Re: [OM] (OM) Computers

[Chuck Norcutt]

What you suggest is perfectly fine... as long as you never again get 
onto the internet.  If you do you may eventually be toast.  You might 
like to read this article 
<http://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-xp-end-of-life> but I'll explain 
the main danger point right here...

There is a lot of common code between various versions of Windows.  When 
Microsoft uncovers security holes in Win 7 or Win 8 they will issue 
patches for those systems.  The bad guys need only study the code change 
for Win 7/8 fixes and then inspect the XP code to see if the same bug is 
there.  There is a high probability that it will be.  But now they will 
know exactly what the security hole is (if they didn't before) and also 
that it will *never* be fixed.  You and several million other people who 
fail to upgrade will be sitting ducks and the low hanging fruit.  I 
don't want (and don't intend) to be there and you shouldn't either.  I 
advise you to pay the tax... either to Microsoft or Apple or someone 
else.  Maybe it's time to move to Linux if you don't want to pay the OS tax.

Chuck Norcutt


On 2/22/2014 2:21 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
>>
>> Microsoft is ending support for XP in April.
>>
>
> So why bother getting anything newer?  They'll just abandon that
> later on and you'll be back to buying something newer that they'll
> later abandon ad nauseum.  Just a technical version of a dog chasing
> it's tail.
>
> Stick with XP and get used to being a techno orphan.  You'll be much
> better off in the long run.
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro - Hunter S. Thompson
>
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