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Been a while since I used XP.
I know many browsers will no longer run on XP. What else won't run anymore? And it stopped getting security updates. I would think that since it was around so long, there shouldn't be that many security flaws. Just curious, Andy |
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On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 11:02:34 -0800 (PST), Andy
wrote: Been a while since I used XP. I know many browsers will no longer run on XP. What else won't run anymore? And it stopped getting security updates. I would think that since it was around so long, there shouldn't be that many security flaws. Just curious, Andy I am still running XP on several machines. Firefox 47 and Internet Exploder 8 still run OK. A few things don't work like the version of Media Player that can talk to a Samsung TV and streaming Showtime but most stuff still runs OK. I put a 7 machine on the TV to deal with that. I also have troubles networking with the 7 machine. Seven will not talk to my W/98 at all and I can't pull files from the 7 machine from XP but the 7 machine will pull XP files so it is no big deal. |
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In message , Andy
writes: Been a while since I used XP. I know many browsers will no longer run on XP. What else won't run anymore? And it stopped getting security updates. I would think that since it was around so long, there shouldn't be that many security flaws. Just curious, Andy Nothing wont run "anymore"; whatever used to run, still does. The closest to "has stopped working" is indeed the web, in that many pages now rely on coding that older versions of browsers don't implement well. If you meant, what now has _versions_ that won't run under XP, then I'd say at least 50% of software that is still being developed - Office (Word etc.), Firefox, Chrome. Notable exceptions include IrfanView, Brother's Keeper, ... I don't buy a lot of new hardware these days, but I find a surprising amount _does_ still come with XP drivers. Major things like motherboards and graphics cards are tending not to, though. Why are you asking - just curiosity, or do you have a requirement? (FWIW, I - and, perhaps unsurprisingly, most here - still find XP quite usable; in my case, this XP is my main machine, though that isn't the case for all here.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off. - Albert Pierrepoint, in his 1974 autobiography. |
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On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 1:29:02 AM UTC-6, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Andy writes: Been a while since I used XP. I know many browsers will no longer run on XP. What else won't run anymore? And it stopped getting security updates. I would think that since it was around so long, there shouldn't be that many security flaws. Just curious, Andy Nothing wont run "anymore"; whatever used to run, still does. The closest to "has stopped working" is indeed the web, in that many pages now rely on coding that older versions of browsers don't implement well. If you meant, what now has _versions_ that won't run under XP, then I'd say at least 50% of software that is still being developed - Office (Word etc.), Firefox, Chrome. Notable exceptions include IrfanView, Brother's Keeper, ... I don't buy a lot of new hardware these days, but I find a surprising amount _does_ still come with XP drivers. Major things like motherboards and graphics cards are tending not to, though. Why are you asking - just curiosity, or do you have a requirement? (FWIW, I - and, perhaps unsurprisingly, most here - still find XP quite usable; in my case, this XP is my main machine, though that isn't the case for all here.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off. - Albert Pierrepoint, in his 1974 autobiography. I have been using Ubuntu Mate. I used to use XP and really liked it. Andy |
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