[AccessD] Future of Windows XP

XP has been Microsoft's best selling and surviving product but it just keeps going on and on. If they could they would send a virus of their own to corrupt every version so people would run out and buy something else. Everyone in the business wants XP dead as there is not a penny left to squeeze out of it...if you make a (near) perfect product your company will go broke waiting for all the computers, it runs on, to just quit.

Of course you are going to hear all sort of doom and gloom predictions but whether the opponents are speaking the truth, pumping up a news story, to frighten the masses or just want the public to open their wallets again and anti-up is the question. 

I will agree with the opponents that XP is a little tired and does need replacing but I hate everyone being herded like a bunch of dumb sheep.

Jim  

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Steele" <dbdoug at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 2:17:58 PM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Future of Windows XP

Jim, here is an article which has the opposite opinion about Windows XP
security:

http://www.zdnet.com/your-perilous-future-on-windows-xp-7000019721/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539
''

Here is the lead paragraph:

"You've been getting warned for ages about the impending end of support for
XP. Things are even worse than you've heard (especially if you run Internet
Explorer). Expect a flood of new vulnerabilities and no help for them."

Doug


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net> wrote:

>
>  Sorry, but I think your being naïve and silly<g>.
>
>  There's been plenty of announcement about it, so they've more then covered
> their butts on it.
>
>  I think when you'll hear a lot of screaming is when Office 365 drops
> support for the POP3 protocol.  Outlook 2003 and a bunch of other mail
> clients will no longer work with it.
>
>  Besides, XP is safer; all the hackers are now focused on Windows 7 and
> 8<g>.   XP has been patched and patched.   Don't know how many security
> holes are actually left in it.
>
> Jim.
>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 05:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Future of Windows XP
>
> I want to say that nobody replied to assertions in my post. I am really
> curious what the rest of this group thinks Microsoft will do in terms of
> security patches for Windows XP users left behind. Am I just being silly
> and naive to think that Microsoft would not dare such users dangling in the
> wind?
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