Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: You can keep using XP for another year, but do you really want to?

[anuseems]

While clinging to the 11-year-old OS after Microsoft issues its last security patch in April is defensible, the security risks are going to keep mounting.

From Computerworld:

About those numbers: Net Applications states that in December, XP was still running on 29% of all desktop and laptop PCs. By some counts, XP still accounts for 32% of all Windows systems. That's a heck of a lot of users.

One reason users haven't switched is that Windows 8.x is garbage. There are others. One is that XP machines simply still do their job. I'm a big believer in the maxim, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," and many XP users believe that too.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246413/Steven_J._Vaughan_Nichols_You_can_keep_using_XP_for_another_year_but_do_you_really_want_to_

Edited February 20, 2014 by anuseems