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January 10th 14, 10:34 PM
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OK so MS is giving up on their best OS Win XP Pro.
No more support. No more security essentials. Frapppppp to them! So, what free stuff is out there that will replace what MS is dropping? I plan to keep my Win XP Pro going until my PCs (several) bite the dust. (As an aside, others I know are still running Win 98 with no problems.) --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- 
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January 10th 14, 11:30 PM
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On 1/10/2014 4:34 PM, OldGuy wrote:
OK so MS is giving up on their best OS Win XP Pro. No more support. No more security essentials. Frapppppp to them! So, what free stuff is out there that will replace what MS is dropping? I plan to keep my Win XP Pro going until my PCs (several) bite the dust. (As an aside, others I know are still running Win 98 with no problems.) Oh man! I didn't like Windows until Windows 3.1 back in '93. So I have experience with Windows since then and I only skipped Vista. And I have been involved with computers and other OS since the 70's. And I didn't like XP at all until XP SP2. And since then XP became one of the most well polished OS of all time in history. Anything from Microsoft or anybody else just hasn't got there yet. And while this is a bit of hind side, I've been saying for many years that XP was the most popular and most used OS of all time. And yes, I still use it a lot. ;-) -- Bill Dell Latitude Slate Tablet 128GB SSD ('12 era) - Thunderbird v12 Intel Atom Z670 1.5GHz - 2GB RAM - Windows 8 Pro
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January 11th 14, 12:02 AM
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:34:41 -0800, OldGuy wrote:
So, what free stuff is out there that will replace what MS is dropping? I plan to keep my Win XP Pro going until my PCs (several) bite the dust. You might bite the dust from malware infection before your PCs do. (As an aside, others I know are still running Win 98 with no problems.) They should consider them selves lucky. What you say is like saying "others I know are still driving their cars without seatbelts and with no problems."
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January 11th 14, 01:45 AM
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Ken Blake, MVP was thinking very hard :
On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:34:41 -0800, OldGuy wrote: So, what free stuff is out there that will replace what MS is dropping? I plan to keep my Win XP Pro going until my PCs (several) bite the dust. You might bite the dust from malware infection before your PCs do. (As an aside, others I know are still running Win 98 with no problems.) They should consider them selves lucky. What you say is like saying "others I know are still driving their cars without seatbelts and with no problems." Ha. And people with cars that have seat-belts are not wearing them. The risky behaviour is all around us. But you can use any OS in a manor that has very little risk. And I have all kinds of protection on my Win 7 Pro and XP PCs (all with the latest updates) and I get to crash them (not for fun) so it all depends on what we are doing. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: ---
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January 11th 14, 03:30 AM
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From: "OldGuy"
OK so MS is giving up on their best OS Win XP Pro. No more support. No more security essentials. Frapppppp to them! So, what free stuff is out there that will replace what MS is dropping? I plan to keep my Win XP Pro going until my PCs (several) bite the dust. (As an aside, others I know are still running Win 98 with no problems.) It is Microsoft Security Essentials not "essence". Use Free Avira AntiVir or PAY for software. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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January 11th 14, 01:45 PM
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:02:33 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
wrote in On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:34:41 -0800, OldGuy wrote: So, what free stuff is out there that will replace what MS is dropping? I plan to keep my Win XP Pro going until my PCs (several) bite the dust. You might bite the dust from malware infection before your PCs do. Not in my experience. I've been running WinXP 7 years on several computers without _ever_ having updated. I've never had a malware infection. (probably because I use a firewall, MBAM, and a text email client on each machine) -- Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one. Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those newspapers delivered to your door every morning.
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January 11th 14, 01:45 PM
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 22:30:26 -0500, "David H. Lipman"
wrote in Use Free Avira AntiVir or PAY for software. Just curious, what pay ware AV would you recommend for an older machine running WinXP? -- Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one. Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those newspapers delivered to your door every morning.
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January 11th 14, 03:36 PM
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On 01/10/2014 09:30 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "OldGuy" OK so MS is giving up on their best OS Win XP Pro. No more support. No more security essentials. Frapppppp to them! So, what free stuff is out there that will replace what MS is dropping? I plan to keep my Win XP Pro going until my PCs (several) bite the dust. (As an aside, others I know are still running Win 98 with no problems.) It is Microsoft Security Essentials not "essence". Use Free Avira AntiVir or PAY for software. I thought it was a perfume but found this http://www.amazon.com/The-Essence-Se.../dp/B0006D5NMG
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January 11th 14, 07:40 PM
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From: "OldGuy"
OK so MS is giving up on their best OS Win XP Pro. No more support. No more security essentials. Frapppppp to them! So, what free stuff is out there that will replace what MS is dropping? I plan to keep my Win XP Pro going until my PCs (several) bite the dust. (As an aside, others I know are still running Win 98 with no problems.) It is Microsoft Security Essentials not "essence". Use Free Avira AntiVir or PAY for software. It was humor! Since Essentials is going away we are left with just the essence. --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: ---
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January 11th 14, 09:46 PM
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 11:40:22 -0800, OldGuy wrote:
From: "OldGuy" OK so MS is giving up on their best OS Win XP Pro. No more support. No more security essentials. Frapppppp to them! So, what free stuff is out there that will replace what MS is dropping? I plan to keep my Win XP Pro going until my PCs (several) bite the dust. (As an aside, others I know are still running Win 98 with no problems.) It is Microsoft Security Essentials not "essence". Use Free Avira AntiVir or PAY for software. It was humor! Since Essentials is going away we are left with just the essence. Microsoft Security Essentials is not going away. In Windows 8 it has just had its name changed to Windows Defender.
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January 12th 14, 01:24 PM
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From: "OldGuy"
From: "OldGuy" OK so MS is giving up on their best OS Win XP Pro. No more support. No more security essentials. Frapppppp to them! So, what free stuff is out there that will replace what MS is dropping? I plan to keep my Win XP Pro going until my PCs (several) bite the dust. (As an aside, others I know are still running Win 98 with no problems.) It is Microsoft Security Essentials not "essence". Use Free Avira AntiVir or PAY for software. It was humor! Since Essentials is going away we are left with just the essence. LOL - OK. It is humourous ;-) -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
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