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How long does WindowsXP have before it becomes unsupported?
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On 02/12/2013 23:05, Jeff T wrote:
How long does WindowsXP have before it becomes unsupported? The critical date is 8th April 2014 for Windows XP and Office 2003. after that date there won't be any patches or updates. this is the official statement: "On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will end support for the decade-old Windows XP. This means you will no longer receive updates, including security updates, for Windows XP from Microsoft. Support of Microsoft Office 2003 will also be ending on the same date." Good luck. |
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On 02/12/2013 23:05, Jeff T wrote:
How long does WindowsXP have before it becomes unsupported? you might get trade up deals from major brands: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/business/campaigns/get-modern?WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=Google_windows+xp+suppor t_Exact&CR_CC=200341068 Scroll down the above link to see what is available from HP, DELL, Samsung, Lenovo and others. |
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Jeff T wrote:
How long does WindowsXP have before it becomes unsupported? http://www.microsoft.com/lifecycle Use the alphabetical listing. Click on "W" to jump to the products starting with that letter. Look at the product, not a service pack for it. |
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Good Guy wrote:
On 02/12/2013 23:05, Jeff T wrote: How long does WindowsXP have before it becomes unsupported? you might get trade up deals from major brands: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/business/campaigns/get-modern?WT.srch=1&WT.mc_id=Google_windows+xp+suppor t_Exact&CR_CC=200341068 Scroll down the above link to see what is available from HP, DELL, Samsung, Lenovo and others. Trade up?? Does one consider Windows 8 or 7 a "trade up"? |
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"Jeff T"
jthoele @nospam.invalid wrote in message news:l7j3n4$dvt$1 @dont-email.me... How long does WindowsXP have before it becomes unsupported? I do not know "but" I have a windows '98' with all it IE Sp-1 and the last supported up and [running] So keep{ XP }up to data with its supported And maybe that XP be up and running For 10 years pass or more The unsupported Time |
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Jeff T typed: How long does WindowsXP have before it becomes unsupported? Manufacture support is meaningless to me. And I am puzzled why more don't understand this? Although when I start to worry is when user support drops down to nothing. And I don't see that happening to XP for about 25+ more years. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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In "BillW50" wrote:
Manufacture support is meaningless to me. And I am puzzled why more don't understand this? Although when I start to worry is when user support drops down to nothing. And I don't see that happening to XP for about 25+ more years. No more fixes for so-called "day zero" security holes that Microsoft is still finding, but that the world-wide community of nasty folks probably know all too well. -- St. Paul, MN |
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Bert typed: In "BillW50" wrote: Manufacture support is meaningless to me. And I am puzzled why more don't understand this? Although when I start to worry is when user support drops down to nothing. And I don't see that happening to XP for about 25+ more years. No more fixes for so-called "day zero" security holes that Microsoft is still finding, but that the world-wide community of nasty folks probably know all too well. You trust your OS to protect you against zero day security holes? I don't. I have other software that protects me against them. It doesn't make any sense to trust OS updates to protect you against them. As it is known that Microsoft can take up to 7 years to plug them. So I see no useful purpose to allow security OS updates to protect one. There are so many other better ways including some that foil all zero day attacks. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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In "BillW50" wrote:
You trust your OS to protect you against zero day security holes? I don't. I have other software that protects me against them. Trust one or the other. There are so many other better ways including some that foil all zero day attacks. All of 'em, huh? Well, good luck. -- St. Paul, MN |
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Bert typed: In "BillW50" wrote: You trust your OS to protect you against zero day security holes? I don't. I have other software that protects me against them. Trust one or the other. There are so many other better ways including some that foil all zero day attacks. All of 'em, huh? Well, good luck. Yup, one of them is called a sandbox. Ever hear of it? Whatever is in a sandbox stays there and can't get into your OS system. I have been running Windows since '93 and I have never been infected yet. Although I work on other computers all of the time and have cleaned them up. The only close call I had was in 2001 and I did a fresh install of Windows 2000 and all I did was to download all of the security updates from Microsoft. Luckily after I did I also installed an antivirus and did a scan before a reboot to install the updates. And a BOT (I wasn't behind a firewall back then) found my computer and slipped in a virus that would install on the next reboot. So the antivirus killed it before it got installed. I don't care what anybody else thinks, if I can stay clean for 20 years, I am sticking to my methods. If somebody can do better, I am listening. If they are worse, then why bother me. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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In "BillW50" wrote:
I don't care what anybody else thinks, if I can stay clean for 20 years, I am sticking to my methods. If somebody can do better, I am listening. If they are worse, then why bother me. During those 20 years, did you install the updates, patches, fixes and new versions of software distributed by Microsoft? Do you think that doing so was a waste of your time? -- St. Paul, MN |
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In "BillW50" wrote:
Yup, one of them is called a sandbox. Ever hear of it? Whatever is in a sandbox stays there and can't get into your OS system. Unless you run inside your sandbox all the time, you're still vulnerable to whatever your third-party protection doesn't know about yet. -- St. Paul, MN |
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On Monday, December 2, 2013 5:05:06 PM UTC-6, Jeff T wrote:
How long does WindowsXP have before it becomes unsupported? Absolutely no need to stress. XP will continue on until the Doh-Doh birds return. Andy |
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Bert typed: In "BillW50" wrote: I don't care what anybody else thinks, if I can stay clean for 20 years, I am sticking to my methods. If somebody can do better, I am listening. If they are worse, then why bother me. During those 20 years, did you install the updates, patches, fixes and new versions of software distributed by Microsoft? Do you think that doing so was a waste of your time? I thought that way until around '07 when Microsoft and Asus forced me to do otherwise. As Asus sold netbooks with just 4GB of disk space with XP SP2 on them. And Microsoft sold them a license to do so. So I blame both of them for this. And there was no way to install say SP3 without lots of trickery and external hardware. So I figured just making backups would be far faster and if it get infected, just restore. Oddly enough it never got infected from not doing security updates. This runs contrary to everything I have been told. So since I have a lot of computers, I decided to take half of them and not to update them. The other half I would and then see what happens. Oddly enough, none of them have any malware at all. The only difference is the updated ones sometimes got screwy. Meaning sometimes an update broke something. But the ones that wasn't updated run just fine like they always did. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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