling is the number of XP users, both
corporate and personal, will still be numerous enough that MS may not want
to pi$$ them off.

Regarding Linux, I was going to suggest you look into that as an
alternative, but I see someone else has also suggested that.

What you could do, Linux-wise, is to download and burn the Live CD's from
various distros, and run it from the DVD and RAM. That way you have time
to check things out before being forced into doing something quickly.


Exactly, that's the way to go.



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